TIMELESS_DATA

[johnluick]

I happened to notice that (at least with version 3.7) ROMS did not write out the name of the tidal forcing file for a purely tidal-forced run until I changed line 4597 in read_phypar.F
from
#if defined FRC_FILE
to
#if defined FRC_FILE || defined TIMELESS_DATA
Not sure if that was the best fix but it worked.
Looking at the lines in globaldefs.h where FRC_FILE is defined it seemed like this could arise for other cases besides purely tidal.
Of course the program ran fine, it just didn't write out properly.

[arango]

Yes, that would work for your particular set-up. However, the correct way is to modify the internal definition for FRC_FILE in globaldefs.h to:

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/*
** Define internal flag indicating processing of input forcing
** NetCDF file.
*/

#ifdef SOLVE3D
# ifdef BULK_FLUXES
#  ifdef ANA_SMFLUX
#   undef ANA_SMFLUX
#  endif
#  ifdef ANA_STFLUX
#   undef ANA_STFLUX
#  endif
# endif
# if !defined ANA_BTFLUX   || \
    (!defined AIR_OCEAN    && \
     !defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_SMFLUX)   || \
    (!defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_STFLUX)   || \
    ( defined BIOLOGY      && !defined ANA_SPFLUX)   || \
    ( defined BIOLOGY      && !defined ANA_BPFLUX)   || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined LONGWAVE)     || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_PAIR)     || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_TAIR)     || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_HUMIDITY) || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_CLOUD)    || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_RAIN)     || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_WINDS)    || \
    ( defined BULK_FLUXES  && !defined ANA_SRFLUX)   || \
    ( defined LMD_SKPP     && !defined ANA_SRFLUX)   || \
    ( defined SALINITY     && !defined ANA_SSFLUX)   || \
    ( defined SOLAR_SOURCE && !defined ANA_SRFLUX)   || \
   (( defined TS_PSOURCE   || defined UV_PSOURCE     || \
      defined Q_PSOURCE)   && !defined ANA_PSOURCE)  || \
    ( defined  SSH_TIDES   || defined UV_TIDES)      || \
    ( defined BBL_MODEL    && (!defined ANA_WWAVE    && \
     !defined WAVES_OCEAN))                          || \
    ( defined SEDIMENT     && !defined ANA_SPFLUX)   || \
    ( defined SEDIMENT     && !defined ANA_BPFLUX)   || \
    ( defined WAVE_DATA    && (!defined ANA_WWAVE    && \
     !defined WAVES_OCEAN))                          ||
#  define FRC_FILE
# endif
#else
# if !defined ANA_SMFLUX   || \
    ( defined  SSH_TIDES   || defined UV_TIDES)
#  define FRC_FILE
# endif
#endif
 

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will load this correction today.