[MITgcm-support] prelim. assessment of latest MAIN branch adjoint

[Patrick Heimbach]

The same applies for the
431                      IF (.TRUE.) THEN
statement in S/R thermodynamics.F
It should be avoided when running TAF
(in its current version).

-p.



Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> Part of the reason why the latest adjoint
> is broken is the
>       IF ( .TRUE. ) THEN
> statement, see the green marked block in
> http://dev.mitgcm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/MITgcm/model/src/forward_step.F.diff?r1=1.57&r2=1.58 
> 
> 
> (the whole forcing if-sequences are quite messy anyways).
> 
> It's clearly a TAF problem that such
> an if statement creates dependencies,
> (the IF statement is obviously always true),
> but we have to live with it until TAF is fixed.
> 
> -p.
> 


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