[MITgcm-support] passive tracer restoring

Saeid Esmaeilpour saeidesmaeilpour at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 14:56:47 EDT 2017


Hi everyone,
would you please tell me how can I use Pickup file in my TestCase? should I
make it? or I have to transfer one pickup file from another TestCase to my
own TestCase?
how can I define Pickup file?
thank you,

Saeid

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:27 AM, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:

> Hi Qian,
>
> if the range valid tracer values is [0,someMax], then the function should
> return the correct values, i.e. zero for the minimum. I am not sure what
> you are trying to do. I can think of two options
> (1) you don’t want to take into account tracer values of exactly 0 (which
> does not make too much sense to me), then your code does what you want.
> (2) you don’t want the zero values on dry cells to contribute (they are
> all zero), but zero tracer values in the model interior (wet cells) are OK;
> in this case you should use maskC(I,J,k,bi,bj) instead of ptracers in the
> if-statement.  That’s how the the monitor package does it. If you don’t
> want to take the values on the open boundaries into account either, then
> you need to use maskInC(i,j,bi,bj)*maskC(bi,bj,k,bi,bj) instead of
> maskC(I,J,k,bi,bj)
>
> Martin
>
>
> > On 27. Jul 2017, at 14:28, 钱钰坤 <qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Yes, I should put the call of the S/R outside the bi/bj loop.
> >
> > As for the ptracer = 0 problem, there are two points.
> >
> > 1) the theMax and theMin values are, in general, initialized by the
> possible minimum and maximum values respectively, in order to get the
> extrema.  Now they are initialized by +/-1. _d 23, which may not be the
> maximum/minimum possible number for both real4 (order of magnitude ~38) or
> real8 (order of magnitude ~308) types.  For a tracer like the
> streamfunction, the order of magnitude may exceed this, and then the
> extrema returned may be incorrect.  Are there any predefined constants that
> can be used to initialize the max/min values without worrying about the
> real4 or real8 type?
> >
> > 2) the if statement for ptracer = 0 is added because without it I always
> get zero for theMin, while theMax is OK.  Since there is no _GLOBAL_MIN_RL,
> you told me a solution of finding the max of minus theMin.  In my case,
> ptracer are all positive.  Once taking the minus, they all be negative.  At
> the boundary there are zeros in ptracer field.  So MAX S/R finally gets 0
> and return it.  If adding a IF statement is not the best, then can you
> suggest another way to fix it?
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > ------------------
> > Best regards
> >
> > Yu-Kun Qian (钱钰坤)
> > Center for Monsoon and Environment Research
> > Department of Atmospheric Sciences
> > School of Environmental Science and Engineering
> > Sun Yat-sen University
> > No. 135 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District
> > Guangzhou, 510275, P.R. China
> > Tel; 020-84115227
> > Email: qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------
> > 发件人: "Martin Losch"<Martin.Losch at awi.de>;
> > 发送时间: 2017年7月27日(星期四) 晚上6:28
> > 收件人: "MITgcm Support"<mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>;
> > 主题: Re: [MITgcm-support] passive tracer restoring
> >
> > Hi Qian,
> >
> > looks good except that you use the bi/bj-loops twice. Because you want
> to do global max, you need to have call your new routine after the end of
> the bi/bj loops and do the bi/bj loops inside the routine, see attached
> code:
> >
> > C--    End of 2nd bi,bj loop
> >        ENDDO
> >       ENDDO
> >
> > C     miniufo added: call regularization
> > #ifdef ALLOW_PTRACERS
> >         IF (usePTRACERS)
> >      &  CALL PTRACERS_REGULARIZE( myTime, myIter, myThid )
> > #endif
> >
> > (1) I am not sure why you need to have this if statement for ptracers =
> 0 if you want to allow negative values at the same time, but that’s beyond
> my comprehension of this parameterization. If you jus want to mask land
> values it would make more sense to use maskC instead of ptracers.
> > (2) In the attached code I added the k-loop (inside the bi/bj-loop) to
> compute max/min of 3D fields. As long as you run only with one level, you
> can use the code as it is (I did not check it even for compilation errors).
> [If you want min/max of 2D slices, you’ll have to move the k-loop outside
> of the bj-bj loops, basically just one big k-loop for the entire routine,
> but I guess that’s not what you want]
> > (3) halos are for parallelization only. Check out the manual for an
> explanation (Software Architecture: <http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_
> manual/latest/online_documents/node181.html>). maskInC is 2D (only
> surface) and excludes points along open boundaries (“In” is "interior of
> the domain without open boundaries). If you want to use it on a 3D field,
> you need to use maskInC(i,j,bi,bj)*maskC(bi,bj,k,bi,bj)
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 27. Jul 2017, at 10:32, 钱钰坤 <qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn> wrote:
> > >
> > > Oops, missing attached files again...
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Yu-Kun Qian (钱钰坤)
> > > Center for Monsoon and Environment Research
> > > Department of Atmospheric Sciences
> > > School of Environmental Science and Engineering
> > > Sun Yat-sen University
> > > No. 135 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District
> > > Guangzhou, 510275, P.R. China
> > > Tel; 020-84115227
> > > Email: qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------
> > > 发件人: "qianyk"<qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn>;
