Issues with importing WRF 4.6.1 wrfout into Vapor

Hello,
i am running some experiments with WRF 4.6.1 for Hurricane Milton using moving nest (1.5 km grid spacing(

I uploaded wrfout data into latest version of VAPOR (MAC) but i cannot get any acceptable visualization of the very same variable:

i am getting just a line…see figure attached.

Can you please advice?

Thank you very much,

All the best

Antonio Parodi (CIMA Research Foundation)

Hi Antonio,

Looks like a coordinate problem. Can you provide a sample file that I can look at?

Thanks,
Scott

Hello
here it is the sample file (link valid for 3 days)

thank you for your help

All the best
Antonio

Hi Antonio, just letting you know that I have the file and am looking into it.

Good morning Scott, thank you for your time devoted to this problem and for your help, best regards

No problem Antonio. I believe the problem lies with the value for the STAND_LON attribute in your file. This determines the alignment of your grid’s projection, and currently has a value of 1.e+20f.

I’m not sure if this is the correct value for your case, but when I set it to -90.67507 (the same value as CEN_LON) with the NCO command below, I get the rendering of CLDFRA below which seems reasonable. What do you think?

ncatted -O -a STAND_LON,global,o,f,-90.67507 ~/Downloads/wrfout_d02_2024-10-05_05\:30\:00 -o ~/Downloads/newStandLon.wrf

*ETA - typo in NCO command

Good evening, thank you very much, i will install nco on my laptop and i will try to use the nco command you suggested. I will inform you tomorrow. Best regards


Dear Scott it is working! thanks a lot All the best

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Dear Scott, there is a new issue, i am trying to visualize the wrfout
file that i sent you as an example but very often vapor crashes when i
am doing isosurface rendering of QRAIN or REFL_10CM, especially if i am trying to zoom in or out. Do you have any suggestion about this problem? where can i find the log file of the crash? thanks you best regards

Hi Antonio, this might be platform dependent. I can’t reproduce the crash on my development computer with some rudimentary tests. What OS are you using, and do you have a session file that you can share so I can match the parameters you’re using?