Error using ERA5 forcing in LISF: nf90_get_var failed for ps + MPI_ABORT crash

[Mahza2303]

Hi everyone,

I am currently using ERA5 meteorological data to force the LISF model. Unfortunately, the model crashes with the following MPI error:
MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 3 in communicator MPI COMMUNICATOR 3 CREATE FROM 0 with errorcode 1.
NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on exactly when Open MPI kills them.

And here are the last few lines from one of the LIS log files:

97 [INFO] Reading albedo map for month 12
98 [INFO] Reading albedo map for month 1
99 [INFO] Reading ERA5 file (bookend, 1 -./ERA5/FORCING_202401.nc)
100 [ERR] nf90_get_var failed for ps in read_era5 Stopping.
101 [ERR] endrun is being called

It appears the crash is due to a missing or improperly named ps (surface pressure) variable in the forcing NetCDF file, even though I've verified that ps is present.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any insights or suggestions on how to properly configure or preprocess the ERA5 files for LISF would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[dmocko]

Hi @Mahza2303

Please see this directory for a sample ERA5 forcing file, and other LIS-required associated files to run ERA5 forcing:
https://portal.nccs.nasa.gov/lisdata_pub/data/MET_FORCING/ERA5/

The LIS code is looking for the surface pressure with the variable name "PSurf".