Dear RegCM's users,

I am trying and running RegCM 4.1 with the SST data from ERA-Interim at 1.5° resolution.

I have downloaded data directly from the ERA Interim website. The downloaded file has the following attributes:

ncdump -h sstERAIN.2004_2005.nc 
netcdf sstERAIN.2004_2005 {
dimensions:
longitude = 240 ;
latitude = 121 ;
time = UNLIMITED ; // (2924 currently)
variables:
float longitude(longitude) ;
longitude:units = "degrees_east" ;
longitude:long_name = "longitude" ;
float latitude(latitude) ;
latitude:units = "degrees_north" ;
latitude:long_name = "latitude" ;
int time(time) ;
time:units = "hours since 1900-01-01 00:00:0.0" ;
time:long_name = "time" ;
short sstk(time, latitude, longitude) ;
sstk:scale_factor = 0.000600706197210905 ;
sstk:add_offset = 287.908701051615 ;
sstk:_FillValue = -32767s ;
sstk:missing_value = -32767s ;
sstk:units = "K" ;
sstk:long_name = "Sea surface temperature" ;

// global attributes:
:Conventions = "CF-1.0" ;
:history = "2012-03-26 08:46:58 GMT by mars2netcdf-0.92" ;
}


I have modified the subroutine mod_sst_ersst.f90:

- with regards to the name of the input file which covers the period of interest (2004-2005)
- to change varname from "sst" to "sstk" 

But I am not sure whether the data file has the correct format as I get an error when executing sst:

The error I get looks like:

Cannot get sstk  from file
NetCDF: Not a valid ID                                                         
  
ERROR READ SST

Does anyone have any idea why I get this error?

Many thanks by advance for your response.

Best regards,

Beatrice MOREL

Energy, Electronics and Process Lab 
Unit EA 4079 



 


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