Use new RDA download APIs; was: Meteorological data missing for 2021 onwards

[daterma]

GIS4WRF Issue

ds083.3 meteorological data in the Dataset> Met menu does not allow to download data for the year 2021 and part of 2020.

I manually downloaded the data NCEP GDAS 0.25 Degree Analysis Grids for 2021 on at the following link https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.3/index.html#sfol-wl-/data/ds083.3?g=2021.

WRF Issue

With this data I ran Geogrib, Ungrib, Metgrid and Real without problems, while Run WRF gave me the following error: Quilting with 1 groups of 0 I/O tasks. Ntasks in X 2 , ntasks in Y 2 ************************************* Configuring physics suite 'conus' mp_physics: 0* 0* cu_physics: 0* 0* ra_lw_physics: 4 4 ra_sw_physics: 4 4 bl_pbl_physics: 2 2 sf_sfclay_physics: 2 2 sf_surface_physics: 2 2 (* = option overrides suite setting) ************************************* WRF V4.0 MODEL ************************************* Parent domain ids,ide,jds,jde 1 31 1 31 ims,ime,jms,jme -4 22 -4 22 ips,ipe,jps,jpe 1 15 1 15 ************************************* DYNAMICS OPTION: Eulerian Mass Coordinate alloc_space_field: domain 1 , 27804260 bytes allocated RESTART run: opening wrfrst_d01_2021-01-01_00_00_00 for reading -------------- FATAL CALLED --------------- program wrf: error opening wrfrst_d01_2021-01-01_00_00_00 for reading ------------------------------------------- System Information - OS: Windows 10 - QGIS: 3.22.2

[daterma]

Any ideas to fix it? Thanks

[dmey]

You are repoting two uncorrelated issues. I can have a look at the first next week --sorry no time this week. The second seems a WRF configuration issue, not something to do with GIS4WRF. I would recommend checking how to configure namelists in the WRF users' guide. If you are still having issues after that, try to ask someone on the WRF & MPAS-A Support Forum.

[daterma]

OK, thanks a lot. I await your information on the first problem.

[letmaik]

gis4wrf uses RDA's API to query datasets which includes their start/end dates. I attached the output for https://rda.ucar.edu/apps/metadata/ds083.3 which has enddate at maximum in 2020. So this is clearly an issue with RDA and I suggest reporting the issue to NCAR. There's nothing we can do from our side.

output.txt

[letmaik]

Correction: The API we use currently seems to have been replaced by a new one in RDA that is JSON-based. The old API is still functional but is not updated with new data anymore. So the solution would be to transition gis4wrf to the new API: https://rda.ucar.edu/#!apps_api_desc

[daterma]

Thanks for the support. Do we have to wait for GIS4WRF update?

[letmaik]

No, go to Simulation -> Data tab and import your own data with "Use Custom Dataset" at the bottom.

[letmaik]

@daterma The new release is out now and uses the new RDA API. If you find a bug, please open a new issue. Thanks again for reporting!