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(Solved) negative Hourly precipitation and decrease in RAINNC

JSY

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Hi, all

I'm running an ideal case and have successfully executed ideal.exe and wrf.exe.
However, I noticed a decrease in RAINNC, which means there is negative hourly precipitation.
Is this natural? How should I interpret negative precipitation values?

The values are quite large, so I can't easily ignore them.

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I used the original versions of namelist.input and input_sounding.
 

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Hi,
Apologies for the delay. The reason you're seeing this behavior is due to the bucket_mm setting you have in your namelist. When this option is used, the array RAINNC will be 'emptied' and start to be 'refilled,' so to speak.
 
Thank you, the problem has been solved!

Now I know that I have to compute the precipitation by using the code like Rain = I_RAIN(N)C*bucket_mm + RAIN(N)C
because bucket_mm separates RAIN(N)C into RAIN(N)C and I_RAIN(N)C

Thanks
 
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