[MITgcm-devel] pkg/icefront parameters in data.exf

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Bonjour Jean-Michel, yes sgrunoff is old code that was removed in Nov. 2013.
It was code used by Yun Xu for modeling subglacial runoff using addmass.
But it turned out that pkg/obcs was better suited for Yun Xu’s work, as she
needed to associate a velocity with incoming waters.  However, it is possible
that Cilan Cai may have to resuscitate some of this capability for her studies.

And yes I think that moving all parameters to within pkg/icefront is a good idea!

Dimitris Menemenlis

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to move the icefront EXF setting (mainly reading namelist
> EXF_NML_SGRUNOFF + 1 call in exf_init_fixed.F) outside of pkg/exf 
> into pkg/icefront.
> 
> I don't see where "sgrunofffile" is used in current code (was there in 
> an old version of icefront_sgrunoff_read.F that has been removed in Nov 2013)
> but it would be better to have it all within pkg/icefront.
> 
> And in general, when a pkg needs a field to be loaded using some EXF S/R,
> this does not need to be set (half way) in data.exf and in the own pkg
> parameter file: all parameters and setting can stay within the pkg code
> and pkg parameter file (in fact, Oliver is already doing this for the new 
> darwin pkg).
> 
> Currently, the other pkg to have a split list of parameters is obcs,
> but since it has been like this for a while, I am not tempted to make 
> changes there.
> 
> Any comment is welcomed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
> 
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