[MITgcm-devel] Problems with diagnostics package and mnc

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:47 -0500, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> myTime & myIter passed as arguments was working until now.
> I also though that passing thing as argument was 
> "the way to go". So may-be we can continue like this for 
> myTime & myIter ?
> 
> Can you give example where this does not work (apart from internal
> mnc S/R) and needs to be changed ?
> 
> The other thing is that we need to know what time it is
> when a real calendar is used (cal or with fizhi).
> I would prefer to have Patrick & Andrea opinion on this 
> point before making changes in the way the time is kept.
> Here my concern is the risk to end-up with 4 or 5 different ways 
> to keep a record of the time, with lot of overlap,
> that might not be very clear at the end.

Yes!  Agreed!

How about we discuss this at the next monthly meeting?

If possible, I'd really like to have a variable within a common block
(even if its an element-per-thread vector as Chris describes) that gives
us a "real time" (eg. with actual time units--whatever they are!) that
can be written as a coordinate variable by MNC.

Ed

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