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Plan on running MM5 later with 3D and SFC FDDA?

Download a test dataset: ftp://ftp.ucar.edu/mesouser/MM5V3/TESTDATA/JAN00.TAR.gz

Inside the test dataset listed above, you will find the following files:

JAN00/NCEP_GRIB.200001
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_00
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_06
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_12
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_18
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_00
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_06
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_12
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_18
JAN00/obs:2000-01-26_00
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_00
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_03
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_06
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_09
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_12
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_15
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_18
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_21
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_00
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_03
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_06
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_09
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_12
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_15
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_18
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_21
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-26_00

The highlighted files are the ones of interest.
The NCEP_GRIB.200001 file is an analysis file that can be used as input to REGRID.

The obs* files contain upper-air AND surface data, while the surface_obs_r* files contain ONLY surface data (i.e., surface data in the surface_obs_r* files are DUPLICATED in the obs* files).

The advantage of this, is that if you are NOT interested in creating the SFCFDDA_DOMAIN1 file, the obs* contain all the information needed and you do not needed the surface_obs_r* files.

Below is an extract from the little_r namelist.input file. Listed are the settings you need to change / pay attention to.


&record1
 start_year                  =  2000
 start_month                 =    01
 start_day                   =    24
 start_hour                  =    00
 end_year                    =  2000
 end_month                   =    01
 end_day                     =    26
 end_hour                    =    00
 interval                    = 21600/

&record2
 fg_filename                 = '../REGRID/regridder/REGRID_DOMAIN1'
 obs_filename                = './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_00'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_06'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_12'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-24_18'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_00'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_06'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_12'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-25_18'
                               './
JAN00/obs:2000-01-26_00'
 sfc_obs_filename            = './JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_00'

                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_03'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_06'

                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_09'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_12'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_15'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_18'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-24_21'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_00'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_03'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_06'

                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_09'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_12'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_15'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_18'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-25_21'
                               './
JAN00/surface_obs_r:2000-01-26_00'

/

 &record7
 use_first_guess             = .TRUE.
 f4d                         = .TRUE.
 intf4d                      =  10800


The "interval" parameter in record1 needs to be the same interval as in the REGRID_DOMAIN1 file and the input data used in "obs_filename".

The "intf4d" parameter in record7 needs to be the same interval as the "sfc_obs_filename".

"sfc_obs_filename" is ONLY used if "f4d" is TRUE.


This will create the following files:

  LITTLE_R_DOMAIN1
        Needed as input for INTERPF
 
  SFC_FDDA_DOMAIN1

        Needed as input for MM5 if SFC FDDA is used

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