[MITgcm-support] ptracers

[Manfredi Manizza]

Dear MITgcm-ers,

This are my questions :

First :

I am trying to do a test run where I restart from pickup files for ocean 
physics (where nIter0=01) but  I DO NOT have the same pickups for
biogeochemical fields so I use observations for initializing 
biogeochemical tracers.

The model complains like  below at the end of the message ?

I can anticipate that I commented the following line :

# PTRACERS_Iter0=0

in data.ptracers

Any trick to make it behave nicely ?


Second :

if it runs (and it does run if starting with nIter=0) BUT it does NOT 
write out the pickups of ptracers, where could it be causing that problem 
?

Thansk in advance.
Manfredi

This is the compalin of the first question :

PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) *** ERROR *** cal_CheckDate: Calendar date before 
predef. reference date
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >> READ_PICKUP:  no field-list found
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >>  try to read pickup as it used to be 
written
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >>  until checkpoint59i (2007 Oct 22)
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >> SEAICE_READ_PICKUP:  no field-list found
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >>  try to read pickup as it used to be 
written
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >>  until checkpoint59j (2007 Nov 25)
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: file: 
pickup_ptracers.0000000001.meta , pickup_ptracers.0000000001.001.001.meta
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >> MDS_READ_META: Files DO not exist
(PID.TID 0000.0001) WARNING >> PTRACERS_READ_PICKUP:  no field-list found