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4      Notes on tags used in MITgcmUV      Notes on tags used in MITgcmUV
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6    
7    o pkg/exf: fix a serious bug in exf_set_uv.F: do a rotation of the
8      interpolated wind field not only for curvilineargrid=.true., but also
9      for a rotated grid (rotateGrid=.true.)
10    o pkg/exf: add capability to bypass interpolation for runoff
11      by setting yet another CPP-flag
12    o autodiff
13      new CPP option ALLOW_TAMC_SINGLEPREC_COMLEV
14      allows to switch to single-prec common blocks;
15      corresponding switch occurs in tamc.h, integer isbyte
16      TAF store directivs "byte" and "kind" seem equivalent;
17      Most tamc.h have been updated correspondingly.
18    
19    checkpoint61i
20    o autodiff:
21      fix autodiff_sore/_restore indices for obcs
22      (spotted by I. Hoteit, M. Mazloff)
23    o pkg/autodiff, pkg/ctrl:
24      Add flag to reduce all tapelev I/O to single-prec.
25      In data.ctrl set
26        doSinglePrecTapelev = .TRUE.
27    o model/src/ini_curvilinear_grid.F: check in hack for SX8 compiler
28      to make sure that recip_dxV and recip_dyU are never zero, until we
29      have a proper exchange for them. Most compilers do not seem
30      to mind divisions by zero in the overlaps, as long as the results are
31      not used anywhere, but sxf90 does.
32    o pkg/shelfice: fix bug with SHELFICEconserve flag, prepare for
33      real fresh water flux (not yet)
34    o pkg/mdsio & rw:
35     - add argument & option to S/R MDS_WRITEVEC_LOC (avoid Open/Close & write-meta)
36     - add simple interface S/R to MDS_WRITEVEC_LOC in pkg/rw: WRITE_GLVEC_RX.
37    o pkg/flt:
38     - replace FLT_INIT by 3-steps standard initialization S/R: readparms,
39       init_fixed & ini_varia.
40     - clean-up & simplify linear interpolation S/R:
41       move flt_bilinear.F -> flt_interp_linear.F ; add arg. myThid.
42     - fix some indices (mainly vertical index) ; add IMPLICIT NONE.
43     - more efficient I/O, using new options of MDS_WRITEVEC_LOC S/R.
44     - add vert. coordinate & horiz. indices to output files.
45     - change vertical position in initial condition, from index to depth [m].
46     - store horizontal (decimal) indices i,j in common block (instead of coord. x,y)
47       (easier to get to a curvilinear grid) ; delX,delY no longer used.
48    o pkg/ggl90: a few modifications:
49     - fix bottom boundary condition, and interpolation of KappaE
50       near top and bottom
51     - use same set of viscosity/diffusivity for TKE/momnetum/tracer
52     - add smoothing option as in Blanke and Delecluse (1993) (--> ALLOW_GGL90_SMOOTH)
53     - add a few options for mixing-length upper limit (--> mxlMaxFlag)  
54    o rename thetaMin,phiMin -> xgOrigin,ygOrigin
55      (maintain temporary backward compatibility, until next checkpoint)
56    
57    checkpoint61h
58    o pkg/diagnostics with "periodic averaging diagnostics":
59      fix S/R DIAGNOSTICS_COUNT ; hack diagnostics_out.F to get NetCDF output.
60    o pkg/my82: add missing "_d 0" ; update output of exp. vermix.my82
61    o pkg/obcs: fix loop ranges for balancing code
62    o pkg/flt:
63     - improve criteria for finding which tile owns a float.
64     - fix FLT_EXCH for case without MPI ; apply cyclic BC + fix also the MPI case.
65    o Add well-mixed CO2 box in aim_v23 (which includes changes in pkg
66      aim_compon_interf, ocn_compon_interf, gchem, and dic to get coupling
67      with ocean biogeo)
68    o pkg/flt:
69     - do some cleaning and fix the restart ;
70     - add output.txt in flt_example/results to get this pkg tested.
71    o genmake2: add an EXTENDED_SRC option and flag.
72       for now, cannot be turned on on command line (only through genmake_local)
73    o pkg/mdsio: read/write vector:
74     - singleCpuIO: fix RL/RS in MDSWRITEVECTOR by calling new S/R MDS_BUFFERtoRL/RS
75     - singleCpuIO=F: fix arrType & filePrec & _BYTESWAPIO in both MDSREADVECTOR
76       & MDSWRITEVECTOR by calling new S/R MDS_RD/WR_VEC_RL/RS.
77     - affects gradient of test-exp "bottom_ctrl_5x5" (not due to _BYTESWAPIO)
78      (drop to 4 digits matching for grad). But this test does not look very
79      reliable (was already failling on eddy, fc5, at 6.digits). Update output.
80    
81    checkpoint61g
82    o pkg/flt:
83      - move FLT_CPPOPTIONS.h to FLT_OPTIONS.h (standard name)
84       + make OPTIONS file more standard.
85      - rename S/R MDSREADVECTOR_FLT to FLT_MDSREADVECTOR (to mach src file name)
86      - fix _BYTESWAPIO CPP-Flag
87      - standard reading of file-parameter "data.flt"
88      - fix argument list of S/R FLT_RESTART
89      still need to fix _BYTESWAPIO in pkg/mdsio/mdsio_writevector.F
90    o pkg/obcs: fix a CPP-flag, bug reported by Jeff Blundell
91    o gather_2d.F/scatter_2d.F: suppress vectorisation on NEC SX in respond to
92      a still unfixed compiler/optimization bug
93    
94    checkpoint61f
95    o pkg/seaice, LSR solver: fix bug in GLOBAL_MAX calls ;
96      update results of global_ocean.cs32x15.icedyn test.
97    o move getcon.F from model/src to pkg/fizhi.
98    o pkg/exf: add parameter for extrapolation of temp up to the surface
99       and option to prevent negative evap (in bulk_largeyeager04 only).
100    o Prather Advection scheme: fix tracer conservation for divergent flow
101      (e.g., when using NonLin Free-Surface).
102    o kpp: retire KPPmld diagnostics --> use MXLDEPTH instead
103    o gmredi (Visbeck-variable-K):
104     - add more parameters to Visbeck-variable-K.
105     - use a 5 points average for dSigmaR in Visbeck-K calculation
106       (more "homogenous": same stencil and same weights as in dSigmaH)
107     - update output of ideal_2D_oce experiment.
108    o fix CPP-flag REAL4_IS_SLOW, when _RS expands into real*4
109      (#undef REAL4_IS_SLOW)
110     - pkg/mnc/mnc_cw_cvars.F: write _RS-grid variable as netcdf-real*4
111       coordinate variable
112     - pkg/monitor/monitor.F: call mon_printstats_rs for _RS variables
113       (surface forcing fields), removes some of the functionality
114     - model/src/write_grid.F: write _RS variables as RS-netcdf variables
115     - model/src/diags_oceanic_surf_flux.F: fix a few diagnostics, but
116       probably not all: copy _RS surface flux fields to RL field before
117       calling DIAGNOSTICS_FILL
118     - model/inc/CPP_EEMACROS.h: make the _EXCH_*_RS macros expand into
119       real*4 (CALL EXCH_*_RS) versions.
120     - tested in 2 experiments: inverted_barometer & solid-body.cs-32x32x1
121       (generate new output).
122    
123    checkpoint61e
124    o gmredi (Visbeck-variable-K):
125      - fix the "OLD_VISBECK_CALC" option + move the #undef to GMREDI_OPTIONS.h
126      - change computation of Visbeck-K where Slope > Smax :        
127        now: N*min(Slope,Smax) (similar to OLD_VISBECK_CALC with gkw91 taperFct)
128        previously was: M*sqrt(min(Slope,Smax)) ; update ideal_2D_oce output.
129    o bottom-drag in P-coord.: change units of bottomDragLinear & bottomDragQuadratic
130      to be the same as with Z-coord. (i.e., m/s & no-units respectively).
131    o calc_viscosity: fix index range (was wrong for CD-Scheme & explicit Visc)
132    o pkg gmredi, linear & fm07 tapering: put an upper limit on Slope^2 so that Kwz
133      does not become too large (to avoid precision problems in implicit-diffusion
134      solver); update ideal_2D_oce output.
