Wrong io stream specified in ndown code

[sael9740]

When attempting to run ndown it was failing with messages like the following:

  ndown_em main: calling open_r_dataset for wrfout_d01_2023-08-02_00:00:00
   NetCDF error: No such file or directory
   NetCDF error in wrf_io.F90, line         1077
-------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------
FATAL CALLED FROM FILE:  <stdin>  LINE:     307
program ndown: error opening wrfout_d01_2023-08-02_00:00:00 for reading ierr=   -1021
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This was baffling since the file was clearly there. Note that I specified io_form_auxinput2 = 2 in my namelist. I eventually found that although the debug messages indicated that ndown was trying to open the wrfout_d01_2023-08-02_00:00:00 file it was actually attempting to open the wrfout_d01_2023-08-02_00:00:00_0000 file, which would be the filename for rank 0 if I had set io_form_auxinput2=102. After digging into the code a bit I found that it was specifying DATASET=AUXINPUT1 in the open_r_dataset call:

WRF/main/ndown_em.F

Line 340 in 3dd1546

CALL open_r_dataset ( fid, TRIM(eligible_file_name(file_counter)) , head_grid , config_flags , "DATASET=AUXINPUT1", ierr )

I just happened to have specified io_form_auxinput1 = 102 for this test case, which explains why I ran into this issue.

Changing the DATASET=AUXINPUT1 to DATASET=AUXINPUT2 fixes the issue. I can create a pull request sometime next week for this.

[dudhia]

Thanks for providing not only the problem but also the solution.