RIP Tutorial : Run ripdp

RIP (and RIP4), does not read MM5 data directly. The RIPDP step (RIP Data Preparation), prepares the MM5 output and places the model data in a format that RIP can use.

Since a very large number of data files are created during this step, it is a good idea to place them in a directory of their own:
mkdir TUT_DATA

Edit ripdp_sample.in

- This namelist is used to specify the variables and times to be prepared for RIP.
- This is an optional namelist.
- If you do not use this namelist, all variables at all time in your input file will be prepared for RIP.

Run ripdp by typing

ripdp [-n namelist-file] model-data-set-name data-file-1 data-file-2 data-file-3 ...

example: ripdp -n ripdp_sample.in TUT_DATA/myCASE ../MM5/Run/MMOUT_DOMAIN1

where:
	namelist-file	namelist (ripdp_sample.in) file you have just edit this namelist file is optional
	model-data-set-name	RIP data that you are preparing. In the example below we will write all RIP data files to the TUT_DATA directory we created. All the created files will have myCASE as a prefix.
	data-file-1, 2, 3, ..	MM5 data files you want to view with RIP These files MUST be of the same type

This command will produce some standard output, if successful, the last few lines of output will typically look something like:

Finished reading data for this time.

******* No more datasets *******

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We're outta here like Vladimir !!
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Under your TUT_DATA directory, you should now have a list of newly created RIP data files.