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VALID-12_CLEVY_CoupledInterface

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  1. Summary
  2. Abstract
  3. Implementation
  4. Reference manual and web pages updates
  5. Preview
  6. Tests
  7. Review

Summary

Action VALID-12_CLEVY_CoupledInterface
PI(S) C. Levy

Digest

Validation of NEMO coupled interface, using OASIS in the trunk (as future 4.0 release)

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Ticket #2147
Branch NEMO/branches/$YEAR/dev_r{REV}_{ACTION_NAME}
Previewer(s) S. Masson, R. Hill, E. Maisonnave
Reviewer(s) S. Masson, R. Hill, E. Maisonnave
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Abstract

The NEMO OASIS interface is important for all coupled configurations. Testing that this section (mainly the coupling activated) is functional must be done before the 4.0 announcement.

Implementation

To check if the coupling interfaces are functional, three steps/tests will be set up:

STEP1: Validation of the SAS reference configuration

STEP2: Set up a test using NEMO (starting from the global reference configuration) with key_coupled, OASIS active and a toy atmospheric model

STEP3: Using this configuration, check that the coupled interface is functional for ocean dynamics, sea ice and biogeochemistry

Reference manual and web pages updates

Not done yet

Preview

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For this taks, no development is scheduled: the goal is only to check that the coupling interface of NEMO 4.0 is working.
The advice of previewer on the list of proposed tests is of course welcome.

Tests

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TEST1: Validation of the SAS reference configuration

The reference configuration ORCA2_SAS_LIM has run sucessfully for one year using the set up defined in the NEMO shared reference (NEMO trunk rev 10272).
It has been compared with a one year run of the forced reference configuration ORCA2_ICE_PISCES (NEMO trunk rev 10272).

Validation of the results:

  • Some questions raised on the forced configuration itself, see below
  • After one year experiment, the outputs and ice restart files created in the SAS run make sense
  • Having a complete an exact validation of this configuration will need some more work: here the ice is forced with an ocean input file containing the surface fields. These fields are not varying with time for now in the input file. To have a complete validation, it would need:
    • to run a one year of ORCA2_ICE_PISCES full reference configuration, with outputs of these daily surface fields
    • to use this output as input to the SAS configuration
    • to make some subtle changes in SAS in order to have the exact same use of these fields in time (not the case for now, work done once by Sébastien and Eric, remaining to be taken in account again
    • Once all this is done, the ice restart file should be strictly identical between the ORCA2_ICE_PISCES run and the ORCA2_SAS_LIM one

This work has not been done at this stage, so that for now the conclusion is:
The ORCA2_SAS_LIM configuration is running in NEMO 4.0, e.g. the SAS interface is functionnal in this case.

Comments on forced reference configuration ORCA2_ICE_PISCES :
The reference configuration is set up to start from rest (e.g. the very initial start, no ocean restart at all). In this case, using a call frequency of the ice =3 , nn_fsbc=3, is unstable: the run crashes after a few tenth of timesteps. Using nn_fsbc=5 (e.g. ice called every 5 timesteps, inducing less high frequencies in the forcing since the mean value used is calculated on a longer time scale), the model runs fine. This instabilities was not expected in the ORCA2 configuration, usually considered as very stable. Still this nn_fsbc=5 values has always been used up to now...
Once the ocean has started, after a few years, it seems that the nn_fsbc=3 option is indeed stable enough.

TEST2: Set up a test using NEMO (starting from the global reference configuration) with key_coupled, OASIS active and a toy atmospheric model

Using this configuration, check that the coupled interface is functional for ocean dynamics, sea ice and biogeochemistry

Validation: Outputs available here. The NETCDF file of SST seen by the toy atmosphere ATSSTSST_toyatm_01.nc looks reasonable, see pot of Sea surface temperature seen by the atmospheric toy :



The global 2° configuration in a very simple coupled mode using OASIS is running fine with NEMO 4.0, e.g. the OASIS interface between ocean dynamics, sea ice and atmosphere is functionnal.

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Summary

As a result of the tests, a few things needs to be updated/fixed:

  • sbccpl.F90
  • namelist_ref

A new test case has been build with a toy for the atmosphere (proposed name for this new test case: YAZD, for Yardstick Atmosphere to Zero a Demonstrator, since yazd is an oasis in Iran...). It is proposed to add this configuration in the list of available test cases.

Review

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Eric Maisonnave


Assessments:

  • Is the proposed methodology now implemented? -yes-
  • Are the code changes in agreement with the flowchart defined at preview step? -yes-
  • Are the code changes in agreement with list of routines and variables as proposed at preview step? -yes-
  • Is the in-line documentation accurate and sufficient? -yes-
  • Do the code changes comply with NEMO coding standards? -don't know-
  • Is the development documented with sufficient details for others to understand the impact of the change? -yes-
  • Is the project literature (manual, guide, web, …) now updated or completed following the proposed summary in preview section? -don't know-

Finding:

  • Is the review fully successful? If not, please indicate what is still missing

TEST1: the intermediate step is completed. the review is fully successful

TEST2: It should be mentioned that coupling validation is also done for sea-ice (but not biogeochemistry) related coupling fields.

The atmosphere toy model sources should be distributed within the NEMO directory (tools ?) the review is fully successful


R Hill review comments:

  • I agree with the need to be explicit about which revision(s) of OASIS3-MCT have been used in testing and therefore which revisions of the coupler are officially supported by NEMO.
  • Items discussed by email with Eric include the simple changes necessary to sbccpl.F90 referred to above to allow NEMO to be compatible with both OASIS3-MCT vn3.0 and vn4.0.
  • 2nd order conservative remapping using coupling field gradient terms is not explicitly catered for or tested (at least not in the ocean->atmosphere direction). This is fine, but worth explicitly mentioning in documentation.
  • Also worth mentioning in documentation that when using OASIS3-MCT vn4.0, 1st order conservative regridding cannot use weights files containing 2nd order terms (and of course 2nd order regridding cannot use 1st order weights).

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