[MITgcm-support] a problem with EXF

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:16 -0230, Ming Guo wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to run a simple one layer model with external wind forcing,
> but some errors appears as,
> 
> Skipping namelist "PARA_FORCING":seeking namelist "EXF_NML".
> namelist read start: end of file
> apparent state: unit 11 named /tmp/tmp.FKQcFpn
> last format: list io
> lately reading sequential formatted external IO
> Abort (core dumped)
> 
> DO I need to define some 'EXF_NML' file when turning on EXF?

Hi Ming,

Yes, you need to define a number of parameters for the EXF package.
Please see:

  MITgcm/verification/lab_sea/input/data.exf

which is part of the "lab_sea" verification run and includes an example
of how to use the EXF package.

Ed

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