I am suspicious that you don't have the file that contains invariant variables, especially landmask and terrain height, which are two important variables for WRF/WPS.
Please let me know if I am wrong. Otherwise, please download the following two files (from NCAR CISL)
These files are not 'built-in' files. You have to download them, then go through the ungrib and metgrid processes.
Note that the two files need to be ungribbed separately (with start_date and end_date = '2016-01-01_00:00:00', and prefix = 'FILE2' in &unribThese files
Then rename FILE2:2016-01-01_00 to be FILE2, and set
#!/usr/bin/env csh # # c-shell script to download selected files from rda.ucar.edu using Wget # NOTE: if you want to run under a different shell, make sure you change # the 'set' commands according to your shell's syntax # after you save the file, don't forget to make it executable # i.e. - "chmod 755 <name_of_script>" # # Experienced Wget Users: add additional command-line flags to 'opts' here # Use the -r (--recursive) option with care # Do NOT use the -b (--background) option - simultaneous file downloads # can cause your data access to be blocked set opts = "-N" # # Check wget version. Set the --no-check-certificate option # if wget version is 1.10 or higher set v = `wget -V |grep 'GNU Wget ' | cut -d ' ' -f 3` set a = `echo$v | cut -d '.' -f 1` set b = `echo$v | cut -d '.' -f 2` if(100 * $a + $b > 109) then set cert_opt = "--no-check-certificate" else set cert_opt = "" endif