[MITgcm-support] New to list, and issue with natl_box_adjoint

[Caroline Papadopoulos]

Dear Patrick,

thanks for all your help, I will go and revisit, since without
those changes the code did not run.  I will take what you
have said and try and see if I can reproduce.

thank you so much,

Caroline


Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> Hi Caroline,
> 
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Caroline Papadopoulos wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am new to the list, and although I have run the model before for  
>> others, I am starting to get more involved and setting things up
>> myself.  I am at SIO working with the ecco group as a programmer.   
>> I have been working on getting the natl_box_adjoint code to work  
>> with experiment no 1.  With help (thanks Matt!!) the following  
>> items were found to make it run, it would not run out of the box,  
>> mostly changes to the README doc and one bug? I am using checkpoint  
>> 61T on ia64 using PGI.
> 
> Welcome to the list.
> 
>> From the documentation file README has batsi.mit.edu for the
>> datasets but this needs to be harbor.mit.edu.  I tried to use
>> wget, but robot.txt had it so that did not work, so I just used ftp.
> 
> We've done some server hardware & software changes,
> and indeed have new machine names.
> Thanks for pointing this out.
> 
> As for the rest, there are no bugs, everything is in order.
> Please read on for details.
> 
>> It appears that ALLOW_BULKFORMULAE is now the default rather
>> than the exception,
> 
> No, that's not the case, air-sea fluxes remain "default"
> (i.e. if CPP options are undef).
> 
>> so in EXF_OPTIONS.h it was necessary to
>> change:
>>
>> 	#define  ALLOW_ATM_WIND
>>
>> to
>>
>> 	#undef  ALLOW_ATM_WIND
> 
> No, that's not the case, no change needs to be made to EXF_OPTIONS.h
> Since you are using
> #define ALLOW_AUTODIFF_TAMC
> whatever is in EXF_OPTIONS.h gets ignored and replaced by  
> ECCO_CPPOPTIONS.h
> (I just tested it for latest code, it still works).
> 
>> to allow experiment #1 to run.  That about covers the README
>> changes for experiment 1.
>>
>>
>> We also found this as a supsected bug:
>>
>> in exf_check.F at line 64:
>>
>>
>> #ifndef ALLOW_ATM_WIND
>>       IF ( uwindfile .NE. ' ' .OR. vwindfile .NE. ' ' ) THEN
>>         STOP
>>      & 'S/R EXF_CHECK: read-in wind-stress but not u,v_wind  
>> components'
>>       ENDIF
>> #endif
>>
>>
>> should be
>>
>> #ifdef ALLOW_ATM_WIND
>>       IF ( uwindfile .NE. ' ' .OR. vwindfile .NE. ' ' ) THEN
>>         STOP
>>      & 'S/R EXF_CHECK: read-in wind-stress but not u,v_wind  
>> components'
>>       ENDIF
>> #endif
> 
> No, that's not the case.
> This is a test to catch the possibility that you think you are using  
> uwindfile, vwindfile,
> but are using
> #undef ALLOW_ATM_WIND
> Your suggestion would mostly stop the model.
> 
>> One final question, I know this is a lot for one email, does anyone
>> know if the datasets like:
>>
>>     PH_S_93_opbd__020_016_23.data
>>
>> correspond to a particular open boundary?  I did not find anything  
>> in the README.
> 
> It's Southern OB for the 20x16x23 setup.
> File name is arbitrary, file content purely for testing purposes,
> you shouldn't worry too much about it.
> 
> Cheers
> -Patrick
> 
> 
> 
>> thanks,
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ==  Caroline Papadopoulos         Physical Oceanography Research  
>> Division
>> ==			  	  Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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>> ==  email:caroline at ucsd.edu       University of California, San Diego
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==  Caroline Papadopoulos         Physical Oceanography Research Division
==			  	  Scripps Institution of Oceanography
==  office:450 Nierenberg Hall    9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0230
==  email:caroline at ucsd.edu       University of California, San Diego
==  Phone:(858) 822-2726          La Jolla, CA 92093-0230
==