Prevent out-of-domain wx model runs

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A diagnostic wind model developed for use in wildland fire modeling.

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Prevent out-of-domain wx model runs #141

Open nwagenbrenner opened 8 years ago

nwagenbrenner commented 8 years ago

I just accidentally selected NOMADS-HIRES-NMM-AK-5-KM for a TX domain. A wx model file was downloaded and I didn't get an error until I started the simulation. After I started the simulation, I just got "Unhandled exception."

Can we change this so we check the extents of the wx models like we do for SRTM data and not allow users to choose wx models outside of their bounds? At the least, we should provide some useful info about why the simulation failed.

ksshannon commented 8 years ago

Yes, assuming we can gather the grid data and store it in WINDNINJA_DATA.