# Issue about allocateGOES2WRFGrids in SA tools

**URL:** <https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/issue-about-allocategoes2wrfgrids-in-sa-tools/1443>\
**Category:** Spatial Allocator\
**Tags:** admin\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/issue-about-allocategoes2wrfgrids-in-sa-tools/1443 "2020-04-21T21:09:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Ryan](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/Ryan)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/issue-about-allocategoes2wrfgrids-in-sa-tools/1443/1 "2020-04-21T21:09:31Z")

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Dear staffs,  
I want to use the Spatial-Allocator tools to process the GOES satellite data for WRF assimilation. After searching for materials, I find there are allocateGOES2WRFGrids.csh and convertWRFNC2dataAssimilationFMT.csh in raster\_scripts. However, there isn’t any documents telling us how to use the output of these csh scripts for WRF data assimilation (Maybe I don’t find them). Could you please tell me how to use the output like wrf12km\_goes\_200608\_0111\_WRF.nc for data assimilation in WRF?

Best regards,  
Ryan

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**Author:** ![lizadams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@lizadams](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lizadams)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/issue-about-allocategoes2wrfgrids-in-sa-tools/1443/2 "2020-05-12T02:59:24Z")

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I found the following article from the developer of these tools. [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023424](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JD023424)  
that pointed to the Raster Tools User Manual.

The online version of the documentation is here:

> <https://github.com/CMASCenter/Spatial-Allocator/blob/master/docs/User_Manual/SA_ch04_raster.md#1-nlcd-and-modis-land-cover-generation>

I am not sure that the instructions were provided on how to use the output from the Raster Tools for data assimilation inputs into WRF-CMAQ. Perhaps @wong.david-c @rgilliam know, or may have a suggestion on who can best help with this.