135    o pkg ggl90:
136      - in ggl90_cal.F: compute only one set of visc/diff, used to
137        step forward TKE/T/S/momentum
138      - default value of GGL90viscMax/GGL90diffMax larger and equal (to
139        have Prandlt =1)
140    o gmredi (fm07):
141      - add lower limit on Transition layer thickness + lower limit on 1/lambda
142      - allow to set few more params from data.gmredi
143    o pkg ggl90:
144          - add missing sqrt(2) factor in computation of mixing length
145            scale in ggl90_calc.F
146            (see Eq. (2.35) in Blanke and Delecluse, JPO, 1993)
147    
148    checkpoint61d
149    o adjoint modifs
150      - adapt to new field rhoInSitu
151      - allow to revert from StoreDynVars2D, StoreDynVars3D
152        to individual fields
153        (switches AUTODIFF_USE_OLDSTORE_2D, AUTODIFF_USE_OLDSTORE_3D)
154    o store 3-D (in-situ) density in commom block (DYNVARS.h)
155     - save 1 rho computation.
156     - no longer modify T & S inland when using down_slope pkg.
157    o gad_som : allow to switch to SOM advection for T & S without corresponding
158      pickup files (using new S/R: MDS_CHECK4FILE).
159    o keep removing _BEGIN/_END_MASTER between MDSIO S/R call
160      (for useSingleCpuIO to work in multi-threaded)
161    o pkg/shelfice:
162     - disentangle parameters: retire shelfIceFile in data/PARM05 and substitute
163       with SHELFICEtopoFile in data.shelfice
164     - move code for reading ice shelf topography and modifying hFacC into separate
165       subroutines of the shelfice package
166     - separate initialisation of "fixed" and "variable" variables
167     - kTopC is not (yet) replaced by kSurfC, although this is possible
168    o fix broken diagnostic SIatmFW and changed the units from m/s to kg/m^2/s
169    o add initialisation of deepFac if using Pcoords (new S/R set_grid_factors)
170      and rename:
171      ini_phiref.F          --> set_ref_state.F  (+ set anelastic factors)
172      ini_reference_state.F --> load_ref_files.F (- set anelastic factors)
173    o change FIND_RHO_SCALAR : return rho (instead of rho - rhoConst)
174    
175    checkpoint61c
176    o add option ALLOW_ADDFLUID and run-time selector "selectAddFluid"
177      to add mass source/sink of fluid in the interior (3-D generalisation
178      of oceanic real-fresh water flux).
179    o pkg/monitor: fix recip_dr argument in mon_advcflw2 call (-> advcfl_W_hf_max)
180    o vermix test experiment: switch from LINEAR EOS to MDJWF (not tested before)
181    o new pkg: down_slope
182      density-driven downsloping flow parameterisation (Tellus, 1999, 412-430).
183      - presently, modify T & S inland (dwnslp_calc_rho.F).
184        can be avoided if rho was stored in common bloc and used in calc_phi_hyd.
185      - implementation for ocean in P-coords not tested.
186      - add secondary test to global_ocean.90x40x15 (input.dwnslp) to check this pkg.
187    o move kSurfC,kSurfW & kSurfS from SURFACE.h to GRID.h (next to kLowC)
188      (to facilitate conversion of oceanic pkg to p-coordinate).
189    o change FIND_RHO to FIND_RHO_2D :
190      pass arguments tFld & sFld as local (tile) 2D-arrays ; +fix EOS_CHECK.
191    o new pkg: cheapaml
192    
193    checkpoint61b
194    o exch2:
195      change index bounds in rx2_cube exchanges (new S/R: EXCH2_GET_UV_BOUNDS)
196      - no longer depend on the order sequence (N,S,E,W).
197      - 3rd exchange no longer needed (tested with 24 tiles).
198      - same modif to hand-written adjoint S/R (global_ocean.cs32x15: zero diff)
199      - exch_UV_A-grid readily available (but not yet tested).
200      comment out 3rd exch call and remove copy of V to U at SE & NE face-corners
201      (both are no longer needed) in exch_uv: no effect in forward run; but
202       get truncation error differences with adjoint exch.
203    o exch2:
204     - change index-bounds storage (moved from target to local tile,
205       more intuitive this way) ; rename/remove some variables.
206     - change utils/exch2/matlab-topology-generator & code_mods accordingly.
207    
208    checkpoint61a
209    o exch2/matlab-topology-generator:
210      fix bug in index bounds for N-S internal exchange (hard to tell if this
211      had any effect on the solution).
212    o pkg/mnc: small fix in mnc_handle_err: make sure that length of msgbuf
213      is exceeded
214    o testreport: modify syntax of awk, so that it works also with
215      awk, and not only with nawk and gawk
216    
217    checkpoint61
218    o autodiff
219      Change default for TAF usage by removing argument '-nonew_arg'
220      This changes TAF subroutine argument list (ordering of active var.)
221      Omission of this flag leads to incompatibility w.r.t. TAMC
222      To restore TAMC-compatibility, need following modifs:
223      * use adoptfile tools/adjoint_options/adjoint_tamc_compatibility
224      * use CPP option #define AUTODIFF_TAMC_COMPATIBILITY
225      Tested TAF version is 1.9.22
226      N.B.: exch2 hand-written adjoint code currently not TAMC compatible
227    
228    checkpoint60
229    --->>> This is the last checkpoint for which generating the adjoint
230    --->>> is done via the TAMC-compatibility TAF-flag "-nonewarg"
231    --->>> by default.
232    --->>> Future checkpoints will ommit this flag by default.
233    o pkg/generic_advdiff, os7mp: simplify and avoid division by zero.
234    o pkg/grdchk: Add gradient check to etan0 perturbations.
235    o pkg/exf: read ice area from file (#ifdef ALLOW_ICE_AREAMASK).
236    o pkg/autodiff: more flexibility in zeroadj.
237      model/src: modifying do_oceanic_phys.F accordingly.
238    o pkg/ctrl: Bounds for (kapgm,kapredi,eddypsi) parameter estimation.
239    o model/src and pkg/gmredi: GMREDI_WITH_STABLE_ADJOINT CPP option
240      special setup of gmredi for which the adjoint is stable
241      enough for parameter optimization.
242    o bridging the gap between eddy stress and GM.
243      -> eddyTau is replaced with eddyPsi (eddyTau = f x rho0 x eddyPsi)
244          along with a change in CPP option (now ALLOW_EDDYPSI).
245      -> when using GM w/ GM_AdvForm:
246          The total eddy streamfunction (Psi = eddyPsi + K x Slope)
247          is applied either in the tracer Eq. or in momentum Eq.
248          depending on data.gmredi (intro. GM_InMomAsStress).
249      -> ALLOW_EDDYPSI_CONTROL for estimation purpose.
250      The key modifications are in model/src/taueddy_external_forcing.F
251      pkg/gmredi/gmredi_calc_*F pkg/gmredi/gmredi_*transport.F
252    
253    checkpoint59r
254    o new S/R (pkg/mdsio/mdsio_facef_read.F) reading of sNx+1 x sNy+1 array
255      from per-face file (take S/R READSYMTILE_RS out of ini_curvilinear_grid.F);
256      fix option to read coriolis(@ cell-corner) from files with CS-grid.
257    o pkg/mnc: add some attributes to standard 1D-coordinate variables
258    o pkg/diagnostics: enforce missing_value attribute for scalar variables at
259      mass points, when using mnc for output
260      - add runtime parameter (missing_value, missing_value_int) to override
261        default (which is the value of getcon('UNDEF'))
262    o pkg/mnc: prepare mnc for the actual use of missing values with the
263      diagnostics package: small fix in mnc_cw_readwrite.template and more
264      initialisation of never used fields
265      - replace mnc_common.h and mnc_id_header.h with corresponding upper case
266      versions
267    o pkg/thsice/thsice_ini_vars.F added default initial values so that
268      thermodynamics sea ice solver does not blow up when some initial fields
269      are missing.
270    o move from external_forcing_surf.F to ini_forcing.F
271      the p-coord. hack consisting in using pLoad to set phi0surf ;
272      update output of tutorial_global_oce_in_p (affected @ truncation level).
273    o Freshen up a bit hs94.1x64x5, notably:
274      remove rotationPeriod and tRef=5*0. (adjoint only), and add
275      exactConserv=.TRUE.
276    o pkg/generic_advdiff:
277      change option GAD_ALLOW_SOM_ADVECT to GAD_ALLOW_TS_SOM_ADV which only
278      applies to files where Temperature & Salinity 2nd Order moments are used.
