What's the maskdata's format?

pbwang · December 19, 2021, 4:56am

Hi all.
I tried to serach from the net, but the link failed( Link to GRIDMASK files

Link to README text file with information on how these files were created)
Once I find cjcoats said, Just use your favorite text editor to create a text file with lines of the form
COL ROW
containing a list of the in-mask ( MASK=1 ) grid-cells.
So I want to make my maskdata file with COL for first column, ROW for second column, MASK(value=1) for thidr column? And the first line shoud be COL ROW MASK? What’s the correct format? Please give me an example.
Hope to get a prompt reply，thank you!

pbwang · December 19, 2021, 4:15pm

Dose maskdata(ASCⅡ) looks like the following? And only list the grid cells that mask=1?

COL	ROW	MASK
91	57	1
91	58	1
92	57	1
92	58	1
93	43	1
93	44	1
93	57	1
93	58	1
93	59	1

hogrefe.christian · December 23, 2021, 3:53pm

It seems that your question in this new thread is related to this other thread you started in which @cjcoats provided feedback on using m3merge to create mask files for use by CMAQ ISAM.

The mask file(s) used by CMAQ ISAM are described in a section of Appendix B of the User’s guide. Specifically, they are I/O API-style netCDF files that “contain a separate variable for each spatial region of interest. Each variable is a gridded field of real numbers from 0.0 to 1.0, with 0.0 outside of the region of interest and 1.0 completely inside the region”.

Given that you may not be able to access the example GRIDMASK file with US states due to country-specific blocks on Google services, here is a ncdump of the relevant header portions of that example file:

dimensions:
TSTEP = 1 ;
DATE-TIME = 2 ;
LAY = 1 ;
VAR = 49 ;
ROW = 299 ;
COL = 459 ;
variables:
int TFLAG(TSTEP, VAR, DATE-TIME) ;
TFLAG:units = “<YYYYDDD,HHMMSS>” ;
TFLAG:long_name = "TFLAG " ;
TFLAG:var_desc = "Timestep-valid flags: (1) YYYYDDD or (2) HHMMSS " ;
float AL(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
AL:long_name = "AL " ;
AL:units = "fraction " ;
AL:var_desc = "AL fractional area per grid cell " ;
float AZ(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
AZ:long_name = "AZ " ;
AZ:units = "fraction " ;
AZ:var_desc = "AZ fractional area per grid cell " ;
float AR(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
AR:long_name = "AR " ;
AR:units = "fraction " ;
AR:var_desc = "AR fractional area per grid cell " ;
… " ;
float WV(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
WV:long_name = "WV " ;
WV:units = "fraction " ;
WV:var_desc = "WV fractional area per grid cell " ;
float WI(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
WI:long_name = "WI " ;
WI:units = "fraction " ;
WI:var_desc = "WI fractional area per grid cell " ;
float WY(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
WY:long_name = "WY " ;
WY:units = "fraction " ;
WY:var_desc = "WY fractional area per grid cell " ;

// global attributes:
:IOAPI_VERSION = "ioapi-3.2: Id: init3.F90 1 2017-06-10 18:05:20Z coats " ;
:EXEC_ID = "??? " ;
:FTYPE = 1 ;
:CDATE = 2019303 ;
:CTIME = 150353 ;
:WDATE = 2019303 ;
:WTIME = 150353 ;
:SDATE = -635 ;
:STIME = 0 ;
:TSTEP = 0 ;
:NTHIK = 1 ;
:NCOLS = 459 ;
:NROWS = 299 ;
:NLAYS = 1 ;
:NVARS = 49 ;
:GDTYP = 2 ;
:P_ALP = 33. ;
:P_BET = 45. ;
:P_GAM = -97. ;
:XCENT = -97. ;
:YCENT = 40. ;
:XORIG = -2556000. ;
:YORIG = -1728000. ;
:XCELL = 12000. ;
:YCELL = 12000. ;
:VGTYP = -9999 ;
:VGTOP = -9.e+36f ;
:VGLVLS = 0.f, 0.f ;
:GDNAM = "US12_459X299 " ;
:UPNAM = "cdf2uamv " ;
:VAR-LIST = "AL AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY " ;
:FILEDESC = “” ;
:HISTORY = “” ;
}

pbwang · December 23, 2021, 4:54pm

Thank you for your reply.
I have download the the example GRIDMASK file with US states, and knew the header portions of that example file. My problem is I don’t know how the MASK_REGION have something to do with the and the emission grid. Because I make maskfile with m3mask and m3merge for 11 regions,with the suggestion from this forum, such as ISAM SA_ACONC output error - CMAQ-ISAM - CMAS CENTER FORUM. And thank you again for your explanation. But the tracking result for each region is zero. I think the MASK_REGION must be not connected to the emission file’s grid. So I conclude that my MASK_REGION is not correct, and the problem should be the fomat of my maskdata file. Can you tell me what variable should be in the maskdata? I have tried with only COL and ROW, and also don’t work. Look forward to your reply, thank you.

