# Error with AG sector -- creating GENTPRO files for 2015? **URL:** \ **Category:** SMOKE\ **Created:** [May 3, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309 "2021-05-03T19:14:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asmontgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asmontgomery](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/asmontgomery)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/1 "2021-05-03T19:14:50Z")
Hello, I’m trying to create spin up emissions for December 2015 using SMOKE 2016 beta platform. I’m trying to run the AG script, but I have been running into issues. I tried recreating the ATPRO\_HOURLY\_NCF using the ncl script included in the platform (create\_gentpro\_file\_for\_custom\_year.ncl), however, whenever I run the AG script in the nonpoint sector, I get the error warning in this file stating that I have the wrong dates. logfile: /SMOKE.EMF/2016\_beta/2016ff\_16j/intermed/ag/logs/temporal\_ag\_dec\_2016ff\_16j\_20151201.log ``` PROCTPRO: TREF type "MET-BASED " active reference count= 1109520 File "ATPRO_MONTHLY" opened for input on unit: 92 /projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/amptpro_general_2011platform_tpro_monthly_6nov2014_30nov2018_nf_v9 PROCTPRO/CSVPROF : file "ATPRO_MONTHLY" processed: 292 active data-rows 12 fields File "ATPRO_WEEKLY" opened for input on unit: 92 /projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/amptpro_general_2011platform_tpro_weekly_6nov2014_09sep2016_v2 PROCTPRO/CSVPROF : file "ATPRO_WEEKLY" processed: 1 active data-rows 7 fields File "ATPRO_HOURLY" opened for input on unit: 92 /projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/amptpro_general_2011platform_tpro_hourly_6nov2014_24jul2017_v5 PROCTPRO/CSVPROF : file "ATPRO_HOURLY" processed: 2 active data-rows 24 fields Value for HOURLY_TPROF_BASE: 'MONTH' Value for HOURLY_TPROF_BASE: 'MONTH' "ATPRO_HOURLY_NCF" opened as OLD:READ-ONLY File name "/projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/Gentpro_TPRO_HOUR_HOURLY_BASH_NH3.agNH3_bash_2015j_12US2_smk37.ncf" File type GRDDED3 Execution ID "????????????????" Grid name "" Dimensions: 3108 rows, 1 cols, 1 lays, 5 vbles NetCDF ID: 131072 opened as READONLY Starting date and time 2014365:000000 (0:00:00 Dec. 31, 2014) Timestep 010000 (1:00:00 hh:mm:ss) Maximum current record number 8840 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine RDTFLAG Time step not available in file ATPRO_HOURLY_NCF for variable COUNTIES M3WARN: DTBUF 16:00:00 Nov 30, 2015 (2015334:160000) *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine PROCTPRO Could not READ3("TPRO_HOUR","COUNTIES",...) Date and time 16:00:00 Nov 30, 2015 (2015334:160000) ``` Could someone help me out with this error? Thanks! Anastasia ---
**Author:** ![cjcoats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cjcoats](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/cjcoats)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/2 "2021-05-03T19:23:27Z")
It looks like this file potentially has hourly timesteps from 2014365:000000 through 2016002:0700. A quick check would to be to run M3Tools program [_m3stat_](https://cjcoats.github.io/ioapi/M3STAT.html) on it to see whether statistics are reported for this date&time, 2015334:160000 (or whether there is some “gap” in the file). ---
**Author:** ![asmontgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asmontgomery](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/asmontgomery)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/3 "2021-05-03T19:32:31Z")
Thank you for your quick reply! So when I ran m3stat on this file, this is the output: ``` m3stat 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 and Carlie J. Coats, Jr., and 2003-2006 Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC and released under the GNU LGPL License, version 2.1. See URL http://www.baronams.com/products/ioapi/LGPL.txt for conditions of use. Library release tag: $JDate: 2010068 $ $Id: @(#) ioapi library version 3.1 $ Version with PARMS3.EXT/PARAMETER::MXVARS3= 2048 netCDF version 4.6.1 of Oct 23 2018 10:59:04 $ Missing environment variable EXECUTION_ID Program M3STAT to compute statistics of selected variables from a user-specified GRIDDED, BOUNDARY, CUSTOM, IDDATA, or SPARSE-MATRIX Models-3 file. You need to have assigned a logical name to the physical file name of the input file, and optionally the report file according to Models-3 conventions, using the operation "setenv ". You will have the choice of either the default analysis, which computes statistics for the variables in the file, or customized analysis in which you select lists of variables to be analyzed, and the thresholds to be applied to each. USAGE: m3stat [INFILE [REPORTFILE]] [DEFAULT] (and then answer the prompts). Program copyright (C) 1992-2002 MCNC and Carlie J. Coats, Jr. and (C) 2002-2010 Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC Released under Version 2 of the GNU General Public License. See enclosed GPL.txt, or URL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Comments and questions are welcome and can be sent to Carlie J. Coats, Jr. coats@baronams.com Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC. 1021 Main Campus Drive, Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27606 See URL http://www.baronams.com/products/ioapi/AA.html#tools Program version: $Id:: m3stat.f 966 2011-05-26 14:24:01Z coats@borel $ Value for PROMPTFLAG not defined;returning default: TRUE Enter logical name for INPUT FILE [INFILE] >>in Value for IOAPI_CHECK_HEADERS not defined;returning default: FALSE "in" opened