279    o pkg/ptracers: add second-order moment advection schemes (80 and 81);
280      this uses a dynamically allocated internal state data structure
281      (#define PTRACERS_ALLOW_DYN_STATE in PTRACERS_OPTIONS.h)
282      and requires a fortran 90 compiler
283    
284    checkpoint59q
285    o pkg/mom_vecinv: Add energy & enstrophy conserving scheme (selectVortScheme=3)
286       (from Sadourny, described by Burridge & Haseler, ECMWF Rep.4, 1977)
287    o Refresh tutorial_global_oce_biogeo, notably:
288      - change bathymetry (put back seamounts in ACC, use hFacs)
289      - change EOS (POLY3 --> JMD95Z)
290      - use Bryan-Lewis vertical diffusivity
291      - use multidimensional advection
292      - remove old virtual virtual in dic pkg, now done through ptracer pkg
293      - change a couple of parameters in dic pkg
294    o pkg/ctrl: change formula in adctrl_bound.F and add a parameter to ctrl_map_ini_gen.F
295    o pkg/obcs: change default to OBCSfixTopo = .true.,
296      - set OBCSfixTopo=.false. in exp4/input/data.obcs to reproduce old result
297      - replace "debugMode" with "debugLevel .GE. debLevB"
298    o implementation of TAF directives for gchem,cfc,dic
299    o remove "exp5" (replaced by tutorial_deep_convection).
300    o pkg/obcs: add code to fix topography gradients normal to open boundaries;
301      this requires computing the index fields OB_Jn/Js/Ie/Iw in obcs_readparms;
302      the code can be turned on by setting OBCSfixTopo = .true. in data.obcs
303      --> changes results in exp4, seaice_obcs
304    o tutorial_deep_convection :
305      update the set-up and increase resolution and domain size ; start
306      from pseudo initial conditions = output at t=120mn in order to see
307      something happening when running testreport.
308    o pkg/seaice: add os7mp as an advection scheme
309                  add check for advection schemes
310                  add a flag for restoring T and S underneath sea ice
311    o pkg/my82: add netcdf-support and diagnostics
312    o thsice pkg:
313      - Now hsMax limits snow height by turning it into ice following
314        flooding scheme (and now conserving energy)
315      - Slight rewriting of the formula in thsice_calc_thick.F
316      - Parameter rhowi eliminated to be replaced by floodFac = (rhosw-rhoi)/rhos
317      --> changes results of global_ocean.cs32x15.icedyn and global_ocean.cs32x15.thsice
318    
319    checkpoint59p
320    o gchem / dic / cfc :
321      - add useDIC, useCFC , read from "data.gchem" (& hold in GCHEM.h);
322      - add new parameter files: "data.dic" & "data.cfc" ;
323      - various re-arrangement in initialisation & header file ;
324      - fix tutorial_global_oce_biogeo for multi-threaded test.
325    o pkg/dic: test for "pickup_dic" file when restarting ;
326      if no pickup-file, can restart with a re-initialised pH (same as it did
327      before) providing pickupStrictlyMatch is set to False.
328    o change argument list of S/R PTRACERS_WRITE_PICKUP & MYPACKAGE_WRITE_PICKUP
329      + fix call to S/R GGL90_WRITE_PICKUP & DIC_WRITE_PICKUP
330    o add a "warning" (to Error msg file) when an Active Tracer is not using AB-2
331      and staggerTimeStep is off (needed for stability of Internal-wave dynamics).
332    o move out of PARAMS.h & data the last pieces of old-ptracer code: tauTr1ClimRelax,
333     & lambdaTr1ClimRelax ; put those 2 params in PTRACERS_PARAMS.h & data.ptracers
334       (note: not clear to me what lambdaTr1ClimRelax is still used for ...)
335    o pkg/mom_vecinv: - new parameter "selectVortScheme" to select which
336       scheme to use for vorticty-term ;
337     - compute upwindVorticity=T case within mom_vi_u/v_coriolis_c4.F
338       (with default selectVortScheme, return to original discretisation)
339     - remove weird combination (e.g.: upwindVorticity & highOrderVorticity)
340    o pkg/seaice: add a line to the summary to indicate grid type (B/C)
341    o in mom_calc_visc, fix average value of viscAh_W & viscA4_W next to the
342      bottom ; only used with variable horizontal viscosity and non-hydrostatic.
343      also fix diagnostics VISCAHW & VISCA4W.
344    
345    checkpoint59o
346    o dome/code/obcs_calc.F: avoid division by zero (detected using gfortran).
347    o change the loop ordering in most gad_*_adv_x.F to improve vectorization:
348      move a few statemens out the main loop into separate loops
349    o pkg/shelfice:
350      - sort out freshwater flux; convert freshwater fluxes to mass fluxes
351        (kg/m^2/s), does not break tests, because in verification/isomip,
352        rhoConstFresh=rhoConst (by accident)
353      - rearrange computation of tLoc, sLoc, pLoc to make code more efficient
354      - move S/R find_rho_scalar, pkg/ecco/sw_ptmp.F, pkg/ecco/sw_adtg.F into
355        new file model/src/seawater.F, so that they are available for all pkgs.
356      - convert potential temperature into in-situ temperature. This changes the
357        isomip tests => update tests
358    o add a flag writePickupAtEnd (default=true) to be able to suppress
359      writing a pickup at the last timestep
360    o tools/mpack-1.6 :
361      - disable automake (not working) and autoconf (not needed).
362      - update to version 1.6.4 which fix MD5 code on some 64 bits platforms
363        also cleaner with much less compilation warnings.
364    o pkg/profiles:
365      rename profiles_interp_mean_genericgrid as profiles_interp_mean_gg
366      (for "less than 32 characters name" compiler requirement)
367    o pkg/obcs and pkg/exf: added capability to specify seaice open boundary
368      conditions that have a different sampling frequency than S/T/U/V obcs
369    o pkg/diagnostics (stats-diags):
370      - fix global Min/Max in case 1 processor get only empty tiles
371    o genmake2: replace (4 times)
372         make genmake_tc_1.o >> genmake_warnings 2>&1
373      with
374         COMM="$CC $CFLAGS -c genmake_tc_1.c"
375         echo $COMM >> genmake_warnings
376         $COMM >> genmake_warnings 2>&1
377      to make genmake2 always see the value of CC as specified in the optfile.
378    o generic_advdiff: - prather advection scheme (SOM) coded for CS-grid.
379      - add diagnostics for 1srt & 2nd Order moments and sub-grid variance.
380      - modify verification advect_cs test to test SOM-advection on CS-grid.
381    o pkg/ctrl:
382      - Rewrite of ctrl_map_ini_ecco.F,
383        introducing a generic routine (ctrl_map_ini_gen.F).
384      - Modification of ctrl_bound/adctrl_bound handling control vector bounds.
385    
386    checkpoint59n
387    o pkg/diagnostics: for large number of diagnostics, store diagnostic mate
388      number in dedicate array "hdiag":
389      - new version of S/R DIAGNOSTICS_ADD2LIST : DIAGNOSTICS_ADDTOLIST
390        with 1 more argument (mate number); modify old version DIAGNOSTICS_ADD2LIST.
391      - many small changes (integer format) for large number of diagnostics
392      - start to use DIAGNOSTICS_ADDTOLIST (necessary for diagnostics with
393        a counter mate) in pkg diagnostics, ptracers, thsice & aim_v23.
394    o add parameter rotateGrid and Euler angles EulerPhi/Theta/Psi. For
395      usingSphericalGrid, this allows to define the rotated grid coordinates
396      via phiMin/thetaMin/dxSpacing/dySpacing, etc., but then re-compute the
397      geographical coordinates according to the inverse of the rotation defined
398      by the Euler angles, so that Coriolis parameter and online-interpolation by
399      exf works with the geographical coordinates on XC/YC/XG/YG.
400      Naturally, this feature does not work with all packages, so some
401      combinations are prohibited in config_summary (flt, flt_zonal, ecco,
402      profiles), because there the coordinates are assumed to be regular
403      spherical grid coordinates.
404    o pkg/gmredi,ctrl,ecco,autodiff,grdchk and model/src,inc:
405      - introduce isopycnal diffusion coefficient control.
406    o tools/adjoint_options:
407      - additional control vector components.