hogrefe.christian · December 23, 2021, 5:57pm

Thanks for your response. If I’m understanding your problem correctly, there are at least two potential reasons for why your ISAM results for each region are zero - 1) the MASK_REGION file you generated with m3mask and m3merge does not provide the expected information, or 2) your CMAQ run script, EmissCtrl namelist flile, and isam_control.txt file have not been configured correctly to use the MASK_REGION file you generated.

Before going back to possibility 1) (which would be best discussed in the other thread you started), I’d like to rule out possibility 2).

Assuming the MASK_REGION file you generated is /home/pbwang/CMAQ5.3/data/maskdata1/files/cmaqmasks.nc and contains variables m01, m02, … m11 on the same grid as your emission files you’d have to make sure to do the following:

In your run script, setenv ISAM_REGIONS /home/pbwang/CMAQ5.3/data/maskdata1/files/cmaqmasks.nc

In the RegionsRegistry of your EmissCtrl file, reference the environment variable for the mask file set in your run script:

&RegionsRegistry
RGN_NML =
! | Region Label | File_Label | Variable on File
‘ALL’ ,‘ISAM_REGIONS’,‘ALL’,
/

[note that you can use any other name for the environment variable referencing your mask file, e.g. MASK_REGION, as long as the name is consistent between the run script and the EmissCtrl namelist file]

In your isam_control.txt file, define tags that reference one or more of the variables contained in your mask file (i.e. m01, m02, etc.), e.g.

!!! gridded emissions from region m01
TAG NAME |G01
REGION(S) |m01
EMIS STREAM(S) |GR_EMIS

where GR_EMIS has to be the label of an emissions stream defined in your run script (e.g. setenv GR_EMIS_LAB_001 GR_EMIS).

One way to confirm that CMAQ correctly reads the variables from your grid mask file is to check the following portion of the CTM_LOG files:

 |> Check Emissions Mapping:
 +============================


 =============================================================================
 |> SCALING EMISSIONS CONSISTENT WITH EMISSIONS CONTROL FILE SUPPLIED BY USER
 =============================================================================

 |> Regions Available for Scaling:
 =================================
    Number  Region Label        File Label          Variable
    ------  ------------        ----------          --------
      1     EVERYWHERE          N/A                 N/A
      2     m01             ISAM_REGIONS        m01
      3     m02             ISAM_REGIONS        m02

etc.

If your setup matches what’s described above, it indeed would seem to suggest a problem with the mask file you generated with m3mask and m3merge. In that case, it would be best to follow up in the other thread.

pbwang · December 24, 2021, 12:52pm

I find my CMAQ can reads the variables from my grid mask file.（Here is another task’s CTM_LOG files, and I change my variables from m01,m02……to M01, M02……)
|> SCALING EMISSIONS CONSISTENT WITH EMISSIONS CONTROL FILE SUPPLIED BY USER
=============================================================================

 |> Regions Available for Scaling:
 =================================
    Number  Region Label        File Label          Variable
    ------  ------------        ----------          --------
      1     EVERYWHERE          N/A                 N/A
      2     R01                 CMAQ_MASK           M01
      3     R02                 CMAQ_MASK           M02
      4     R03                 CMAQ_MASK           M03
      5     R04                 CMAQ_MASK           M04
      6     R05                 CMAQ_MASK           M05
      7     R06                 CMAQ_MASK           M06
      8     R07                 CMAQ_MASK           M07
      9     R08                 CMAQ_MASK           M08
     10     R09                 CMAQ_MASK           M09
     11     R10                 CMAQ_MASK           M10
     12     R11                 CMAQ_MASK           M11

But, I find that there is a problem in ISAM_REGIONS with Time step :
Warning! Something went wrong while reading the
RegionFamilies section of the Emissions Control
Namelist. Default values for this section will be
assumed.

