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On Aug 22, 2017, at 1:46 AM, rahele shafiee <<a href="mailto:rahele_shafiee@yahoo.com">rahele_shafiee@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">HI </span> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dimitris</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">I am a MITgcm user. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">It's been a few days that I can not post messege to the site MITgcm.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks
if you help me.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">I'm running the “flt_example” test case in the MITgcm. I'm very confused and there is no explanation about this test case in the manule. I
have some questions. Thanks for helping me.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">1- If nsx=nsy=2 selected, four outputs are created (e.g. float_traject.data, floar_profiles.data , …). How can I get these outputs in
a file and have an output “profile” and an output “traject” . I used the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">python gluemncbig -o a.data float_profiles.001.0000*</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">But the following error was given:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> File "gluemncbig", line 1206, in <module></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> raise IOError('No files matching {0}', globpatt)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">IOError: [Errno No files matching {0}] float_profiles.001.0000*</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">This command runs error-free for the NETCDF files.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">2- How to choose the parametric “flt_noise”?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">3- How to design an ” flt_file” input file for my domain floats? Does this file determine the coordinates of the floats? This file is
presented “flt_ini_pos.bin” in the test case and there are 2539 record in it.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">4- In the outputs, the file float_profiles.meta is presented as follows:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">nDims = [ 3 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> dimList = [</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 1, 1, 1,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 1, 1, 1,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 41, 1, 41</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> dataprec = [ 'float32' ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> nrecords = [ 141 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> timeStepNumber = [ 18 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">What does the number 41 and the 141 number of nrecords mean?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">And the file is presented as follows:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">nDims = [ 3 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> dimList = [</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 1, 1, 1,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 1, 1, 1,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> 13, 1, 13</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> dataprec = [ 'float32' ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> nrecords = [ 421 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> timeStepNumber = [ 18 ];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">What does the number 13 and the 421 number of nrecords mean?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#26282A">I apologize for asking my questions. I'm really confused.</span></p>
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