408    o pkg/mnc: have mnc create marginally meaning full coordinate variables
409      (that is the grid indices) if usingCurvilinearGrid and NOT EXCH2
410    o pkg/mypackage:
411      - add example of read/write pickup for state-var ;
412      - add entry points to the main code for state-vars diags & write-pickup.
413    o pkg/exf: rewrite of exf_getffieldrec.F to properly deal with year
414      transitions for useExfYearlyFields
415      - add new subroutine that determines the file to read from for
416        use*YearlyFields = .TRUE. and .FALSE.
417      - add a verification experiment to global_with_exf that tests
418        useExfYearlyFields with USE_EXF_INTERPOLATION defined
419    o pkg/obcs/exf: add useOBCSYearlyFields (=.FALSE.) to obcs with exf in
420      analogy to useExfYearlyFields; rearrange obcs_prescribe_read: two new
421      subroutines (which could be generated from a template, because they are
422      almost identical), for now they are included in obcs_prescribe_read.F for
423      simplicity
424    o pkg/exf:
425      - add a little more diagnostic to exf_interp_read (in analogy to
426        mds_read_field, can be turned off with debugLevel < debugLevA=1)
427      - improve vectorizability of exf_interp for TARGET_NEC_SX, makes code
428        ugly but fast by unrolling short inner loops, inserting a unroll=8
429        directive in routine lagran, and splitting a loop and making do while the
430        outermost loop (the latter requires the intoduction of index arrays)
431    o pkg/obcs: replace obcs_apply_area/heff/hsalt/hsnow with obcs_apply_seaice
432    o pkg/seaice: moved DIFFERENT_MULTIPLE from seaice_model to seaice_dynsolver
433      http://forge.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2008-January/003173.html
434    o verification/seaice_obcs: updated for restart test and latest options
435    o pkg/seaice: add a new flag SEAICEuseTEM to use a slightly different
436      ice rheology (so-called truncated ellipse, that gets rid of tensile stress);
437      for now this is only available for the C-grid code and also within
438      #ifdef SEAICE_ALLOW_TEM, because this option may slow down the EVP code
439    
440    checkpoint59m
441    o pkg/seaice: use different time constant for melting (SEAICE_gamma_t)
442      and freezing (SEAICE_gamma_t_frz) ice due to mixed layer temperature
443    o gad_som : fix flux output (& diagnostics) to have same units as other  
444      advection scheme fluxes (was previously multiplied by deltaT).  
445    o added verification/seaice_obcs both to test seaice open boundaries
446      and to provide an example matlab scrpt for generating them
447    o added verification/lab_sea/input.salt_plume for testing pkg/salt_plume
448    o pkg/salt_plume: clean up salt_plume_frac.F to
449      remove redundancy in PlumeMethod 1 and 4
450    o pkg/kpp: added saltplume diagnostics
451    o pkg/obcs and pkg/seaice:
452      - do not set uice and vice to zero when OB*icefile are unspecified
453      - OBCS_SEAICE_AVOID_CONVERGENCE is undefined by default
454      - moved seaice tracer obcs after call to seaice_growth
455    o pkg/salt_plume: added various options for salt plume depth
456      criterion and for vertical distribution of the salt
457    
458    checkpoint59l
459    o pkg/ptracers: new version of ptracers pickup:
460      read meta file and write only fields which are needed to restart.
461      ( same logic as main pickup file ; also using pickupStrictlyMatch )
462    o pkg/seaice:
463      - add timescale for melting due to warm mixed layer as a means of
464        setting SEAICE_availHeatFrac more conveniently
465      - add a CPP-flag/runtime parameter check for flooding algorithm
466      - reformulated availHeat in seaice_growth.F to be independent of AREA
467    o change units attribute of EmPmR netcdf variables to kg/m^2/s to reflect recent
468      unit changes
469    o pkg/obcs: added OBCS_SEAICE_AVOID_CONVERGENCE constraint
470    o cg2d.F: add 3 compiler directives that speed up this routine by 30% on a NEC
471      SX vector computer.
472    o pkg/seaice:
473      - removed SEAICE_FFIELDS.h and seaice_get_forcing.F
474        seaice forcing fields can now be read only through pkg/exf
475      - removed some unused halos
476    o no longer write pickup from THE_MODEL_MAIN but always from FORWARD_STEP
477    o pkg/exf: added useRelativeWind EXF_PARAM.h option for subtracting U/VVEL
478      or U/VICE from U/VWIND before computing U/VSTRESS
479    
480    checkpoint59k
481    o pkg/seaice: ICE2WATR=SEAICE_rhoIce/rhoConst for consistency between
482      dynamics and thermodynamics. Set ICE2WATR=0.92 to reproduce older results.
483    o fix un-initialised variable problem (in mom_vecinv & shap_filt):
484      all experiments pass when compile with un-initialised var. checking option.
485    o added pkg/salt_plume
486    o script to test restart (for now, in MITgcm_contrib/jmc_script)
487    o pkg/seaice: new read/write pickup version.
488      read meta file and write only fields which are needed to restart.
489      ( same logic as main pickup file ; also using pickupStrictlyMatch )
490    o pkg/seaice: fix bug in seaice_ocean_stress (call of seaice_calc_strainrates)
491    o lab_sea.hb87: modify the domain & update output.hb87.txt :
492      lat-long grid & no-slip BC in seaice-dynamics produce different sigma12
493      at j=1 & j=Ny+1 : this case is not treated correctly in the restart
494      process. Fixed here by closing the domain at the Northern boundary.
495    o pkg/rw: cleaning-up: call directly new MDSIO S/R MDS_READ/WRITE_FIELD.
496    o pkg/mdsio: add new arguments to MDS_READ/WRITE_FIELD for reading/writing
497      a set of consecutive levels in/from a 3-D array.
498    o pkg/ptracers:
499      use a 2 characters string ioLabel to identify tracer (if more than 99 tracers).
500      to-do: fix pkg/diagnostics when large number of diagnostics are defined.
501    
502    checkpoint59j
503    o in pkgs: dic, obcs, offline, rbcs:
504      standard way to compute coeff. for time interpolation between 2 time reccords
505      which retains full precision (& make results less dependent on compiler).
506      update output of exp: tutorial_cfc_offline & tutorial_global_oce_biogeo.
507    o pkg/cfc: if compiled with exf and seaice, cfc now can use fields from those
508      packages instead of reading ice cover and wind speed separately
509    o split PTRACERS.h in 2 header files: PTRACERS_FIELDS.h & PTRACERS_PARAMS.h
510     (keep a temporary version of PTRACERS.h in verification/OpenAD/code_ad_openad
511      to allow to compile customized code before the update)
512    o cleaning-up:
513      - fix CPP instruction syntax in pkg/obcs
514      - replace (some) call to MDSIO S/R with call to RW interface S/R ; and
515        add #ifdef ALLOW_MDSIO elsewhere (allows to compile without pkg/mdsio)
516      - fix some threads issue in IO parts.
517    o pkg/dic:
518      - add tons of "_d 0" (--> much better testreports !)
519       and then update outputs of tutorial_global_oce_biogeo
520    o pkg/mom_fluxform:
521      add a special version of momentum advection intended to conserve momentum
522      next to a bathymetry step or a coastline edge. (default = off = #undef)
523    o new read/write pickup version:
524      - for now, only implemented for main (mdsio) pickup file.
525      - write out only what is needed to restart; merge pickup_nh , pickup_ph
526        and main pickup together.
527      - read meta file; read only what is needed to restart; stop if a field
528        is missing (if pickupStrictlyMatch=T, = the default) or try to restart
529        if it make sense (even if the restart is not perfect).
530      - if no meta file, assume that pickup to read corresponds exactly to
531        a pickup that would currently be written.
532      - read pickup written in the old format (until checkpoint59i) if it
533        recognizes an old meta file (no field-list).
