Difference between revisions of "7. Retrieve ECMWF fields for FLEXPART"

Revision as of 11:28, 18 February 2013

Uses number of fortran scripts which are run on MARS.

Need to copy the following directory and files to your home directory on ecgate:

cp -r /home/ms/sbc/flex_extract_ecgate_V4/ YourDestination

List of files:

flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate
extract_ecmwf_ftpbase
seq_control.V4
seq_extract.V4
submit
source.tar

Edit the times in the file:

seq_control.V4

Check that the file flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate contains the following:

-----------------------------------
BEGIN: modification of config file
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cat <<EOF >CONTROL_ERA
DAY1 YYYYMMDD1
DAY2 YYYYMMDD2
DTIME 3
FORCE_EPS 0
FORCE_EI 0
M_GRID 100  
M_LEFT -17800
M_LOWER -9000
M_UPPER 9000
M_RIGHT 18100
M_LEVEL 91
M_RESOL 255
M_GAUSS 1
M_ACCURACY 24
M_OMEGA 0
M_OMEGADIFF 0
M_SMOOTH 0
M_ADDPAR /27/28/173/186/187/188/235/139/39
M_FORMAT GRIB2
GATEWAY ecaccess.ecmwf.int
DESTINATION flexpart (or change to your 
ECSTORAGE 1
ECTRANS 1
ECFSDIR ectmp:/${USER}/oper_YYYY_MM/
MAILOPS ${USER}
MAILFAIL ${USER}
EXEDIR .
SOURCECODE ecgate:flex_extract_ecgate_V4
EOF   
-----------------------------------
- END: modification of config file
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Copy the template file flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate to extract_ecmwf_ftpbase

cp flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate extract_ecmwf_ftpbase

Run the job using:

./submit

Check your job:

Check flexpart documentation on website to see how to generate files for flexpart, for example for nested sub-domain

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