[MITgcm-devel] Problem with lab_sea adjoint test

[Patrick Heimbach]

Dimitris,

On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis wrote:

> Patrick, what is involved in running the lab_sea adjoint test?  I  
> do have access to a TAF license at JPL.  I tried "testreport -t  
> lab_sea -adm" without success.  Are there other options that I need  
> to turn on?  I really want to be able to run the lab_sea adjoint  
> test locally so that I don't break the adjoint every time I change  
> something.

almost (but not exactly) correct syntax. Should be
testreport -ad -t lab_sea

> Is DIFFERENT_MULTIPLE still causing trouble?  If so, we can comment  
> or CPP it out.  I don't think that anybody uses that capability at  
> the moment.

I've fixed it through re-initializing some variables to break some
artificial dependencies.

>> Second thing is I can't find the
>> #ifdef SEAICE_BREAKS_VERIFICATION
>> that used to be in seaice_growth anymore
>> (it was bracketing code that broke the Arctic state estimation).
>
> That part was not working very well so I removed it altogether.

Ah, ok.

>> Third thing is that it seems code as of 1 or 2 weeks ago
>> no longer work for more than 1 iteration of Arcitc 1-year,
>> which I don't understand yet.
>
> Could we stick with code of three weeks ago for the Arctic  
> optimization?  There has been no significant changes in pkg/seaice  
> that are used in the Arctic configuration.  Two-week-old or even a  
> bit older vintage code is fine.

OK. Will try to resurrect it.

-p.



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