534      - add a meta file in exp. which starts from a pickup: 2 cases:
535        a) minimal meta file (with just file precision) + pickupStrictlyMatch=F
536         e.g.: global_ocean.90x40x15/input/pickup.0000036000.meta
537        b) a meta file describing the content of the associated pickup file
538         e.g.: tutorial_global_oce_biogeo/input/pickup.0004248000.meta
539    o pkg/mdsio & pkg/rw:
540      - new routine to read a meta file ; new set of routine to read
541        Multiple-fields file (with meta file).
542    o added open boundary conditions capability for seaice
543        HSNOW, HSALT, UICE, and VICE
544    
545    checkpoint59i
546    o adjoint:
547      * fix multiDimAdvection adjoint
548        (partial recomputation problem by TAF for fVerT(:,:,kDown)
549        and comlev1 size definition (maxpass vs. max. number of tracers)
550      * verification/global_ocean.90x45x15 adjoint now tests
551        NLFS and multiDimAdvection using DST3 (=30)
552      * verification/lab_sea now tests multiDimAdvection using DST3 (=30)
553    o pkg/kpp: add "_d 0" to real constant (if missing);
554      update output of exp: natl_box (10.digits); vermix (std, 7.digits)
555      and lab_sea, 3.FW (only 6,4,6 digits match) & AD (8.digits).
556    o prepare for "clever pickup" implementation: add new header file "RESTART.h"
557      for internal parameters related to restart process (formerly from PARAMS.h)
558      and add startAB parameter to argument list of S/R ADAMS_BASHFORTH2.
559    o more standard interface to {PKG}_WRITE_PICKUP with pickup suffix passed
560      as argument. (only atm2d & obcs write_pickup have not yet been updated)
561    o pkg/monitor:
562      - use GLOBAL_SUM_TILE instead of _GLOBAL_SUM
563      - fix mon_stats_rs (statistics over the full domain, even where field is zero)
564      - account for deep Atmosphere factor and density factor (anelastic)
565    o added open boundary conditions capability for seaice HEFF and AREA
566    o pkg/shelfice: add option for convservative form of Hellmer&Olbers (1989)
567      thermodynamics
568      - requires a little reorganization, which affects the testreport results
569        of isomip.htd (only 7 digits of cg2d agree) => update/modify experiment,
570        so that now the conservative form is tested
571      - add a few comments
572    o add missing cvs Header: or Name: in eesupp/*, pkg/* & verification/code*
573    o add a little bit of code to gad_os7mp_adv_?.F to help vectorization
574    o add new diagnostics to seaice: advective, diffusive fluxes (only for
575      multidim-advection, for scheme 2 they are not filled) and transports,
576      thermodynamic growth rates
577    o change units of EmPmR (inside the code, + within coupling interface)
578      from m/s to kg/m2/s (mass flux) but leave input file unchanged.
579      Affects results @ truncation level (cg2d match) and update output of
580       experiments: lab_sea(6), global_ocean.90x40x15(10),
581      global_ocean.cs32x15(11x3,10), natl_box(11), tutorial_global_oce_latlon(11)
582      + adjoint results: global_ocean_ebm(11) and lab_sea (12).
583      Coupled set-up: allow to restart from previous pickups (cpl_oldPickup=T).
584      Next: will retire convertEmP2rUnit (simply using mass2rUnit instead).
585    
586    checkpoint59h
587    o pkg/exf:
588      - improve vectorization by moving if-statement out of loops in
589        exf_mapfields, exf_radiation
590      - exf_bulkformulae.F: introduce 2D fields and vectorize code
591    o pkg/kpp: added the salt plume scheme (ALLOW_SALT_PLUME) to KPP package
592    o testreport:
593      - allow to test for Qnet & SeaIce monitor output; clean-up ALLOW_BULK_OFFLINE
594        monitor & update offline_exf_seaice exp. output.
595      - AD testing: pass/FAIL according to Grad. output accuracy (instead of Cost)
596    o pkg/seaice:
597      - bug fix in the evp solver: boundary conditions were affected be
598        masking of zMax/zMin (changes results)
599      - minor bug fix in boundary conditions in seaice_calc_strainrates
600        (changes results for no_slip)
601      - seaice_lsr.F: make interpolation of eta dependent on boundaries
602      - replace hardcoded lower limit for zeta (zMin) by runtime parameter
603      - add a test to lab_sea, that tests the Hibler and Bryan (1987) ocean
604        stress formulation and no-slip boundary conditions
605    o pkg/ptracers: Temporary fix for PTRACERS_useGMRedi & PTRACERS_useKPP
606      in gad_calc_rhs.F ; add few safety stops in initialisation phase.
607    o pkg/seaice: a first HSALT time stepping equation has been checked in
608    o pkg/seaice: replaced maskW with seaiceMaskU and maskS with seaiceMaskV
609      in seaice_lsr.F; this solves the pkg/seaice-pkg/obcs problem
610      without requiring DO-IF statements
611    o pkg/thsice:
612      use continuous power-law function for partition of energy between lateral
613      melting/freezing and thinning/thickening ; old code using step function
614      still available with #undef THSICE_FRACEN_POWERLAW
615      update output of exp: aim.5l_cs.thSI, global_ocean.cs32x15.icedyn & .thsice
616    o testreport: change AD testing : check against results/output_adm.txt
617      using same scripts as for forward test.
618    
619    checkpoint59g
620    o adjoint testing: in preparation for changing testreport:
621      - output format: cost and grad written on separated lines
622      - ad output results in directory "results" (instead of "results_ad")
623    o pkg/seaice: adding ice salinity HSALT as a prognostic variable
624    o pkg/seaice: changes for using pkg/seaice with pkg/obcs
625    o pkg/ecco: allow user defined cost function contributions
626    o testreport:
627      Allow to choose (per experiment) the list of tested output variables
628       and the main variable (used to issue a pass/FAIL ) ;
629      - for now, done by adding the specific list in file: [exp]/input/tr_checklist
630      - default is unchanged: >cg2d< , (T,S,U,V,5 tracers)_[min,max,mean,StD] ;
631      Also modify printing of summary:
632       a) ">" NN "<" indicates the "main" variable (used for pass/FAIL)
633       b) echo the list of tested variables in the individual summary.txt of
634          each experiment.
635    o new S/R GLOBAL_SUM_TILE to compute global sum independently of number of
636      threads and number of processes (with #define GLOBAL_SUM_SEND_RECV)
637      (but still depend on the tile decompostion of the domain).
638    o pkg/seaice: change a discretization detail to make the B-grid code
639      "more symmetric". This change is likely to remove all "ridges/leads" that
640      where quasi-aligned with the grid in B-grid solutions. It may also be
641      the solution to the stress coupling issues with the B-grid.
642    o each tested exp: add a "run" directory with a standard ".cvsignore" file ;
643      remove .cvsignore from input dir. (since testreport no longer run here).
644    o pkg/thsice:
645     - cleaning: move common block out of "THSICE_2DYN.h" (removed) to "THSICE_VARS.h"
646     - fix reshaping of sea-ice just after advection:
647       melt all the ice only if ice-volume is too small.
648     - re-visit lateral/thinning repartition of melting (modifs from May 04, 2007):
649       prevent lateral melting if sea-ice fraction is too close to iceMaskMin ;
650     and update experiment global_ocean.cs32x15.icedyn (+start from pickup files).
651    o external_forcing_surf : extend the use of salt_EvPrRn & temp_EvPrRn (fresh-water
652      tracer content) to linFS or no RealFreshWaterFlux ; default remains unchanged.
653    o define mass2rUnit & rUnit2mass as units conversion factor, used for surface
654      forcing. mass2rUnit: from mass per unit area [kg/m2] to r-coordinate unit
655      (z-coord: =1/rhoConst ; p-coord: =gravity) ; rUnit2mass is just the reverse;
656      and remove horiVertRatio (& recip_horiVertRatio). Affects truncation error
657      of exp. global_oce_in_p: 10 16 16 14 16 13 16 16 16 13 13 13 16 13 13 12 16
658      -> update output.txt
659    o pkg/cd_code: add brackets in multiple terms sum (S/R CD_CODE_SCHEME):
660     this affects truncation error: -> update output.txt of exp:
661      global_ocean.90x40x15 (fw&adm), lab_sea (fw&adm) & lab_sea.lsr,
662      ideal_2D_oce, isomip.htd, natl_box, tutorial_global_oce_latlon.
663    
664    checkpoint59f
665    o pkg/autodiff: zero_adj resets an ajoint variable to zero (in adjoint mode)
666    o pkg/ctrl: ctrl_bound  forces parameter corrections to stay in
667      a bounded range (in forward mode)
668    o pkg/ecco, ctrl, autodiff and mom_common:
669     internal parameter controls, completements of implementations
670    o add few EXCH S/R (UV_BGRID, UV_DGRID, SM) for B & D-Grid velocity & 2nd Moment Sxy.