 "CMAQ_MASK" opened as OLD:READ-ONLY   
 File name "/home/pbwang/CMAQ5.3/data/maskdata3/files/CMAQ_MASK"
 File type GRDDED3 
 Execution ID "????????????????"
 Grid name "CN5NC_156X117"
 Dimensions: 117 rows, 156 cols, 1 lays, 11 vbles
 NetCDF ID:    851968  opened as READONLY            
 Time-independent data.
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine RDTFLAG
 Time step not available in file CMAQ_MASK        for variable M01
 
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine XTRACT3
 Time step not available for file:  CMAQ_MASK
 
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine INIT_REGIONS on PE 000
 Could not read M01                             from file CMAQ_MASK
 
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine RDTFLAG
 Time step not available in file CMAQ_MASK        for variable M02
 
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine XTRACT3
 Time step not available for file:  CMAQ_MASK
 
 
 >>--->> WARNING in subroutine INIT_REGIONS on PE 000
 Could not read M02                             from file CMAQ_MASK

I have two questions, first is RegionFamilies is not clear in the USER GUIDE, I don’t know if it is realation to the CMAQ_MASK. Second is what’s the time step of CMAQ_MASK, I have tried with the time step zero andan 010000. But the results of my 11 regions ISAM is all the same, all zero.
Now I think my CMAQ_MASK must be wrong. Please help me analyze the problem,thank you.

hogrefe.christian · December 24, 2021, 5:00pm

Thanks for the detailed feedback and posting the relevant sections from your CTM_LOG file. Yes, it seems there is a problem with your mask file, specifically with its time structure. Based on the error message, I suspect that there may be an inconsistency between SDATE, STIME, and TSTEP on the one hand and the values of the TFLAG variable on the other hand that prevent the code from reading the contents of your mask file properly. Given that the masks are initialized to zero, this read failure then leads to zero contributions for ISAM tags referencing these mask variables.

Could you please post the results of ncdump -v TFLAG /home/pbwang/CMAQ5.3/data/maskdata3/files/CMAQ_MASK?

Regarding your question on the RegionFamilies section of the EmissCtrl, this is not really relevant to your current problem, so you can keep it commented out. In general, what it allows you to do is to define new combined regions from individual variables contained in your CMAQ_MASK file to more efficiently apply emission scaling rules or define ISAM tags across multiple regions. For example, if you wanted to define a new region M123 as combination of M01, M02, and M03, you could do something like this:
&RegionFamilies
NRegionFamilies = 1
RegionFamilyName(1) = ‘M123’
RegionFamilyNum(1) = 3
RegionFamilyMembers(1,:)= ‘M01’,‘M02’,‘M03’
/
and you could then refer to M123 in the EmissCtrl regional scaling instructions and/or the isam_control.txt file. Of course, you can already list multiple regions in isam_control.txt for a given tag, so the “Families” construct is simply a way to do so more efficiently if you end up using a given combination of regions repeatedly for emissions scaling and/or ISAM tag definitions.

pbwang · December 25, 2021, 1:58am

Thank you for your reply, and I know RegionFamily works like a group. Here is my results of ncdump -v TFLAG
dimensions:
TSTEP = 1 ;
DATE-TIME = 2 ;
LAY = 1 ;
VAR = 11 ;
ROW = 117 ;
COL = 156 ;
variables:
int TFLAG(TSTEP, VAR, DATE-TIME) ;
TFLAG:units = “<YYYYDDD,HHMMSS>” ;
TFLAG:long_name = "TFLAG " ;
TFLAG:var_desc = "Timestep-valid flags: (1) YYYYDDD or (2) HHMMSS " ;
float M01(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M01:long_name = "M01 " ;
M01:units = "none " ;
M01:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M02(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M02:long_name = "M02 " ;
M02:units = "none " ;
M02:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M03(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M03:long_name = "M03 " ;
M03:units = "none " ;
M03:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M04(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M04:long_name = "M04 " ;
M04:units = "none " ;
M04:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M05(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M05:long_name = "M05 " ;
M05:units = "none " ;
M05:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M06(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M06:long_name = "M06 " ;
M06:units = "none " ;
M06:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M07(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M07:long_name = "M07 " ;
M07:units = "none " ;
M07:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M08(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M08:long_name = "M08 " ;
M08:units = "none " ;
M08:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M09(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M09:long_name = "M09 " ;
M09:units = "none " ;
M09:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M10(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M10:long_name = "M10 " ;
M10:units = "none " ;
M10:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;
float M11(TSTEP, LAY, ROW, COL) ;
M11:long_name = "M11 " ;
M11:units = "none " ;
M11:var_desc = "1==mask region, 0==outside-mask region " ;

