<p>Did you use the right Vtable? That error message is saying that the soil temperature variable is missing/couldn't be read.</p>

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2019-01-18T20:54:29.063Z
This error is misleading since it also occures when metgrid.exe is also successful. I would remove from my question. I still have problem to involve surface pressure in surface data.
Seyed Omid Nabavi
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2019-01-18T18:24:16.930Z
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<p>I want to run wrf chem with ERA 5. I followed this post <a href="https://dreambooker.site/2018/04/20/Initializing-the-WRF-model-with-ERA5/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dreambooker.site/2018/04/20/Initializing-the-WRF-model-with-ERA5/</a>. Everything works fine unless I add surface pressure to surface data list(SP or 134.128). metgrid.exe threw out </p>

<pre><code>Processing domain 1 of 1
 Processing 2015-06-01_00
    FILE
    PRES
ERROR: Error in ext_pkg_write_field
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 0) - process 0
</code></pre>

<p>Any help would be highly appreciated.</p>

<atmosphere-modelling><wrf><era><wrf-chem>
run the WRF model using ERA5
Seyed Omid Nabavi
# run the WRF model using ERA5

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-17)

I want to run wrf chem with ERA 5. I followed this post <https://dreambooker.site/2018/04/20/Initializing-the-WRF-model-with-ERA5/>. Everything works fine unless I add surface pressure to surface data list(SP or 134.128). metgrid.exe threw out

```
Processing domain 1 of 1
 Processing 2015-06-01_00
    FILE
    PRES
ERROR: Error in ext_pkg_write_field
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 0) - process 0

```

Any help would be highly appreciated.

**Tags:** atmosphere-modelling, wrf, era, wrf-chem


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-18. Score: 1

Did you use the right Vtable? That error message is saying that the soil temperature variable is missing/couldn't be read.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: This error is misleading since it also occures when metgrid.exe is also successful. I would remove from my question. I still have problem to involve surface pressure in surface data.  

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