[mpas-developers] additions to MPAS registry and I/O

[Todd Ringler]

Hi Michael,

The change looks good to me. This would seem to be the time-invariant  
counterpart to variables like xTime.

Cheers,
Todd

On May 5, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Michael Duda wrote:

> Hi, All.
>
> I apologize if this already went through to the mailing list
> yesterday; I suspsect it might not have due to the size of the
> attachments, which I've replaced with references to files in
> a repository branch.
>
> Currently, it's not possible to define a time-invariant, real
> scalar field in the registry; however, I've got a set of changes
> to the registry and framework code that enable this, and I've
> tested them in the context of the mpas_cam_coupling branch.
> Essentially, the changes would make it possible to define
> something like
>
>      var real    ptop ( ) iro ptop - -
>
> that would be accessible in the code as
>
>   block % mesh % ptop % scalar
>
> The files that I'm proposing to commit to the trunk can be found
> in https://svn-mpas-model.cgd.ucar.edu/branches/mpas_cam_coupling
> as:
>
>   src/framework/module_io_input.F
>   src/framework/module_io_output.F
>   src/registry/gen_inc.c
>
> The changes will have no effect on current code, but would just
> expand the dimensionality of fields specifiable in the registry.
> If anyone has any objections or suggestions for improvements,
> please feel free to comment.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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