// global attributes:
:IOAPI_VERSION = "ioapi-3.2: Id: init3.F90 98 2018-04-05 14:35:07Z coats " ;
:EXEC_ID = "??? " ;
:FTYPE = 1 ;
:CDATE = 2021354 ;
:CTIME = 142105 ;
:WDATE = 2021354 ;
:WTIME = 142105 ;
:SDATE = 0 ;
:STIME = 0 ;
:TSTEP = 0 ;
:NTHIK = 1 ;
:NCOLS = 156 ;
:NROWS = 117 ;
:NLAYS = 1 ;
:NVARS = 11 ;
:GDTYP = 2 ;
:P_ALP = 30. ;
:P_BET = 60. ;
:P_GAM = 105.661399841309 ;
:XCENT = 105.661399841309 ;
:YCENT = 34.6201438903809 ;
:XORIG = -390000. ;
:YORIG = -290000. ;
:XCELL = 5000. ;
:YCELL = 5000. ;
:VGTYP = -9999 ;
:VGTOP = 5000.f ;
:VGLVLS = 1.f, 0.998f ;
:GDNAM = “CN5NC_156X117” ;
:UPNAM = "M3MERGE " ;
:VAR-LIST = "M01 M02 M03 M04 M05 M06 M07 M08 M09 M10 M11 " ;
:FILEDESC = "US EPA COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL METEOROLOGY-CHEMISTRY INTERFACE PROCESSOR MCIP V5.1 FROZEN 11/21/2019 INPUT METEOROLOGY DATA FROM WRF ARW V4.2 INPUT RUN INITIALIZED: 2018-12-25-00:00:00.0000 CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION: Betts-Miller-Janjic SHALLOW CONVECTION: No shallow convection MICROPHYSICS: Purdue Lin et al. LONGWAVE RADIATION: RRTM SHORTWAVE RADIATION: Dudhia PBL SCHEME: Mellor-Yamada-Janjic (Eta) TKE SURFACE LAYER SCHEME: Monin-Obukhov (Janjic Eta) LAND-SURFACE SCHEME: NOAH Land-Surface Model URBAN MODEL: Multi-Layer Bldg Energy Model LAND USE CLASSIFICATION: MODIFIED_IGBP_MODIS 3D ANALYSIS NUDGING: OFF WIND COEFF: not applicable TEMP COEFF: not applicable MOIS COEFF: not applicable GEOP COEFF: not applicable SFC ANALYSIS NUDGING: OFF WIND COEFF: not applicable TEMP COEFF: not applicable MOIS COEFF: not applicable OBS NUDGING: OFF WIND COEFF: not applicable TEMP COEFF: not applicable MOIS COEFF: not applicable EARTH RADIUS ASSUMED IN MCIP: 6370000.000 m " ;
:HISTORY = “” ;
data:

TFLAG =
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _,
_, _ ;
}
I made this CMAQ_MASK only by COL and ROW (the cell in the mask）. I input SDATE, STIME, and TSTEP ,Duration time with 2018360, 000000, 010000, 8890000 in this CMAQ_MASK.
I tried ncdump -v M01,the value of M01:
data:

M01 =
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
_, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _,
……………………
So is there any problem with the TFLAG and M01? I found that the FLAG and M01 in CMAQ_MASK which I input SDATE, STIME, and TSTEP ,Duration time all zero, are the same as I past above.

cjcoats · December 25, 2021, 11:05am

So is there any problem with the TFLAG and M01?..

This says that the file-header has been created but no data has been written to the file.

pbwang · December 25, 2021, 1:48pm

Thank you for your reply @cjcoats. So there is something wrong with my CMAQ_MASK. I made the CMAQ_MASK with the maskdata file which is a txtfile and only list the COL and ROW of the cell that mask=1. I made maskfile with m3mask. And I input ncdump -v MASK maskfile1:
MASK =
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
…………
So I think I made my maskfile correctly. I merge 11 maskfiles to make my CMAQ_MASK, and the value of M01 is:
M01 =
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
…………
But after I changed my CMAQ_MASK’s variable form int to float with the program（I learned form https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/isam-sa-aconc-output-error/1622/10）
ncdump -h CMAQ_MASK >CMAQ_MASK.cdl
vi CMAQ_MASK.cdl (change “int” to “folat”)
ncgen -o CMAQ_MASK CMAQ_MASK.cdl
Then I tried ncdump -v M01,the value of M01 change to what I past above. So how to change the type of the variable？ Did ncgen need to install first?

hogrefe.christian · December 25, 2021, 5:35pm

I haven’t tried the method of converting int to float using a combination of ncdump and ncgen myself, but it seems that you should not use “-h” in the command sequence above, otherwise your new netcdf file just contains the header data of the original file with no actual data, exactly the behavior you’re seeing. So, try this instead and verify afterwards with ncdump that that TFLAG and M01, M02, etc. all look reasonable:

ncdump CMAQ_MASK >CMAQ_MASK.cdl
vi CMAQ_MASK.cdl (change “int” to “float”)
ncgen -o CMAQ_MASK CMAQ_MASK.cdl

pbwang · December 26, 2021, 2:01am

Really appreciate you @hogrefe.christian @cjcoats
The variables data has been written into my new CMAQ_MASK. Now I’m trying to run the ISAM.

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