unable to find requested variable: u_west

[youngstor]

Hi ROMS community,

I am running ROMS with '

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#define BULK_FLUXES

' turned on, and I am supplying it with the forcing file '

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roms_narr_Jan2012.nc

', which contains the following variables:

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>> netcdf_load roms_narr_Jan2012.nc
>> whos
  Name             Size                  Bytes  Class     Attributes

  Uwind          300x120x25            7200000  double              
  Vwind          300x120x25            7200000  double              
  lat            300x120                288000  double              
  lon            300x120                288000  double              
  wind_time       25x1                     200  double  

However, when I ran ROMS, I came across the following error:

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GET_NGFLD   - unable to find requested variable: u_west
               in file: /nas/xyang44/coawst/Projects/test_indv_grd_full_run/roms_narr_Jan2012.nc

The boundary file '

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BRYNAME == /nas/xyang44/coawst/Projects/test_indv_grd_full_run/coawst_bdy.nc

'only has the following variables and doesn't have 'u_west':

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>> netcdf_load coawst_bdy.nc
>> whos
  Name              Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes

  salt_east       120x30            14400  single              
  salt_south      300x30            36000  single              
  salt_time         1x1                 8  double              
  temp_east       120x30            14400  single              
  temp_south      300x30            36000  single              
  temp_time         1x1                 8  double              
  u_east          120x30            14400  single              
  u_south         299x30            35880  single              
  ubar_east       120x1               480  single              
  ubar_south      299x1              1196  single              
  v2d_time          1x1                 8  double              
  v3d_time          1x1                 8  double              
  v_east          119x30            14280  single              
  v_south         300x30            36000  single              
  vbar_east       119x1               476  single              
  vbar_south      300x1              1200  single              
  zeta_east       120x1               960  double              
  zeta_south      300x1              2400  double              
  zeta_time         1x1                 8  double 

I appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Xiufeng

[kate]

It's odd that it's looking for a boundary field in a forcing file. Still, what boundary conditions are you asking for? Should the west be a wall? Also, is this new coawst or old coawst? Did you provide LBC to new coawst in the ocean.in file?

[hbzong]

It seems that you use Matlab scripts in the directory roms_clm of COAWST to generate boundary file. In their case, west and north boundary are close boundaries. You need to edit create_roms_netcdf_bndry_mw.m and updatbdry_coawst_mw.m to write west boundary informations in netCDF file.

[youngstor]

Hi Kate and hbzong,

You guys are right. I was using the scripts from the COAWST, and it didn't have BC on west and north ends.

Thanks for your help!

Xiufeng

It seems that you use Matlab scripts in the directory roms_clm of COAWST to generate boundary file. In their case, west and north boundary are close boundaries. You need to edit create_roms_netcdf_bndry_mw.m and updatbdry_coawst_mw.m to write west boundary informations in netCDF file.