[MITgcm-devel] manual chapter 3

[Jean-Michel Campin]

Hi Andrea,

As I said, I think it a good idea.
I just attached here a minimum "data" file to run
the executable (mitgcmuv) of exp. test advect_xz 
(need also the data.pkg & eedata from there).
that will write most of the parameter default value in
the config-summary report.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:30:25PM -0400, Andrea Molod wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> after talking a little with jean-michel, i would like to propose
> the following little changes to chapter 3 (in addition to the ones
> that are on the 'to do' list checked in to the manual directory):
> 
> add a section that will be section 3.7 (before the section that
> is called 'Doing it yourself: customizing the code') called:
> 
> Doing it yourself: customizing MITgcm configuration
> 
> and add in there, at a minimum, a list of the defaults in the
> data namelists. the list of data namelist parameters along with
> a brief description of what the parameter does is printed out
> in the config summary that is in the model standard out.
> 
> i guess it is my sense (maybe not correct?) that this is what
> many users do with MITgcm, at least in the beginning. and this
> is what they would look for instructions on how to do.
> 
> if people agree, i will change the text accordingly. in addition,
> to get the list jean-michel has agreed to run a little test 
> experiment with an almost empty data file. ed, can you take the config 
> summary from standard out and grep and cut and all that to make something
> that we can put into the document with verbatim? this would include
> a complete list of what's in the cofig summary, the description and
> the default values. for the arrays in there, i guess it makes sense
> to leave out the default values (ie, dX).
> 
> something like this, ie, a list of what is in the namelist and what
> are the default values, would be great to have for the package
> namelists, too. i will start this (by grepping the package.readparams
> fortran code) for the packages i know.
> 
> comments? thoughts?
> 
> andrea
> 
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# Continuous equation parameters
 &PARM01
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# Elliptic solver parameters
 &PARM02
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# Time stepping parameters
 &PARM03
 deltaT=60.,
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# Gridding parameters
 &PARM04
 delZ=20*10.E3,
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# Input datasets
 &PARM05
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