[MITgcm-devel] MNC ERROR message

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 14:39 -0400, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I got this error message:
> > (PID.TID 0005.0001) *** ERROR *** MNC ERROR: variable 'RC' is already defined in file
> 'grid.t006.nc' but using a different grid shape
> 
> and it took me some time to realize what the real problem was
> that I restarted the model without removing grid.t00?.nc files.
> 
> I think it would be helpful to make the error message more explicit
> (e.g.: file XXXX.nc already exist ; cannot overwrite ; STOP ).

Hi Jean-Michel,

Yes, the error message is [at best! ;-)] misleading.  I'll take a look
at it this weekend.

Ed

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