[mpas-developers] iro for tracers ….. bug or feature?

[Doug Jacobsen]

Hey Todd,

I think this is because super arrays can't have mixed input/output states.
It's all or nothing, because they are all packaged into a single field type.

It most likely uses the last tracer's iro values to determine if it's
input/output/restart. So, I bet if you took the o off salinity and then put
temperature below salinity you would get them both written out.

It seems like this is more like a feature than a bug, because of the way
super arrays currently work. Super arrays are a bit more restrictive in
terms of what you can and can't do with them, but they are more useful than
having all of the tracers be their own fields.

Doug

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Laura Fowler <laura at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Todd:
> I removed a bunch of outputs from the core_nhyd_atmos Registry to start
> long Regional Climate Simulations with mesh refinements (as you did).
> I'll double check to see if I am getting the same bug or feature !
> Cheers,
> Laura
>
> On 10/26/12 8:31 AM, Todd Ringler wrote:
> > possible bug report ....
> >
> > I am using the ocean core on the trunk. I changed Registry to remove the
> output of salinity
> >
> > var persistent real    temperature ( nVertLevels nCells Time ) 2 iro
> temperature state tracers dynamics
> > var persistent real    salinity ( nVertLevels nCells Time ) 2 ir
>  salinity state tracers dynamics
> >
> > and to my surprise neither salinity nor temperature was written to
> output! These are the only two fields packed in the tracers super structure.
> >
> > If I turn back on salinity output with iro, I then get both fields in
> the output.
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