> > > 发送时间: 2017年7月27日(星期四) 下午4:26
> > > 收件人: "mitgcm-support"<mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>;
> > > 主题: Re: Re: [MITgcm-support] passive tracer restoring
> > >
> > > Hi Martin,
> > >
> > > Sorry for a bit delay as I spent some time to give a try.  Thanks very
> much for your code snippet.
> > >
> > > As you suggested, I added a S/R PTRACERS_REGULARIZATION.F (using
> PTRACERS_INTEGRATE.F as template) in the code directory
> > > and then make a call at the end of TRACERS_CORRECTION_STEP.F.  I've
> attached both files so that you may find some silly bugs or
> > > redundant statements (e.g., #INCLUDE).
> > >
> > > There are still some problems when I run these codes:
> > > 1) The theMin value is always zero.  I think this is related to the
> default undefined value of zero used by the model.  So I added an IF as:
> > >            theMax = -1. _d 23
> > >            theMin =  1. _d 23
> > >
> > >            DO bj = myByLo(myThid),myByHi(myThid)
> > >            DO bi = myBxLo(myThid),myBxHi(myThid)
> > >              DO j = 1, sNy
> > >              DO i = 1, SNx
> > >                IF (pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer) .NE. 0. _d 0) THEN
> > >                  theMax = MAX(pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer), theMax)
> > >                  theMin = MIN(pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer), theMin)
> > >                ENDIF
> > >              ENDDO
> > >              ENDDO
> > >            ENDDO
> > >            ENDDO
> > >     so that the zero values of the ptracer do not enter the MAX/MIN
> funcitons.  Besides, the theMax is initialized with negative theMin
> > >     (rather than 0 as you suggest), in case tracer values are all
> negative.
> > >
> > > 2) Currently, I running the model with only one level.  In the future,
> I may use a multi-level setup.  How to code the k-loop if I want to
> > >     find the max/min value of a 3D tracer field?  Is it OK just adding
> a k-loop outside the bi/bj loop?
> > >
> > > 3) I don't get the concept of halo regions.  Are they similar to
> isolated lakes from the ocean?  As you mentioned you only use interior
> > >     of the domain, do you mean that the maskInC is preferred (rather
> than maskC)?
> > >
> > > Thanks again.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Yu-Kun Qian (钱钰坤)
> > > Center for Monsoon and Environment Research
> > > Department of Atmospheric Sciences
> > > School of Environmental Science and Engineering
> > > Sun Yat-sen University
> > > No. 135 Xingang West Road, Haizhu District
> > > Guangzhou, 510275, P.R. China
> > > Tel; 020-84115227
> > > Email: qianyk at mail3.sysu.edu.cn
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------
> > > 发件人: "Martin Losch"<Martin.Losch at awi.de>;
> > > 发送时间: 2017年7月20日(星期四) 下午4:17
> > > 收件人: "MITgcm Support"<mitgcm-support at mitgcm.org>;
> > > 主题: Re: [MITgcm-support] passive tracer restoring
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > so your method is not really a restoring method, but a regularization,
> isn’t it?
> > > Currently, you do this only for the surface layer (according to your
> code). If this is what you want, I suggest that you write the min/max
> yourself and don’t use the expensive mon_calc_stats_rl, which will compute
> the min/max of the full 3D field. Also by placing it in to
> ptracers_integrate, you repeat the computation for every process and call
> the global reductions from within the bi/bi loops. This will only work of
> you use one tile per MPI process (which you probably do).
> > > We have functions for the global_max reductions. I would also use only
> the interior of the domain (without the overlaps or halos, who knows what’s
> in there at this stage, at best copies of some interior values, update of
> the halos will be done afterward in the blocking_exchange routines) and I
> would put the code somewhere outside the bi/bj-loops, e.g. at the end of
> tracers_correction_step.F; there I suggest to put this code (to be really
> clean, put it into a subroutine PTRACERS_REGULARIZE or similar):
> > >
> > > C     need to include PTRACERS.h PTRACERS_SIZE.h and define the
> appropriate
> > > C     variables here
> > >       DO iTracer = 1, PTRACERS_numInUse
> > >        k = 1
> > >        theMax = 0. _d 0
> > >        theMin = 1. _d 23
> > >        DO bj=myByLo(myThid),myByHi(myThid)
> > >         DO bi=myBxLo(myThid),myBxHi(myThid)
> > >         DO j=1,sNy
> > >          DO i=1,sNx
> > >           theMax = MAX(pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer),theMax)
> > >           theMin = MIN(pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer),theMin)
> > >          ENDDO
> > >         ENDDO
> > >        ENDDO
> > > C   There is no  _GLOBAL_MIN_RL( theMin, myThid )
> > >        theMin = -theMin
> > >        _GLOBAL_MAX_RL( theMin, myThid )
> > >        theMin = -theMin
> > >        _GLOBAL_MAX_RL( theMax, myThid )
> > > C     now you have the max/min values for layer k
> > >        maxInit = ...
> > >        minInit = ...
> > >        DO bj=myByLo(myThid),myByHi(myThid)
> > >         DO bi=myBxLo(myThid),myBxHi(myThid)
> > >          DO j=1,sNy
> > >           DO i=1,sNx
> > >            pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer) = ( minInit +
> > >      &          ( maxInit - minInit ) * (
> > >      &          pTracer(i,j,k,bi,bj,iTracer) - theMin
> > >      &          ) / ( theMax - theMin ) ) * maskInC(i,j,bi,bj)
> > >      &
> > >           ENDDO
> > >          ENDDO
> > >         ENDDO
> > >        ENDDO
> > > C     tracer loop
> > >       ENDDO
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope I am making sense,
> > >
> > > Martin
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