[MITgcm-devel] pkg/layers verification exp.

[Ryan Abernathey]

Martin,
I finally got around to trying your changes to the layers code: the output
looks fine to me. Please go ahead and check this in.
Did you get a chance to do any benchmarking? Is the new code faster or
slower?
-Ryan


On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:

> OK, it's not exactly urgent anyway.
>
> Martin
>
> On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:33 PM, Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ryan and others,
> >
> > Will start to make changes in cfc_example to add a pkg/layers test
> > (working with David on this).
> > Will need to make few changes in pkg/layers so that it compiles
> > in this set-up.
> > Martin, if you can postpone your changes until this is done,
> > it will make things easier.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jean-Michel
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:25:32AM -0500, Ryan Abernathey wrote:
> >> I am not super familiar with these experiments, but I think the
> cfc_example
> >> is a better choice. What would really be ideal is an eddying experiment,
> >> but this is probably not practical for the daily test reports.
> Certainly an
> >> experiment with a realistic stratification and overturning is a
> necessity.
> >> Someone else (Martin / David / Ross / Jean-Michel) would probably be
> better
> >> than me at setting this up. The fact is that I don't run realistic
> global
> >> models. I am still stuck in a channel with no salinity! Layers has
> evolved
> >> quite a bit beyond my original setup.
> >>
> >> A nice accompaniment to this would be some real documentation. I have
> >> promised to work on this for quite some time, but it's one of those
> things
> >> that is hard to prioritize. ;)
> >>
> >> I have many ambitions for the future of layers. For example, I would
> love
> >> to be able to accumulate all the tracer-budget diagnostics that are
> filled
> >> in gad_advection.F in layer space. This would permit, for example, the
> >> online calculation of water mass transformation with an unprecedented
> level
> >> of precision. I am very glad that all you numerical wizards are getting
> >> involved because I will need your help to go down that road! The final
> >> step, the momentum budget in layer space, is pretty intimidating. And at
> >> that point you are probably better off just running GOLD. ;)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Ryan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Ryan, David, Martin and others,
> >>>
> >>> In response to Martin's concern about having an example that uses
> >>> pkg/layers,
> >>> I would propose to turn it on in one of the verification experiment.
> >>>
> >>> Right now, it's already compiled in exp4, but given the simple
> >>> T,S structure (+ only 8 levels) of this experiment, I was wondering
> >>> if we should rather pick an other experiment, may be a realistic
> set-up ?
> >>>
> >>> In term of realistic set-up, I would propose cfc_example, 2.8 x 2.8
> global
> >>> with 15 levels, starting from a pickup.
> >>> It is not too complicated (does not test too many critical features),
> >>> and also adding pkg/layers will not make it less clear the "cfc
> example"
> >>> part,
> >>> I think.
> >>>
> >>> But if exp4 is good enough to test pkg/layers, could just go with this
> one.
> >>>
> >>> What do you think ?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Jean-Michel
> >>>
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