CMAQv5.3 POST block_extract

Hi, can anyone tell me where does the output file (OUTFILE) get stored from block_extract?
I see the program runs without error (I believe) with the following on the screen.

Compiler is set to intel

 This program uses the EPA-AREAL/MCNC-EnvPgms/BAMS Models-3      
 I/O Applications Programming Interface, [I/O API] which is      
 built on top of the netCDF I/O library (Copyright 1993, 1996    
 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata         
 Program) and the PVM parallel-programming library (from         
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory).                                 
 Copyright (C) 1992-2002 MCNC,                                   
 (C) 1992-2013 Carlie J. Coats, Jr.,                             
 (C) 2003-2012 Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, and   
 (C) 2014-2019 UNC Institute for the Environment.                
 Released under the GNU LGPL  License, version 2.1.  See URL     
                                                                 
     https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html     
                                                                 
 for conditions of use.                                          
                                                                 
 ioapi-3.2: $Id: init3.F90 120 2019-06-21 14:18:20Z coats $
 Version with PARMS3.EXT/PARAMETER::MXVARS3= 2048
 netCDF version 4.6.1 of Sep 20 2019 20:21:18 $
  
  
 Missing environment variable EXECUTION_ID
 Value for SDATE not defined; returning default:  0
 WARNING: SDATE not specified; using file(s) start date
 Value for STIME not defined; returning default:  0
 WARNING: STIME not specified; using 000000
 Value for NSTEPS not defined; returning default:  0
 WARNING: NSTEPS not specified; using file end time
 Value for LOCOL:  14
 Value for HICOL:  26
 Value for LOROW:  15
 Value for HIROW:  27
 Value for LOLEV:  1
 Value for HILEV:  1
 Value for OUTFILE:  'new_sample_block_extract.txt'
 Value for OUTFILE:  'new_sample_block_extract.txt'
 Value for TIME_ZONE:  'GMT'
 Value for TIME_ZONE:  'GMT'
 Value for OUTFORMAT:  'IOAPI'
 Value for OUTFORMAT:  'IOAPI'



 Value for M3_FILE_1:  '/home/ytang/jjoshi/cmaq_test/CMAQv5.3/data/POST/COMBINE_ACONC_v53_intel_Bench_2016_12SE1_201607.nc'
 Value for M3_FILE_1:  '/home/ytang/jjoshi/cmaq_test/CMAQv5.3/data/POST/COMBINE_ACONC_v53_intel_Bench_2016_12SE1_201607.nc'
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 "M3_FILE_1" opened as OLD:READ-ONLY   
 File name "/home/ytang/jjoshi/cmaq_test/CMAQv5.3/data/POST/COMBINE_ACONC_v53_intel_Bench_2016_12SE1_201607.nc"
 File type GRDDED3 
 Execution ID "????????????????"
 Grid name "2016_12SE1"
 Dimensions: 80 rows, 100 cols, 1 lays, 134 vbles
 NetCDF ID:     65536  opened as READONLY            
 Starting date and time  2016183:000000 (0:00:00   July 1, 2016)
 Timestep                          010000 (1:00:00 hh:mm:ss)
 Maximum current record number        48
 
 --->> Normal Completion of program BLOCK_EXTRACT
 Program BLOCK_EXTRACT    completed successfully

I am not sure what’s happening here to not get the outfile written!
Thanks.

It seems you are specifying your output file (new_sample_block_extract.txt) without an absolute path, so the file should be written to the same directory where you are invoking the run script. To write the file to a different location, use the full path when setting OUTFILE, e.g. “setenv OUTFILE /home/ytang/jjoshi/cmaq_test/CMAQv5.3/data/POST/new_sample_block_extract.txt”

Thanks, but it didn’t write there too! But giving full path as you suggested, wrote the file!

Thanks.