DEFGRID error

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akramzali
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DEFGRID error

Post by akramzali »

I want to calculate for one year run time, but there is this error:
*ERROR* runset: Numb meteo grids exceed DEFGRID limit
so I increased Sub-grid Size in: Advanced / Configuration Setup / Sub-grid Size and Vertical Coordinate, but the error has exist yet.
please guide me.
thanks so much
ariel.stein
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by ariel.stein »

There is a maximum of 12 meteorological files that you can use in one hysplit run. However, if you have more than 12 files you can concatenate them to get a lower number.
For instance if your files are weekly files try concatenating them with the cat command (linux) or type command (windows):
linux:
rm file.month
cat file1 > file.month
cat file2 >> file.month
cat file3 >> file.month
cat file4 >> file.month
cat file5 >> file.month\

windows:
del file.month
type file1 > file.month
type file2 >> file.month
type file3 >> file.month
type file4 >> file.month
type file5 >> file.month
akramzali
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by akramzali »

Thanks for your kindly attention.
I concatenate weekly gdas file of one year and now there are 12 gdas file, every month one file. When I set to run, it is written that calculation started but nothing is happened.
ariel.stein
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by ariel.stein »

Start trying with only the first month. You might not have enough memory in your machine to handle the data.
akramzali
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by akramzali »

I used a system with 26 GB free memory but it is same as past with 6 GB free memory and the full message is:

MGMIN set to MAX for meteorology grid: 360
configuration corrected, continuing ...
calculation started ... please be patient
ariel.stein
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by ariel.stein »

Could you please try using a shorter time period in the meteorological files (say 3 months concatenated) ?
Also, could you please send me your CONTROL file?
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by akramzali »

I used a high performance computer and it has worked. As you mentioned the problem was the machine to handle the data.
Thanks so much.
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by gtyree »

I also want to concatenate multiple metorologiacal data files for faster HYSPLIT computation. Could you concatenate multiple ARL files in R?
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Re: DEFGRID error

Post by ariel.stein »

If R has a function that is similar to the cat command in linux it should work.
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