metgrid.exe problems

[jan]

One more thing:
Reduce your model domain, I am not sure, but it looks as it is larger than that of your input data.
Start without the nest and the mod_lev, start simple. When it works you can start making things complicate

[UproarinSonoran]

Check to make absolutely sure that the domain you are using does not extend beyond the grid area of the analysis/input data you are using.

I have run into this many times when going from a small regional domain to a continental-size domain or when I had used a portion of a global domain (ERA) and then tried to run a continental domain (NAM 218). The outer domain I chose went just off the edge of the actual NAM 218 domain. The model is expecting there to be data at those grid points you've identified in Domain Wizard / namelist.wps / GRIBFILE.* and if your analysis dataset you are trying to use as initial and boundary conditions is too small, this is exactly the error it gives.

-Nate

[ravi22]

hi,
Did you ever figure anything out about the missing fields error? I am having the same error, but with AWIP data. It says:

Processing domain 1 of 1
Processing 2014-07-11_00
FILE
WARNING: Field PRES has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(1,1)
WARNING: Field PSFC has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(1,1)
WARNING: Field PMSL has missing values at level 201300 at (i,j)=(1,1)
ERROR: Missing values encountered in interpolated fields. Stopping.

please help

thanks & regard
ravi

[mary49090]

Hi everyone !
Sometimes I have a problem with metgrid. When I run wrf (version 3.7) with dataset gfs in the first time I have error. In last time this is "not enough info for a p sfc computation". After that I repeat the prosses and all it is OK. I don't change anything. It is very strange. May be somebody deals with this situation.
(by the way, dataset is downloaded from nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl with some filter)

Thanks, Mary!

[gadelha]

Hi all,

I write this post simply to help other people that can have the same issue.

I was trying to run WPS with latlon grid of 10000 m resolution but I forgot that a should set DX and DY namelist in degrees, so I set DX=10000 and DY=10000 at namelist.wps file.When I'd executed metgrid.exe the following message had appeared:

+ /opt/sgi/mpt/mpt-2.10/bin/mpirun r1i2n0 06 /usr/bin/dplace -c 0-5 ./metgrid.exe
Processing domain 1 of 1
Processing 2017-01-18_00
FILE
WARNING: Field PRES has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field PRES has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,261)
WARNING: Field PRES has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,523)
WARNING: Field GHT has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field GHT has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,261)
WARNING: Field GHT has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,523)
WARNING: Field HGTTROP has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field TTROP has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field PTROPNN has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field PTROP has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field VTROP has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)
WARNING: Field UTROP has missing values at level 200100 at (i,j)=(405,1)

My mistake about that was to use latlon projection but set DX=DY=10000 meters at namelist.wps. Since I was using LATLON, I should use DX=DY=0.09 which corresponds to approximately 10000 meters.

Hope it help someone!