[MITgcm-devel] Problems with diagnostics package and mnc

[Baylor Fox-Kemper]

Here's the output from an example diagnostics mnc file that appears to 
overwrite the data at every dump time, rather than appending...

Note also that the coordinate variables are missing and time is in 
iterations, not dimensional time.

- Baylor

ncdump -vT run.2.0_20041228_0001/saltflxD.0000.000001.nc
netcdf saltflxD.0000.000001 {
dimensions:
         T = UNLIMITED ; // (5 currently)
         Zd000024 = 24 ;
         Xd = 75 ;
         Yd = 25 ;
variables:
         int T(T) ;
                 T:long_name = "iteration_count" ;
         int level_indicies(Zd000024) ;
                 level_indicies:description = "Idicies of vertical 
levels within the data source arrays" ;
         double UVELSLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 UVELSLT:description = "Zonal Transp of Salt 
(m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 UVELSLT:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double VVELSLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 VVELSLT:description = "Meridional Transp of Salt 
(m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 VVELSLT:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double WVELSLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 WVELSLT:description = "Vertical Transp of Salt 
(m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 WVELSLT:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double USLTMASS(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 USLTMASS:description = "Zonal Mass-Weight Transp of 
Salt (m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 USLTMASS:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double VSLTMASS(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 VSLTMASS:description = "Meridional Mass-Weight Transp 
of Salt (m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 VSLTMASS:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double WSLTMASS(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 WSLTMASS:description = "Vertical Mass-Weight Transp of 
Salt (m-kg/s-kg)" ;
                 WSLTMASS:units = "m-kg/s-kg" ;
         double ADVx_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 ADVx_SLT:description = "Zonal      Advective Flux of 
Salinity" ;
                 ADVx_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double ADVy_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 ADVy_SLT:description = "Meridional Advective Flux of 
Salinity" ;
                 ADVy_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double ADVr_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 ADVr_SLT:description = "Vertical   Advective Flux of 
Salinity" ;
                 ADVr_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double DIFx_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 DIFx_SLT:description = "Zonal      Diffusive Flux of 
Salinity" ;
                 DIFx_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double DIFy_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 DIFy_SLT:description = "Meridional Diffusive Flux of 
Salinity" ;
                 DIFy_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double DFrE_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 DFrE_SLT:description = "Vertical Diffusive Flux of 
Salinity    (Explicit part)" ;
                 DFrE_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;
         double DFrI_SLT(Zd000024, Yd, Xd) ;
                 DFrI_SLT:description = "Vertical Diffusive Flux of 
Salinity    (Implicit part)" ;
                 DFrI_SLT:units = "psu.m^3/s" ;

// global attributes:
                 :the_run_name = "" ;
                 :MITgcm_URL = "http://mitgcm.org" ;
                 :MITgcm_tag_id = "1.362 2004/10/01" ;
                 :MITgcm_mnc_ver = 0.9 ;
                 :tile_number = 1 ;
                 :bi = 1 ;
                 :bj = 1 ;
                 :xC0 = 0. ;
                 :yC0 = 0. ;
                 :sNx = 75 ;
                 :sNy = 25 ;
                 :OLx = 3 ;
                 :OLy = 3 ;
                 :nSx = 1 ;
                 :nSy = 1 ;
                 :nPx = 1 ;
                 :nPy = 1 ;
                 :Nx = 75 ;
                 :Ny = 25 ;
                 :Nr = 24 ;
data:

  T = 96, 192, 288, 384, 480 ;
}