[MITgcm-support] Exf package and interpolation in time

[Georges Djoumna]

Dear all,
I'm trying to use the EXF package with interpolation in  time, I have  
100 hourly observed data at  three point in the computational domain,
I've done the interpolation in space ( I've created a binary file  
containing hourly observed data) and I want the code to do the linear  
interpolation in time. The time step for the simulation is 150s.

In data.exf, I've set the startdate1, startdate2 and the period  for  
each forcing . For example
  hfluxstartdate1   = 20050401,
  hfluxstartdate2   = 00000,
  hfluxperiod       = 150.0,

  In data.cal I have
#
# *******************
# Calendar Parameters
# *******************
  &CAL_NML
# TheCalendar='model',
  TheCalendar='gregorian',
  startDate_1=20050401,
  startDate_2=000000,
  &


when the time step is close to the number of observation value, the  
code stop because the binary file contains 100 observed values.

I set #defined verbose in EXF_OPTION and gets
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec:
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_READ_FIELD: opening global file:  
ZWindMet_Erie2002_IDWSpace_2Km.bin
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec:
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec: first, changed, fac:   F    
T   0.10000000D+01
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec: myiter, count0, count1:       
1      2      3
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec:
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  MDS_READ_FIELD: opening global file:  
MWindMet_Erie2002_IDWSpace_2Km.bin
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec:
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec: first, changed, fac:   F    
T   0.10000000D+01
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec: myiter, count0, count1:       
1      2      3
(PID.TID 0000.0001)  exf_GetFFieldsRec:

I doing something wrong somewhere, but I don't know what exactly. Any  
help is welcome.
Thanks so much.

Georges Djoumna