[RegCNET] tutorial question / post-processing

[Michael Notaro]

Thanks.  But my netcdf data file is empty, except for a header.
Why didn't it put the data into the nc file?

Mike

On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Moetasim Ashfaq wrote:

> Following error should be ignored while doing post-processing -  
> they have no
> effect on output.
> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
> ncdimid: ncid 6: Invalid dimension id or name
> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>
> Moet
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Michael Notaro <mnotaro at wisc.edu>:
>
>> Thanks for your email.  I initially tried 2002090100 and the post
>> processing crashed with this error:
>>
>> ........
>> Reading output:     2002083118
>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002083118    899946.0000000000                 3
>> Reading output:     2002090100
>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002090100    899952.0000000000                 4
>> WRITING CONTINUAL OUTPUT    899544.0000000000        2002081500
>> COMPUTING AVERAGE OUT FIELDS:           31           31           31
>>             31
>> xhravg=    899544.0000000000
>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>> ncdimid: ncid 6: Invalid dimension id or name
>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>> *ERROR* in putdef in grbtst
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?  I thought I was closely following the
>> tutorial, so I do not
>> understand why I get errors.  I know the output is OK since I can
>> view it in grads.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Moetasim Ashfaq wrote:
>>
>>> You are doing monthly average but your idate2 is set to 2002083121.
>>> For monthly
>>> average it should be set to 2002090100.
>>>
>>> Moet
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Michael Notaro <mnotaro at wisc.edu>:
>>>
>>>> Hello.  I have run the RegCM3 tutorial for July and August 2002  
>>>> over
>>>> Europe.
>>>> I have been unable to postprocess the output.
>>>>
>>>> In the output dir, data files were produced:
>>>>
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 88592000 Jun  5 15:40 ATM.2002070100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 87883264 Jun  5 18:02 ATM.2002080100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 63504000 Jun  5 15:40 RAD.2002070100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 62995968 Jun  5 18:02 RAD.2002080100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 11083528 Jun  5 15:40 SAV.2002080100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 11083528 Jun  5 18:02 SAV.2002090100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 42166656 Jun  5 15:40 SRF.2002070100
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 41997312 Jun  5 18:02 SRF.2002080100
>>>>
>>>> Now, I try to postprocess.  postproc.in says the following:
>>>>
>>>> 2002080100,     ! idate0 = First date in File (yymmddhh)
>>>> 2002080100,     ! idate1 = Start date for averaging and re-writing
>>>> 2002083121,     ! idate2 = End date for averaging and re-writing
>>>> 2,              ! iotype: 1=I*2 NetCDF; 2=r*4 NetCDF; 3=grads;
>>>> 4=vis5d
>>>> .false.,            ! plv
>>>> .false.,        !
>>>> .false.,        ! Write out header?
>>>> .false.,        ! Write out all RegCM data b/twn idate1 & idate2?
>>>> .false.,        ! Average RegCM data b/twn idate1 & idate2?
>>>> .false.,        ! Diurnali avg of RegCM data b/twn idate1 & idate2?
>>>> .true.,         ! Continually average ATM data b/twn idate1 &  
>>>> idate2?
>>>> -1.,            ! No. Days for continual averaging (-1=monthly;
>>>> 1=daily;5=5day)
>>>> '200208',       ! postproc output filename (not including type &  
>>>> ext)
>>>> '../Input',     ! ICBC directory
>>>> 'output',       ! RegCM Output directory
>>>> 'DOMAIN.INFO',  ! Domain Info Filename (from terrain)
>>>> 'OUT_HEAD',     ! Header File name (from RegCM)
>>>> '2002080100',   !  1st RegCM Output File Extension
>>>>
>>>> Next, I run postproc.x:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   ....
>>>> ....
>>>> Reading output:     2002083100
>>>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002083100     
>>>> 899928.0000000000                 4
>>>> Reading output:     2002083106
>>>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002083106     
>>>> 899934.0000000000                 1
>>>> Reading output:     2002083112
>>>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002083112     
>>>> 899940.0000000000                 2
>>>> Reading output:     2002083118
>>>> AVERAGING DATA:    2002083118     
>>>> 899946.0000000000                 3
>>>> DONE WRITING OUT DATA!!!
>>>> DONE!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It creates a netcdf file, but it is empty.
>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 notaro notaro 176 Jun  6 10:07 ATM200208AVG.nc
>>>>
>>>> [notaro at ccrcam PracticeRun]$ ncdump -h *nc
>>>> netcdf ATM200208AVG {
>>>> // global attributes:
>>>>                  :domxmin = -4.888416f ;
>>>>                  :domxmax = 32.60123f ;
>>>>                  :domymin = 37.03973f ;
>>>>                  :domymax = 54.29552f ;
>>>>                  :domzmin = 1050.f ;
>>>>                  :domzmax = 0.f ;
>>>>
>>>> What did I do wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes, if I change some parameters in postproc.in, I get this
>>>> error:
>>>> COMPUTING AVERAGE OUT FIELDS:            1             
>>>> 1            1
>>>>              1
>>>> xhravg=    899208.0000000000
>>>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>>>> ncdimid: ncid 6: Invalid dimension id or name
>>>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>>>> ncvarid: ncid 6: Variable not found
>>>> *ERROR* in putdef in grbtst
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>