Biotoy testcase error

[cschultz]

Hi everyone!

I`m trying to run the biotoy testcase anda what I did was set the ocean_bio_toy.in file to use:

! Input NetCDF file names, [1:Ngrids].

GRDNAME == /Users/cristinaschultz/ROMS/biotoy_grd.nc
ININAME == /Users/cristinaschultz/ROMS/biotoy_ini_fasham.nc
ITLNAME == /dev/null
IRPNAME == /dev/null
IADNAME == /dev/null
CLMNAME == /dev/null
BRYNAME == /dev/null
FWDNAME == /dev/null
ADSNAME == /dev/null


NFFILES == 1 ! number of forcing files

FRCNAME == /Users/cristinaschultz/ROMS/biotoy_frc.nc ! forcing file 1, grid 1


with the files I downloaded at http://www.myroms.org/index.php?page=Datasets
I also defined BIO_FENNEL on bio_toy.h and undefined ECOSIM. The model compiles with no problem and also runs without any error message, but it doesn`t write any output files. On the terminal it shows:

ROMS/TOMS - Input error ............. exit_flag: 2


ERROR: Abnormal termination: NetCDF INPUT.
REASON: No error

There seems to be on the forum some debate over versions of the fasham and ecosim models and also some problems with the files names changing from fennel to fasham, but I have doublechecked the latest version of the inputs I used. Could anyone help me please?

thanks already!

[kate]

Could you double-check your output? There may well be another error message, perhaps above some intervening messages above that reported input error.

[wilkin]

I just ran this test case to see what's wrong and amongst the output is the clue:

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SET_2DFLD  - current model time exceeds ending value for variable: Pair
              TDAYS     =        366.0000
              Data Tmin =          0.0000  Data Tmax =        364.0000

The initial time in the file biotoy_ini_fasham.nc is set to 366 days, which is outside the 0 to 364 days of the forcing file. The initial time in biotoy_ini_ecosim.nc is 0 and that file works OK.

So change that value of ocean_time in biotoy_ini_fasham.nc and this should work (I hope you know how to change the data inside a netcdf file).

I thought the forcing file distributed for this test case used the cycle_length = 365.0 attribute to cycle the time, in which this error would not have occurred (ROMS would have extracted day=1 from the forcing file to correspond to ocean_time=366).

We will make changes to these files and place corrected versions at http://www.myroms.org/index.php?page=Datasets soon.

[arango]

I updated and added the BIO_TOY input NetCDF file to the svn repository. The grid, initial conditions, and forcing files are now located in Data/ROMS/Grid, Data/ROMS/Initial, and Data/ROMS/Forcing, respectively. Check the following trac ticket for details.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Please update.

[cschultz]

I tried changing the ocean_time on the old file and also tried running with the new file. They both worked just fine! Thank you very much!