[MITgcm-support] TAF naming convention for adjoint variables

[Daniel Goldberg]

many thanks ralf. this is very helpful.

dan

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:49 AM, Ralf Giering <Ralf.Giering at fastopt.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
>
>
> TAF has some options to change the naming convention.
>
> The option -admark <string> changes the default '_ad' string.
>
> The option -prefix tells TAF to prepend the string instead of appending it.
>
> So the old convention can be triggered by:
>
> ./staf -admark ad -prefix .....
>
> But in this case the generated file name also changes to adfile.f instead
> of file_ad.f .
>
> Please note that the names given in flow directives might not fit anymore.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
> > Hello
>
>
> > I am using TAF and have run into the adjoint variable naming convention
>
> > issue (e.g. theta becomes theta_ad rather than adtheta as it used to).
>
>
> > I know this changed at some point in recent years; the question is, does it
>
> > matter? e.g. the admonitor() s/r uses the variables in adcommon.h using the
>
> > old convention. I came across this submission to the devel list:
>
>
> > http://mailman.mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2016-September/006695.html
>
>
> > which notes the change in notation (but seems to indicate it is not an
>
> > issue, and does not seem to mention a workaround). Is there a way to revert
>
> > to the old notation that i am not using?
>
>
> Many thanks
>
> Dan
>
>
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