[MITgcm-devel] .data and .meta grid files

[Baylor Fox-Kemper]

Hello All,
   I am getting some strange .data and .meta files produced at model 
initialization, even though I have all _mnc flags set to true:

from an ls of the directory:

DXC.001.001.data        XG.001.001.data         hFacC.001.001.data
DXC.001.001.meta        XG.001.001.meta         hFacC.001.001.meta
DXG.001.001.data        YC.001.001.data         hFacS.001.001.data
DXG.001.001.meta        YC.001.001.meta         hFacS.001.001.meta
DYC.001.001.data        YG.001.001.data         hFacW.001.001.data
DYC.001.001.meta        YG.001.001.meta         hFacW.001.001.meta
DYG.001.001.data        available_diagnostics   invtimeRestoreFile.bin
DYG.001.001.meta        data                    mitgcmuv
Depth.001.001.data      data.diagnostics        mvall.sh
Depth.001.001.meta      data.kpp                output.txt
RAC.001.001.data        data.mnc                rmall.sh
RAC.001.001.meta        data.pkg                spiceInitial.bin
RAS.001.001.data        data.saved              spiceRestoreFile.bin
RAS.001.001.meta        data2.mnc               thetaInitial.bin
RAW.001.001.data        dx_variable.bin         thetaRestoreFile.bin
RAW.001.001.meta        dy_variable.bin         topo_sl.bin
STDERR.0000             eedata                  uInitial.bin
XC.001.001.data         expinstability.m        zf.mat
XC.001.001.meta         genit.m

and data.mnc is:

run.3.0>> more data.mnc
# Example "data.mnc" file
# Lines beginning "#" are comments
  &MNC_01
# mnc_echo_gvtypes=.FALSE.,
# mnc_use_indir=.FALSE.,
  mnc_use_outdir=.TRUE.,
  mnc_outdir_str='run.2.0_',
  mnc_outdir_date=.TRUE.,
  monitor_mnc=.TRUE.,
# mon_write_mnc=.TRUE.,
  snapshot_mnc=.TRUE.,
  timeave_mnc=.TRUE.,
  pickup_write_mnc=.TRUE.,
  pickup_read_mnc=.TRUE.,
  &
# Note: Some systems use & as the
# namelist terminator. Other systems
# use a / character (as shown here).


and in data.diagnostics, I've set

   diag_mnc=.TRUE.,