[MITgcm-devel] two of my favorite packages: exf/cal

[Patrick Heimbach]

Martin,

I think I can confirm all of Dimitris' statements.
I have similar warnings within initializing some
ECCO-related times/dates. These warnings are benign.
Essentially, the call_fuldate gets used also to initialize
fields that carry entries before model start time,
such as forcing records w.r.t. to an absolute time.

Haven't used the EXF_VERBOSE option in a while
since it screws up the adjoint.

Cheers
-p.



On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Martin, I always get this error
>
>> cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before predef. reference date
>
> and ignore it.  It is because no startdate is needed nor
> has been specified for runoff in data.exf yet cal_FulDate
> is called in exf_readparms.F
>
> I have just checked in a fix that will remove this spurious
> warning message, i.e., check for period .gt. 0 before calling  
> cal_FulDate
> in exf_readparms.F
>
> Your other option is to specify a startdate for runoff in data.exf,
> even though it will never be used.
>
> D.
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