as OLD:READ-ONLY File name "/projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/Gentpro_TPRO_HOUR_HOURLY_BASH_NH3.agNH3_bash_2015j_12US2_smk37.ncf" File type GRDDED3 Execution ID "????????????????" Grid name "" Dimensions: 3108 rows, 1 cols, 1 lays, 5 vbles NetCDF ID: 65536 opened as READONLY Starting date and time 2014365:000000 (0:00:00 Dec. 31, 2014) Timestep 010000 (1:00:00 hh:mm:ss) Maximum current record number 8840 Value for PROMPTFLAG not defined;returning default: TRUE Enter logical name for REPORT FILE, or "NONE" [REPORT] >>out File "out" opened for output on unit: 99 /projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016_beta/ge_dat/temporal/out.txt Value for PROMPTFLAG not defined;returning default: TRUE Do you want the default analysis? (Y/N) [Y] >>Y Returning value TRUE for query: "Do you want the default analysis?" The list of variables in file "in" is: COUNTIES (n/a): County FIPS code HRLSRC (n/a): Hourly total by source DAYTOT (n/a): Daily total by source MONTOT (n/a): Monthly total by source ANNTOT (n/a): Annual total by source Value for PROMPTFLAG not defined;returning default: TRUE Enter starting date (YYYYDDD) for run [2014365] >> Using default 2014365 Enter starting time (HHMMSS) for run [0] >> Using default 0 Enter duration (HHMMSS) for run [88400000] >> Using default 88400000 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine RDTFLAG Time step not available in file in for variable COUNTIES M3WARN: DTBUF 0:00:00 Dec. 31, 2014 *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine M3STAT:STATGRID Read failure: file in variable COUNTIES Date and time 0:00:00 Dec. 31, 2014 (2014365:000000) ``` Maybe I used m3stat wrong ---
**Author:** ![bbaek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.cmascenter.org/bbaek/32/22_2.png) [@bbaek](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/bbaek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/4 "2021-05-03T19:38:04Z")
> [@asmontgomery](#): > > `ATPRO_HOURLY_NCF` Looks like your ATPRO\_HOURLY\_NCF does not cover your modeling period. You may need to generate new ATPRO\_HOURLY\_NCF that includes your modeling period using Gentpro utility program in SMOKE. ---
**Author:** ![asmontgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asmontgomery](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/asmontgomery)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/5 "2021-05-03T19:39:05Z")
Hello, I tried using the “create\_gentpro\_file\_for\_custom\_year.ncl” to do that – is there a different tool in SMOKE that I should use? ---
**Author:** ![bbaek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.cmascenter.org/bbaek/32/22_2.png) [@bbaek](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/bbaek)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/6 "2021-05-03T19:51:11Z")
Yes, it is called “Gentpro”. Check out the details from the user’s guide. [https://www.cmascenter.org/smoke/documentation/4.8.1/html/ch05s03s05.html](https://www.cmascenter.org/smoke/documentation/4.8.1/html/ch05s03s05.html) ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/7 "2021-05-03T19:56:52Z")
For ag and most other sectors, we use the December 2016 emissions for the December 2015 spinup period. You don’t need to rerun the tool for the spinup period. ---
**Author:** ![asmontgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asmontgomery](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/asmontgomery)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/8 "2021-05-03T20:15:23Z")
Then in that case, I’ll just run dec 2016 and shift the files! Thank you all. ---
**Author:** ![cjcoats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cjcoats](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/cjcoats)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/9 "2021-05-03T20:18:49Z")
No, I don’t think you used it wrong – it is saying that requested data isn’t there, which is in agreement with what your PROCTPRO was saying. You have a bad file for the run you want. By the way, another alternative would have been to use the command _ncdump -TFLAG/projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016\_beta/ge\_dat/temporal/Gentpro\_TPRO\_HOUR\_HOURLY\_BASH\_NH3.agNH3\_bash\_2015j\_12US2\_smk37.ncf_ to see what data is available: for dates× that are missing, there will be a pair `-,-` in that output; for dates× that are available, there will be a pair with that date&time, such as `2015001,00000` (for midnight on Jan. 1, 2015) ---
**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/10 "2021-05-03T20:33:00Z")
Sounds good. We are adding some information on spinup period emissions to our top level READMEs for our recent platforms. ---
**Author:** ![asmontgomery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@asmontgomery](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/asmontgomery)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-ag-sector-creating-gentpro-files-for-2015/2309/11 "2021-05-03T20:38:52Z")
> [@cjcoats](#): > > ncdump -TFLAG/projects/b1045/SMOKE.EMF/2016\_beta/ge\_dat/temporal/Gentpro\_TPRO\_HOUR\_HOURLY\_BASH\_NH3.agNH3\_bash\_2015j\_12US2\_smk37.ncf You’re right – the time steps were not shifted with the “create\_gentpro\_file\_for\_custom\_year.ncl” scripts and retained the original information, which was what I was suspecting as well because the base year was 2016 and the offset was -1. So the real answer must be with @bbaek in which I must use GENTPRO to create this 2015 file. However, since these are spin-up emissions, I will proceed by creating Dec. 2016 and m3tshifting files (which hopefully will work!).