[MITgcm-support] How to pickup when using pkg/cal?

[Michael Schaferkotter]

niter0 is an integer variable according to the manual.

try niter0=262980 -> niter0=262980.  , e.g., replace the real value with the integer value.

michael

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> On Mar 27, 2017, at 19:59, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just ran across the same wonderfully informative error message:
>   "cal_Set: The specifications are incomplete. Please refer
>    to the documentation.”
> that Alistair encountered in 2004 (see attached exchange
> between Alistair and Patrick).  One additional clue is that while
> "niter0=262980.,” causes this bug to show up, the model starts
> fine with "niter0=262944.,”.  Anybody else has encountered this
> bug and/or has an idea how to fix more permanently in pkg/cal?
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Hi P.
> 
> data.cal:
>   &CAL_NML
>   TheCalendar = 'gregorian',
>   startDate_1 = 19990801,
>   startDate_2 = 000000,
>   &
> 
> data.exf:
>   &EXF_NML
> #
>   hfluxstartdate1   = 19990731,
>   hfluxstartdate2   = 000000,
>   hfluxperiod       = 21600.,
> #
>   atempstartdate1   = 19990731,
>   atempstartdate2   = 000000,
>   atempperiod       = 21600.,
> ..
> 
> data:
>   &PARM03
>   nIter0=3600,
>   endTime=432000,
>   deltaTmom=60.,
> 
> Thx,
> 
> A.
> 
> Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> > Hi Alistair,
> > 
> > I use pickups with pkg/cal rather frequently,
> > so it seems to work sometimes.
> > How about you give more info, e.g. contents
> > of your data, data.cal, data.exf files.
> > 
> > Suspicion is your data.cal is somehow screwed up.
> > cal_set tries to combine
> > startdate_1 (YYYYMMDD), startdate_2 (HHMMSS) specifications 
> > with starttime, endtime (or nTimeSteps) to determine run time interval
> > (in seconds).
> > 
> > -Patrick
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   > -----Original Message-----
> >   > From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> >   > [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of 
> >   > Alistair Adcroft
> >   > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:22 AM
> >   > To: MITgcm support
> >   > Subject: [MITgcm-support] How to pickup when using pkg/cal?
> >   > 
> >   > 
> >   > I'm trying to pickup (restart) a run that's using pkg/cal 
> >   > and I get the 
> >   > error message
> >   > 
> >   >   "cal_Set: The specifications are incomplete. Please refer
> >   >    to the documentation."
> >   > 
> >   > It's the sort of helpful error message that I would write 
> >   > but it's not 
> >   > me this time. I checked the pelican documentation 
> >   > (ECCO/cal) and there 
> >   > is no mention of the error nor how to do a pickup. Can 
> >   > someone post the 
> >   > answer?
> >   > 
> >   > A.
> 
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