[mpas-developers] mpas output file naming conventions

[Sara A. Rauscher]

Hi,

I mentioned this to Todd and he suggested I post my user experience to 
the developer team.

I've been running cam-mpas, and revision 983 brought up a small run-time 
hassle. Is there any way to automatically put a unique name on mpas 
output files instead of generic names like "output.nc", "ocean.nc" 
without editing namelist.input every time? For example, they could be 
time stamped by model time (YYYY-MM-DD-HH as in CESM)  or number of time 
steps) or the real-world time at which the job is running.

It's not a big deal during testing, but in production runs it starts to 
be a hassle. I have set my run script to capture the date from the 
latest CAM restart file and sed that into namelist.input so that the 
output files have a unique and meaningful name. It works fine but errors 
can still happen. In production runs, with one misnamed file, or writing 
over an output file, things get messy fast.

thanks
cheers
sara

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[mpas-developers] /home/subversion/mpas/model revision 983
> Date: 	Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:00:48 -0600 (MDT)
> From: 	mpas-developers at ucar.edu
> Reply-To: 	mpas-developers at ucar.edu
> To: 	mpas-developers at ucar.edu
>
>
>
> *ringler at lanl.gov* 2011-09-07 11:00:48 -0600 (Wed, 07 Sep 2011)
>
> add default naming for I/O files
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Modified: branches/ocean_projects/timesplitting_mrp/namelist.input.ocean
> ===================================================================
> --- branches/ocean_projects/timesplitting_mrp/namelist.input.ocean	2011-09-07 15:53:33 UTC (rev 982)
> +++ branches/ocean_projects/timesplitting_mrp/namelist.input.ocean	2011-09-07 17:00:48 UTC (rev 983)
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
>      config_stats_interval = 100
>   /
>   &io
> +   config_input_name = 'ocean.nc'
> +   config_output_name = 'output.nc'
> +   config_restart_name = 'restart.nc'
>   /
>   &restart
>      config_restart_interval = 10000000
>
>
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