[MITgcm-devel] diagnostics package and mnc format

[Ed Hill]

Hi Dimitris,

I don't (yet) have access to kalpana but should soon.  I sent an email
to "Niggley at nas.nasa.gov" yesterday and made sure to cc: both you and
Bob Ciotti.  I'm hoping that they'll set things up early next week.  If
not, I'll probably be asking for your help!

Andrea is correct that her "diagnostics" package is working with the
"mnc" package to produce NetCDF output.  I'll test it on our "baby"
16-cpu Altix tonight.  Attached are two data files:

  data.diagnostics & data.mnc

that work with the "hs94.cs-32x32x5":

  cp data.diagnostics data.mnc  \
    MITgcm/verification/hs94.cs-32x32x5/input
  mkdir MITgcm/verification/hs94.cs-32x32x5/build
  cd MITgcm/verification/hs94.cs-32x32x5/build
  ../../../tools/genmake2 -mods=../code -enable=mnc
  make depend
  make
  cd ../input
  ../build/mitgcmuv

The only problem that you are likely to encounter is the lack of NetCDF
libraries on kalpana.  Thats easily solved and I'll build it as soon as
they give me access.  Or I can build it on our Altix and give you the
binary assuming we have the same compiler.

Also, even if we don't use the mnc/NetCDF output it still may be helpful
to use the "diagnostics" package in lieu of timeave.

Ed

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# Diagnostic Package Choices
 &diagnostics_list
  use_mnc=.true.
  frequency(1) = 10,
   levels(1,1) = 1.,
   fields(1,1) = 'ETAN    ','ETANSQ  ',
   filename(1) = 'surface',
  frequency(2) = 10,
   levels(1,2) = 1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,
   fields(1,2) = 'UVEL    ','VVEL    ','WVEL    ','THETA   ','SALT    ',
   filename(2) = 'state',
  frequency(3) = 10,
   levels(1,3) = 1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,
   fields(1,3) = 'UVELSQ  ','VVELSQ  ','THETASQ ','UVELVVEL',
                 'USLTMASS','VSLTMASS','UTHMASS ','VTHMASS ','WVELTH  ',
   filename(3) = 'secmoms',
 &end
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# Example "data.mnc" file
# Lines beginning "#" are comments
 &MNC_01
 useMNC=.TRUE.,
 mnc_echo_gvtypes=.TRUE.,
 mnc_use_outdir=.TRUE.,
 mnc_outdir_date=.TRUE.,
 mnc_outdir_str='test_mnc_'
 &
# Note: Some systems use & as the
# namelist terminator. Other systems
# use a / character (as shown here).