[MITgcm-support] EXF package: useExfYearlyFields=.FALSE.

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

Martin, I was about to answer.  You type faster than I do ;-)

Madeline, I tried reproducing the problem that you report with  
verification/lab_sea.
Both repeatPeriod=0 and repeatPeriod=31622400 work fine.

If you give me access to directory where you are running this, I can  
take a look.

D.

On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:04 AM, Martin Losch wrote:

> Madeline,
>
> This is what exf is supposed to do:
> with
> uwindfile = 'mywind.bin',
> it looks for 'mywind.bin', unless you specify
> useEXFYearlyFields = .true.,
> then it looks for 'mywind.bin_????', where ???? is the appropriate
> year (e.g. 1994) according to your settings in data.cal and data.exf
> (parameters startDate_1/2 and uwindstartdate1+2).
> All of this should be independent of the value of repeatPeriod.
>
> What you describe sounds as pkg/exf is not doing what it's supposed to
> do. Can I suggest that you try to reproduce the problem with a simple
> example (maybe one of the verification experiments, e.g. lab_sea,
> global_with_exf)? That would be easier for us to reproduce as well and
> debug.
> Or/and you can send the content of your data.exf and data.cal
>
> Martin
>
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Madeline Miller wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I am trying to use the EXF package with the parameter
>> useExfYearlyFields=.FALSE.
>>
>> When I set this in my data.exf file and specify the file paths to
>> use, the code crashes with the error that my file (s) do not exist.
>>
>> However, if I specify a repeatPeriod > 0, the code seems to run,
>> albeit without printing which files it is reading for the forcing
>> data to the STDOUT (different than when I specifiy
>> useExfYearlyFields=.TRUE.).  It has been independently confirmed
>> that I am specifying the file locations correctly, so it would seem
>> that there is some specification that repeatPeriod can not = 0 with
>> useExfYearlyFields=.FALSE.
>>
>> I can't find the instance in the code which explains why this is
>> happening, and I would like to run it without a repeatPeriod and
>> have it print the read-in file to my STDOUT.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any advice or experience with this sort of
>> configuration?
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Madeline
>>
>> California Institute of Technology
>> Geological and Planetary Sciences
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