671    o use UV_BGRID exch for dxV,dyU: for now, only with pkg/exch2 & forward ;
672      (not seem any difference in testing results).
673    o pkg/cd_code: use the right EXCH calls (for CS-grid); but problem remains
674       at face corners.
675    o pkg/generic_advdiff:
676     - in GAD.h, define as parameters (iMinAdvR,iMaxAdvR,jMinAdvR,jMaxAdvR)
677      loop range indices for computing vertical advection tendency
678      and do the calculation in the interior only (no overlap) ;
679      for now, only implemented for SOM advection (to save CPU time).
680     - add argument "withSigns" to S/R FILL_CS_CORNER_TR_RL (needed for SOM_xy moment)
681    o exch2 adjoint
682      First set of changes:
683      - add exch2 hand-written adjoint templates
684      - exch2 hand-written no longer use TAF-flag 'nownew_arg'
685        This will require cleanup in pkg/autodiff/*.F
686        (changed routines currently kept separate in verif. code/)
687      - Comment all relevant #ifndef ALLOW_AUTODIFF_TAMC
688        that used to hide exch2 or cubed-sphere specific code
689        (commented via 'cph-exch2')
690    o pkg/seaice
691      - Close southern and western boundaries for UICE/VICE when useOBCS=.TRUE.
692    o pkg/bulk_force: fix loading into Qsw of Short-Wave flux; and update
693       output of global_ocean.cs32x15.thsice .
694    
695    checkpoint59e
696    o exch2: new S/R that only use the cube-tracer (center-position) exchange:
697      for B-grid vector (not yet tested) and C-grid vector (<- only used
698      when option W2_USE_R1_ONLY in W2_OPTIONS.h is defined).
699    o starting implementation of Duffy et al. (GRL 1999) salt plume scheme
700      (#ifdef ALLOW_SALT_PLUME)
701    o gather_2d/scatter_2d: removed halo regions
702    o gmredi: add option (GM_taper_scheme='fm07') for Ferrari & McWilliams 2007
703      scheme and the corresponding test case (under front_relax dir). For now,
704      only available with Skew-flux form and not yet tested in realistic set-up.
705      adjoint: store directives updated, but gradient checks deteriorated,
706      so maybe GM/Redi adjoint is now broken.
707    o seaice adjoint
708      * add AREA, HEFF, HSNOW as control variable
709        (should not change lab_sea results)
710      * CTRL_OPTIONS.h needs new flag: CTRL_SET_OLD_MAXCVARS_40
711    o pkg/seaice:
712      * added computation of saltFlux in seaice_growth;
713        For time being, sea ice salinity is assumed constant
714        contribution of snow flooding to freshening of sea ice is neglected.
715        SEAICE_salinity is set in SEAICE_PARM01 of data.seaice and it
716        defaults to 0.0 in order to maintain backward compatibility.
717        Typical values for SEAICE_salinity are 4 to 10 g/kg.
718      * replaced dRf(1) with dRf(kSurface)*hFacC(kSurface) in seaice_growth.F
719      * added SEAICE_availHeatFrac, which specifies fraction of surface level
720        heat content used to melt or grow ice
721      * commented out cap of HICE: it helps keep ice thinner
722      * reintroduced cap of HEFF via MAX_HEFF and SEAICE_CAP_HEFF option
723      * applied OBCS T/S mask to HEFFM sea ice mask
724    
725    checkpoint59d
726    o standard name: {PKG}_DIAGNOSTICS_STATE to fill diagnostics array
727     for {PKG} state variables, and called from DO_STATEVARS_DIAGS.
728     (keep {PKG}_DIAGNOSTICS_FILL for non-state variables diagnostics)
729    o pkg/gmredi (gmredi_readparms.F): add some missing "_d 0"
730     and change default value of parameter "GM_Small_Number";
731     update output of exp: lab_sea (x2), cfc_example, global_ocean.90x40x15,
732       global_ocean.cs32x15 (x4), global_ocean_ebm, global_with_exf,  
733       tutorial_global_oce_biogeo, tutorial_global_oce_latlon
734    o pkg/ecco: cost function when applying pkg/smooth to controls
735    o pkg/ctrl: add forcingPrecond run time parameter
736    o pkg/seaice:
737     - replace ZMIN=4.e8 with ZMIN=0. in dynsolver.F as in C-grid code
738     - fix bug in metric terms of u-equation in LSR solver (implicit part),
739       changes verification/lab_sea
740     - rearrange implicit part of u-equation in LSR solver to make it easier to
741       read, understand, and debug. This causes changes at the truncation level.
742     - fix (serious) bug in the boundary conditions (sign error in the implicit
743       part) of the LSR solver. Changes all LSR results.
744     - fixed problem with HSNOW initialization to avoid thick snow when AREA
745       is initilized with small values - does not change lab_sea results.
746     - added HsnowFile initialization capability
747    o pkg/smooth: addition to model/src and pkg/ctrl so allow
748     initialization of pkg/smooth and application to control vector
749    o pkg/seaice: fix another bug in the LSR no-slip boundary conditons
750    o dependencies: pkg/profiles requires pkg/cal
751    o pkg/profiles:
752     - added option ALLOW_PROFILES_GENERICGRID
753         -> pkg/profiles can thus be used with any grid (e.g. cs32x15) assuming
754         that interpolation information (grid points and coefficients) is provided
755         within the netcdf input files.
756         -> sample matlab scripts can be found in MITgcm_contrib/gael
757         that allow you to prepare netcdf input files.
758     - also modified: cleaner include statements, cleaner error print statements,
759       cleaner stops when error, and more tests of the netcdf input files consistency.
760    o additional test (in global_ocean.cs32x15) using seaice+thsice pkgs.
761    o pkg/seaice:
762     - move seaice-diagnostics from seaice_do_diags to do_statevars_diags; this
763       requires a new routine: seaice_diagnostics_fill.F
764     - make sure that seaice does not move if not forced (pressure replacement
765       method, Hibler and Ip, 1995), changes results
766     - and new damping criterion for EVP solver according to Hunke, JCP, 2001
767     - SEAICE_evpDampC = > 0. turns it on (615. is the recommended value).
768       It is turned off by default (=-1.), because it changes the results.
769     - make it possible to read AREA from a file, too.
770    
771    checkpoint59c
772    o add S/R and diagnostics for oceanic mixed-layer depth
773    o move GMRedi call after all vertical mixing schemes (including KPP)
774    o pkg/thsice:
775     - ensure iceMask > iceMaskMin : this problem appeared after May-04 modifs
776      (melt only laterally if thin ice): update output of global_ocean.cs32x15.thsice
777    o pkg/obcs:
778     - bug fix for balance code
779    o pkg/seaice:
780      - allow values of SEAICE_elasticParm > 1
781      - add new parameter SEAICE_evpTauRelax as an alternative
782        to SEAICE_elasticParm
783      - make lsr boundary conditions free slip (by default), changes result
784      - add code for no slip boundary conditions for lsr
785      - set minimum of zeta to zero (and not 4e8) (changes results)
786      - add a cap on AREA after advecting AREA if seaice_growth is not called
787    o change calculation of Visbeck K:
788      - no longer depend on tapering scheme; instead, compute slope (limited
789        by GM_maxSlope). this is equivalent to what was comuted before with
790        clipping or linear tappering.
791      - fix vertical averaging (wrong by 1/2 level)
792      - leave the old version (but will not be maintained) within
793        #ifdef OLD_VISBECK_CALC / #endif
794      - update output of exp. ideal_2D_oce
795    o change error catch in calc_r_star to improve vectorization
796    o exf runoff and seaice: remove ALLOW_SEAICE from exf pkg files and
797      add #define ALLOW_RUNOFF in SEAICE_OPTIONS.h (when not using exf).
798    o adjoint:
799      Re-organized adjoint checkpointing according to Matt Mazloff
800      (but with modifs/completions/cleanups)
801      Storing is now bundled into large arrays to optimized I/O
802      (and second step in cleanup of the_main_loop)
803    
804    checkpoint59b
805    o coupler (pkg/atm_ocn_coupler, pkg/ocn_compon_interf, pkg/atm2d):
806      - export/import (between ocean & coupler) fields needed for ocean DIC.
