[MITgcm-devel] offline_exf_seaice experiment

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi again,

On Sep 3, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> I've just changed offline_exf_seaice/code/CPP_OPTIONS.h
> will wait before turning off EXF_VERBOSE ;

Go ahead and check these in;
also #undef EXF_VERBOSE is ok,
it doesn't say much anyways apart from record numbers
and interpolation fractions.

> and will figure out the best way to proceed for
> the testreport / seaice_monitor.F & exf_monitor.F
> when you are back.

Not sure either what's best.
We let's see later.

-pAtrick

> Jean-Michel
>
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:59:49PM -0400, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>>
>> 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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