Limitations and known issues

Limitations

The limitations of the code are:

• One can use the unit tests to check if ESMF7.0.0 is successfully built. The coupled code can be successfully compiled even a few unit tests failed. We don’t know which specific tests must pass for the coupled code.

• MITgcm is quite flexible and the current coupler cannot cover every situation in MITgcm. The developers are still trying to make the code to cover all the modeling conditions in MITgcm.

• The WRF implements are based on WRF I/O streams. The implementations may change the I/O streams of WRF (io_esmf) and disable the modeling of some cases in the WRF tutorial.

• Now WRF only accepts RRTMG shortwave/longwave option (because WRF is coupled based on I/O streams)

Known issues

There are currently no major issues with the code. If the user have any issues with the code, please contact: Rui Sun (rus043@ucsd.edu) or Aneesh Subramanian (aneeshcs@gmail.com)