807    o pkg/seaice:
808      - get rid of three more exchanges seaice_calc_viscosities (required
809        different loop boundaries in seaice_lsr and seaice_ocean_stress)
810      - bug fix in seaice_ocean_stress (update of lab_sea required)
811      - reduce loop boundaries to necessary minimum also in seaice_evp
812      - go back to the old way of computing deltaC/Z as the adjoint likes that
813        better
814    o Refresh of tutorial_global_oce_latlon (includes changing salinity-like
815      passive tracer to an Age Tracer) + update output.txt
816    o pkg/exf:
817      - implement A-grid / C-grid selection for wind-stress input files.
818      - clean-up exf_wind.F (remove us, use wspeed instead ; add wStress)
819      for now, in exf_bulk_largeyeager04.F only :
820      - change implementation for case where windspeed + 2. components wind-stress
821        are read-in. AND use rhoConstFresh to convert evap.
822    o pkg/seaice:
823      - use correct EXCH_UV for wind-forcing (on A-grid).
824      - change SEAICE_OPTIONS.h to limit the number of option combinations (regarding
825        SEAICE_EXTERNAL_FORCING & SEAICE_EXTERNAL_FLUXES); add corresponding stops.
826    o pkg/exf:
827      - default EXF options are now set in EXF_OPTIONS.h (ifndef ALLOW_AUTODIFF_TAMC)
828      EXF_INTERPOLATION:
829      - merge global_with_exf/code version of exf_interp_read.F
830        to the main code ;
831      - Add new option: EXF_INTERP_USE_DYNALLOC to use Dynamical Allocation when
832        reading the file ; Important: This options needs to be defined to recover
833        previous code.
834        otherwise, use fixed size array to read in (size=exf_interp_bufferSize).
835      - no longer loose real*8 precision along the way when using exf_iprec=64.
836    o pkg/seaice: rearrangement of common blocks (really needs more cleaning up)
837      - change discretisation of evp-solver in order to avoid another exchange
838        (changes lab_sea) and clean up a little
839      - replace SQRT(MAX(deltaC,SEAICE_EPS)) by MAX(SQRT(deltaC),SEAICE_EPS)
840        help the adjoint (this also changes the results slightly)
841      - add a few "_d 0" where they had been missing in seaice_evp.F
842      - cleaning up: remove unused seaice_calc_rhs.F
843    o pkg/exf: some cleaning-up:
844      - change various "constants" into runtime parameters
845      - cleaned-up Large&Yeager04 routine which should eventually
846        replace exf_bulkformulae.F (changed names of S/R and CPP)
847        and merged various ALLOW_ATM_WIND options
848     only used with thsice pkg (in thsice_get_exf.F):
849      - implement fixed turbulent transfert Coeff over ice (as in Large&Yeager04)
850        which are used when useStabilityFct_overIce=TRUE (= the default)
851      - change default values of ice & snow emissivity and scale downward LW
852        by ice & snow emissivity.
853    o pkg/thsice:
854     fix few little problems, in thsice_calc_thickn.F:
855      - growth vertically (and not laterally) if iceFrac == iceMaskMax
856      - melt only laterally if hIce < hThinIce (as the comments say)
857      and in thsice_extend.F:
858      - allow to form ice even when iceFrac == iceMaskMax (by increasing thickness)
859      - start to form ice as soon as the minimum ice-volume is reachable.
860     update output of test-exp: aim.5l_cs(thSI), global_ocean.cs32x15(thsice),
861      and cpl_aim+ocn
862    o pkg/kpp
863     - move computation of surface related input fields to KPP into a new
864       subroutine kpp_forcing_surf.F
865     - remove wrong (within bi,bj loops) EXCH calls.
866     - little cleaning (add argument myThid in last position, cvs header ...)
867     - for now, fix conservation problem by exchanging KPPviscAz (may not
868       be the best fix)
869    o pkg/seaice
870     - check for inconsistent evp parameter/cpp-flag combination
871     - remove leftover errIO flat for obsolete name list error handling
872    o OpenAD
873     - changed verification/OpenAD to full baroclinic setup (including GM/Redi)
874    
875    checkpoint59a
876    o pkg/seaice: some parameter clarifications and a little bit of clean up
877    o pkg/thsice: rename run-time parameters:
878       himin       -> hIceMin
879       himin0      -> hThinIce
880       hihig       -> hThickIce
881       i0          -> i0swFrac
882       transCoef   -> bMeltCoef
883       frac_energy -> fracMelting
884      add new parameters: hNewIceMax, fracFreezing, dhSnowLin
885       with default values (for now) that do not change the results.
886      remove old version of thsice vars advection in pkg/seaice.
887    o in FFIELDS.h:
888      - replace #ifndef ALLOW_EXF  by #ifndef EXCLUDE_FFIELDS_LOAD
889      - make pLoad & sIceLoad always available (but still only used if
890         ATMOSPHERIC_LOADING is #define).
891    o pkg/kpp: replaced _KPP_RL with _RL
892    o bug fixes for vertical diffusivity computations when both KPP and
893        3D diffusivity arrays are used; pkg/kpp/kpp_calc_diff_s & _t.F
894        are no longer updating the vertical diffusivity array
895        (passed as argument) but are (re-) setting those arrays.
896    o pkg/seaice: fix bug in evp solver, while doing that
897      - change (improve?) discretization of stress computations for both
898        cgrid-lsr and evp solver
899      - add a new routine to compute strain rates
900      - the above changes lab_sea results
901      - add no slip conditions for evp solver (off by default), lsr-version
902        may follow
903      - fix exchange for shear at Z-points (does not change lab_sea)
904      - retire SEAICEuseEVP, instead turn on EVP by setting SEAICE_deltaTevp
905        (to force the user to pick a time step since there is not "safe" way
906        of choosing it)
907      - add principal stress diagnostics
908      - rearrange fields for evp a little to avoid having to call a: too many
909        exchanges and b: exchanges for stress trensor components which we do
910        not have.
911      - modify Hibler+Bryan (1987) stress coupling so that it reuses information
912        of evp, complete rewrite for lsr case (latter is does not yet work
913        in all cases)
914    o pkg/kpp: add code to have mixing in shelf ice caverns
915      - add myThid to all kpp routines (long overdue)
916    
917    checkpoint59
918    o pkg/exf:
919      - fix wind-stress location: defined on A-grid (if ALLOW_ATM_WIND &
920        ALLOW_BULKFORMULAE or USE_EXF_INTERPOLATION), otherwise, defined on C-grid
921      - move exf header files from lower_case.h to UPPER_CASE.h ;
922        add missing cvs Header & Name
923      - add adjoint routines and flow dirs for newly used exch_uv_agrid routines
924      - add namelist param. selectStressGridPosition, exf_monFreq
925      - retire many _CLIM routines, and remove data.exf_clim
926        + params moved to data.exf
927        + climsst, climsss now handled by exf_set_gen, i.e.
928          climss?period=0 refers to constant field,
929          climss?period=-12 to monthly forcing
930      - split up namelists in data.exf
931    o pkg/seaice:
932      - remove seaice_exch and seaice_exch_uv
933      - remove superfluous exchange of theta
934      - add myThid to seaice_budget_ocean/ice
935      - add new interface for atmospheric wind forcing (C-grid only)
936        + new routine
937        + two new field (taux, tauy for stress over ice)
938        + removed one global field (DAIRN) for C-grid case only
939    o pkg/thsise
940      - 2nd set of modifs for thsice adjoint in conjunction with exf
941    o enable runtime flag useEXF (useCAL is set to .T. if useEXF=.T.)
942    
943    checkpoint58y_post
944    o Added capability for latitudinal dependence of Bryan and Lewis, 1979
945      vertical diffusivity, similar to that in MOM4; turned on using
946      #define ALLOW_BL79_LAT_VARY in CPP_OPTIONS.h and specified using
947      diffKrBL79*, diffKrBLEQ*, and BL79LatVary in runtime data file.
948    o Added capability for 3D specification of background vertical diffusion
949      coefficient.  This is done by (i) #define ALLOW_3D_DIFFKR
950      in CPP_OPTIONS.h and (ii) specifying file diffKrFile in runtime
951      "data" file that contains the 3D vertical diffusivity coefficients.
952    o ice dynamics (pkg/seaice) with thsice thermodynamics:
953      - add code within pkg thsice to advect & diffuse sea-ice fields
954      similar to (and will replace) what has been added in  seaice_advdiff.F,
955      but: - conserving Mass, Heat & Salt.
