Limitations and Known Issues
Limitations
The limitations of the code are:
One can use the unit tests to check if ESMF8.0.0 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.
The start/stop time of MITgcm, WRF, and ESMF are set up separately. If they are not consistent, there might be errors reported. For example, if the stop time in MITgcm is earlier than ESMF, the diagnostic package will first report an error and stops the coupled run.
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)
When debuging the code, please see here: