[MITgcm-devel] offline_exf_seaice experiment

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi Jean-Michel,

can we discuss this in 2 weeks?
Doesn't seem that urgent.
Didn't seem to be a good idea to me to change
testreport just to adapt one out of 60+ verif. experiments.
And not clear why monitor output is useless.
But I'll be happy to change everything (in 2 weeks).

-Patrick

On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> I am going to check-in a new version of
> offline_exf_seaice/code/CPP_OPTIONS.h
> without #include "PACKAGES_CONFIG.h" (but all the other options  
> unchanged).
> I don't want to see this CPP_OPTIONS.h being copied elsewhere
> and with #include "PACKAGES_CONFIG.h" starting to multiply (was
> hard enough to get rid of it).
> Also presently, it's shows a lot of differences when doing a diff
> with model/inc/CPP_OPTIONS.h (was also the case when originally  
> checked in)
> so will go for a more standard, up-to date version.
>
> I would also prefer to have #undef EXF_VERBOSE
> and to update offline_exf_seaice/results/output.txt &  
> output.seaicetd.txt
> since it's painful to search in those file with tons of
> exf_GetFFieldsRec: messages.
> It's also make those 2 output files more than 10 times bigger
> than the average output.txt file from any other experiment.
>
> And the last thing (but not going to change it now, until every one  
> agree)
> is the seaice_monitor.F and exf_monitor.F things:
> #ifdef ALLOW_BULK_OFFLINE
> c-- Trick monitor output for testreport
> C-- by writing some statistics into dynstat fields
> c-- which are tested by testreport
>
> If someone thinks that something is not right in testreport & results
> comparison, let's change testreport.
> But here, writing the area as cg2d_init_res output, or the area again
> written as dynstat_theta (which is part of the standard monitor  
> output,
> with meaningful values) is not the right way to go, I think.
> And yes, I prefer not to see any "cg2d" output in the testreport
> summary if the 2-D solver is not called (at least, it's telling that
> it's an offline experiment), rather than something that pretend to
> be a cg2d output but is not.
>
> And finally, the reason I would vote for changing back  
> seaice_monitor.F
> and exf_monitor.F (even before changing testreport),
> is that 1) it make the MONITOR output useless (e.g.:,
>> grep dynstat_theta_mean offline_exf_seaice/results/ 
>> output.seaicetd.txt )
> 2) there are other offline experiments (and passive tracer advection
> test) which have been there for long time and do not have fake output,
> and consequently, it's even more confusing (because unexpected).
>
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
>
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