[RegCNET] tutorial question / post-processing

[Moetasim Ashfaq]

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
> >>
> >>
> 
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