# Error with GRDMAT

**URL:** https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-grdmat/585
**Category:** Run Errors and Warnings
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-grdmat/585 "2019-03-27T12:12:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![zyj.jess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8dc957/32.png) [@zyj.jess](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/zyj.jess)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-grdmat/585/1 "2019-03-27T12:12:00Z")

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Dear all;

I am running NEI modeling platform 2014v7.0. The error I have is shown below.

```
 File "GRIDDESC" opened for input on unit: 96
 /share/cmaq/INSTALL_DIR/ge_dat/gridding/griddesc_lambertonly_18sep2015_v64.txt

 Value for IOAPI_GRIDNAME_1: '12US1'
 Value for IOAPI_GRIDNAME_1: '12US1'

 File "GRIDDESC" opened for input on unit: 96
 /share/cmaq/INSTALL_DIR/ge_dat/gridding/griddesc_lambertonly_18sep2015_v64.txt

 
 *** ERROR ABORT in subroutine GRDMAT
 Could not get Models-3 grid description.

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Could you give me some suggestion to fix it? Thank you a lot!

Yijia

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### Author: ![zyj.jess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8dc957/32.png) [@zyj.jess](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/zyj.jess)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-grdmat/585/2 "2019-03-27T12:25:07Z")

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I fixed it by change gridname is 12US1 \_459x299.

Yijia

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### 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: [April 9, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/error-with-grdmat/585/3 "2019-04-09T20:02:15Z")

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