11 November 2009, eaton Downloaded latest soil_erod files from http://dust.ess.uci.edu/dead/data/nocoast The filenames don't contain creation dates. From an ncdump the files were created on 20090203 so add _c090203 to the filenames. The downloaded files are much larger than the old ones. They contain a bunch of fields that CAM doesn't use. The field that CAM does use is called rdb_fct_gmr in the original files. Extract that field and rename it mbl_bsn_fct_geo which is the name CAM expects. Do this with the following commands on each file: % ncks -v rdb_fct_gmr from_charlie/$file $file % ncrename -v rdb_fct_gmr,mbl_bsn_fct_geo $file The files added are: -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 114348 Nov 10 15:10 dst_1.9x2.5_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 5812 Nov 10 15:10 dst_10x15_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 267056 Nov 10 15:10 dst_128x256_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 18972 Nov 10 15:10 dst_32x64_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 39836 Nov 10 15:10 dst_48x96_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 29236 Nov 10 15:10 dst_4x5_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 68900 Nov 10 15:10 dst_64x128_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 3020 Nov 10 15:10 dst_8x16_c090203.nc -r--r--r-- 1 eaton cseg 148500 Nov 10 15:10 dst_94x192_c090203.nc