[idvusers] making WRF output CF compliant

• To: idvusers <idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: [idvusers] making WRF output CF compliant
• From: Brian Mapes <bmapes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 23:04:13 +0000

Does anyone have some one-line templates for converting wrf output to 
IDV-friendly netCDF files? 
Preferably with a set of basic weather variables but not a zillion internal 
model fields. 

Such an old question, so much on the Web, yet every solution seems to require a 
bunch of time and effort. 

This looked promising
http://foehn.colorado.edu/wrfout_to_cf
But for me it creates the inscrutable errors below and no results. 
No idea what to do next, no hours and hours available to study it. 

Anyone have a workable solution? 
Thanks for any tips! 

Brian Mapes



$ sudo /usr/local/bin/NCL/bin/ncl 'file_in="1hr_Out/wrfout_d02_2009-08-08_08"' 
'file_out="wrfpost.nc"' wrfout_to_cf.ncl
 Copyright (C) 1995-2013 - All Rights Reserved
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 NCAR Command Language Version 6.1.2
 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
warning:Unable to Get System Resource File Name?
warning:Unable to load System Resource File (null)
fatal:GetSysAppDir:Unable to get a default value for the system App Resource 
directory
warning:["Resources.c":734]:Unable to set appSysDir to default value - Using 
NULL
fatal:GetSysAppDir:Unable to get a default value for the system App Resource 
directory
warning:["Resources.c":734]:Unable to set appSysDir to default value - Using 
NULL
warning:Unable to Get System Resource File Name?
warning:WorkstationClassInitialize:Unable to access rgb color database - named 
colors unsupported:[errno=2]
NDV_COLORMAP_PATH environment variable not set:
        defaulting to .:$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/colormaps
warning:["Palette.c":1844]:NhlLoadColormapFiles: Invalid directory encountered 
in colormap path specification

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