[MITgcm-devel] obcs/exf and yearlyfields

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Martin, if you do decide to add this capability, I have two comments:

1. Could you use a different flag, for example, useObcsYearlyFields.  This is 
because there are already several folks (Alan, An, Michael) who are using a 
mixed yearly and non-yearly input files.

2. Keep your eyes open for a bug that fails to properly wrap around between two 
years during initialization.  For example, if you attempt to start from hour 
zero 1992, while the yearly files start from hour three, the code will give an 
error message and exit rather than use the last record of 1991 and wrap around. 
  This problem only occurs during initialization.  It works OK if you are 
integrating from say, December 31, 1991.

D.

> I noticed that exf_set_obcs_* do not use the convenient useExfYearlyFields
> flag. Is there a principle problem with this flag and obcs, or is it just a
> historical problem that is on someone list to be fixed? (I may want to fix it
> for me now, can I try?)