[MITgcm-support] obcs with irregular boundary

Jean-Michel Campin jmc at ocean.mit.edu
Fri Oct 5 05:17:56 EDT 2012


Hi Jan,

How old is your MITgcm code ? There was few recent changes in pkg/obcs
that were just targetting "irregular" OB.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:05:18AM +0100, De Rydt, Jan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I spent some time with the OBCS package trying to implement an irregular eastern boundary, i.e., OB_Ieast(j) is varying with j (see data.obcs below). I was unsuccessful in getting this to run, and the kind of errors I get look like this:
> 
> (PID.TID 0108.0001) *** ERROR *** S/R OBCS_CHECK: Inside Mask and OB locations disagree :
> (PID.TID 0108.0001) *** ERROR ***  from insideMask (bi,bj=  1,  1) expects OBE=   16 @ j=    2 
> 
> What puzzles me is that the insideMaskFile seems to be defined from the OB list of indices, whereas the errors suggest that the interior mask is inconsistent with the OB list of indices...
> 
> Perhaps somebody has more insight in what is going wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jan
> 
> 
> # ***************
> # data.obcs
> # ***************
> 
> &OBCS_PARM01
>  OB_Iwest = 90*1.,
>  OB_Ieast = -15.0,-15.0,-11.0,-10.0,-8.0,-7.0,-6.0,-5.0,-5.0,-4.0,-4.0,
>             -3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,-3.0,
>             -3.0,-4.0,-4.0,-5.0,-5.0,-6.0,-7.0,-8.0,-9.0,-10.0,-11.0,-12.0,
>             -13.0,-14.0,-15.0,-15.0,-16.0,-17.0,-18.0,-18.0,-18.0,-19.0,-19.0,
>             -21.0,-22.0,-23.0,-21.0,-21.0,-21.0,-21.0,-21.0,-21.0,-22.0,-22.0,
>             -23.0,-24.0,-19.0,-18.0,-17.0,-16.0,-16.0,-15.0,-15.0,-14.0,-14.0,
>             -14.0,-14.0,-14.0,-14.0,-14.0,-14.0,-13.0,-13.0,-13.0,-14.0,-14.0,
>             -14.0,-14.0,-14.0,-15.0,-15.0,-16.0,-16.0,-17.0,-18.0,-19.0,-19.0,
> #
>  useOBCSprescribe = .true.,
> #
>  OBWtFile='OBWt.bin',
>  OBWsFile='OBWs.bin',
> #
>  OBEtFile='OBEt.bin',
>  OBEsFile='OBEs.bin',
>  OBEuFile='OBEu.bin',
>  OBEvFile='OBEv.bin',
> #
>  OBCS_balanceFacW = 1.,
>  OBCS_balanceFacE = 0.,
> #
> &
> 
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