956           - better when using non-linear advection scheme (not yet fully tested)
957           - can also be used in atmospheric set-up (for now, only the diffusion).
958    
959    checkpoint58x_post
960    o IO option for global-file compact format:
961      - add options when generating topology (utils/exch2/matlab-topology-generator)
962      - add I/O capability (pkg/mdsio).
963      - adapt utils/matlab/rdmds.m to read this format.
964      for now long-line format not yet supported by pkg/mdsio (& exch2).
965    o shelfice: add a few diagnostics
966    
967    checkpoint58w_post
968    o p-coord. non-hydrostatic using reference profile for w <-> omega conversion:
969      rVel2wUnit & wUnit2rVel are computed from reference profile Tref,Sref
970      (and replace horiVertRatio in NH code).
971      Update output of exp.: tutorial_global_oce_in_p (useNHMTerms !)
972                         and tutorial_plume_on_slope (sensitive to truncation)
973    o seaice: if ALLOW_ATM_WIND is undefined use wind stress
974      directly to drive seaice model (C-grid only)
975    o exf: when input wind-stress (#undef ALLOW_ATM_WIND):
976     - reintroduce computation of wind from stress,
977     - compute tau (in exf_bulkformulae.F) from windstress averaged to
978       mass points to avoid tau = 0
979     - fix serious bug: (1/3) in Fortran is not the same as (1./3.)
980    o rdmnc.m: make it work with "global" files created with gluemnc
981    o rdmnc.m : some improvements in dealing with singleton dimension
982      (tested on all testreport mnc output files).
983    o genmake2: disable pkg/profiles if netcdf test fails.
984    o cpl_aim+ocn exp.: use consistent rhoConstFresh in Atm & Ocn; update output.
985    o move call to cal_readparms up to make calendar parameters/variable available
986      to all packages
987    
988    checkpoint58v_post
989    o change EOS (from POLY3 to JMD95P) in global_ocean.90x45x15 to get
990      useDynP_inEos_Zc tested.
991    o pkg/exf: changes to properly interpolate/mask/scale initial fields
992    o utils/matlab/cs_grid/read_cs: routines to speed up reading of CS510 fields
993      and portions thereof.  See read_cs.txt for description and examples.
994    o utils/matlab/cs_grid/bk_line: to compute transport through passages,
995      add a script (grt_circ_bkl.m) to generate broken-line between 2 points,
996      following the great-circle arc between those 2 points.
997    o trap un-initialized variable with pathscale compiler on weddell.mit.edu
998      (thanks to Constantinos): fix few problems and get (almost) all exp to pass.
999    o 2nd-Order Moment Advection Scheme (Prather, 1986): first check-in
1000     - enable by setting #define GAD_ALLOW_SOM_ADVECT (in GAD_OPTIONS.h)
1001     - used without limiter (AdvScheme=80) or with Prather limiter (AdvScheme=81)
1002     - still needs work (not working with some options ; efficiency to improve)
1003       and serious testing.
1004     - use this scheme for temperature & salinity in 2 advection test exp.:
1005       advect_xy & advect_xz, respectively.
1006    
1007    checkpoint58u_post
1008    o new test-exp: fizhi-cs-32x32x40 (40 levels) to replace the 10 levels.
1009    o move call to INI_FORCING from PACKAGES_INIT_VARIABLES to INITIALISE_VARIA.
1010    o testreport: add option "-skipdir" to skip some test.
1011    o exf: when input wind-stress (#undef ALLOW_ATM_WIND), by-pass turbulent
1012      momentum calculation.
1013    o gad_advection: fix vertAdvecScheme (if different from advectionScheme)
1014    o some cleaning: usePickupBeforeC35 no longer supported ; remove this option.
1015      remove checkpoint.F and the_correction_step.F (no longer used);
1016      do the k loop inside CYCLE_TRACER (supposed to be more efficient).
1017    o add option (linFSConserveTr) to correct for tracer source/sink due to
1018      Linear Free surface
1019    o pkg/seaice: fix a bug in the flooding algorithm: turn off the snow machine
1020    o pkg/thsice: fix reading mnc-pickups
1021    
1022    checkpoint58t_post
1023    o pkg/diagnostics: fix multi-threaded output (when singleCpuIO=F)
1024    o pkg/mdsio:
1025     - clean-up mdsio_readfield.F & mdsio_writefield_new.F and
1026       move to new files: mdsio_read_field.F (S/R MDS_READ_FIELD) &
1027       mdsio_write_field.F (S/R MDS_WRITE_FIELD);
1028     - fix multi-threaded singleCpuIO option in MDS_WRITE_FIELD
1029     - collect old S/R  in one file: mdsio_rw_field.F (now just a call to
1030       either MDS_READ_FIELD or MDS_WRITE_FIELD )
1031     - new S/R (to replace MDSWRITEMETA), which allows to write more
1032       informations (variable names, time ...) to meta files.
1033     - modify rdmds.m to give back the meta file content.
1034    o pkg/diagnostics: change vertical interpolation to be safer, and more
1035       flexible (define p-levels to interpolate to in data.diagnostics);
1036      add argument to S/R DIAGNOSTICS_GET_POINTERS to catch the right
1037       diagnostic pointer.
1038    o pkg/seaice: more cleaning up of seaice_growth, added many comments
1039    o pkg/exf: put runoff0 and runoff1 into the appropriate common block
1040    o fix multi-category seaice:
1041     - change cpp flag SEAICE_MULTILEVEL to more meaningful name:
1042       SEAICE_MULTICATEGORY
1043     - fix short wave heat flux
1044    o pkg/seaice: change default (SEAICE_OPTIONS.h): use C-grid dynamics
1045       and allow to use EVP solver. Change forward lab_sea: test both EVP
1046       solver and LSR solver, and use C-grid dynamics (like lab_sea adjoint)
1047    o Initial check-in of lab_sea adjoint
1048      (very similar to natl_box_adjoint/code_seaice)
1049      * used C-grid and EVP solver
1050      * used KPP, GM/Redi
1051      * uses inAdExact=.TRUE.
1052      * gradient checks fail for both ADM and TLM
1053        due to sensitive snow melt code in seaice_grwoth (look for "JZ")
1054        f.d. gradients actually seem more problematic than ADM, TLM gradients;
1055        issue is related to forward mismatch between g77 an ifort
1056    o pkg/seaice: overhaul of thermodynamics
1057     - growth.F and groatb.F are replaced by new routine seaice_growth.F
1058     - budget.F is replaced by two new routines seaice_budget_ocean/ice.F
1059     - move a few global fields out of SEAICE.h into seaice_growth.F and
1060       make them 2D (FICE/QNETO/ ...)
1061     - remove FO (it is the same as QNETO)
1062     - introduce a few local fields to avoid modifying external fields such
1063       as atemp, etc.
1064    
1065    checkpoint58s_post
1066    o pkg/exf: moved exf_init_runoff.F to exf_init.F and exf_set_gen.F
1067      changed exf_set_gen.F so that
1068        genperiod=0 means input file is one time-constant field and
1069        genperiod=-12 means input file contains 12 monthly means
1070    o CG2D: use pre-computed solver main-diagonal (stored in common block);
1071      this affects truncation error ; generate new output file for exp. which
1072      fails: exp4(12d), fizhi-cs-aqualev20(12d), front_relax(10d),
1073        global_ocean.90x40x15(10d), global_ocean.cs32x15(10d).thsice(11d).viscA4(10d),
1074        ideal_2D_oce(10d), internal_wave(09d), isomip.htd(11d), matrix_example(07d),
1075        MLAdjust(4x11d,12d), natl_box(11d), rotating_tank(12d),
1076        tutorial_global_oce_in_p(10d), tutorial_plume_on_slope(11d),
1077        vermix(12d).ggl90(12d).my82(11d).opps(12d).pp81(11d)
1078    o start implementation of deep-atmosphere and anelastic formulation
1079    o verification: remove 2nd copy of input files and use script "prepare_run"
1080      to make a symbolic link to the 1rst copy (reduce downloaded size by ~81.M)
1081    o mom_common/vecinv/fluxform: fix a few initialisation isssues
1082    o profiles: fix for multithreaded case
1083    
1084    o diagnostics: rename few diags:
1085      s/'PRESSURE'/'RCENTER '/g
1086      s/'TICE    '/'oceFreez'/g
1087      s/'TAUX    '/'oceTAUX '/g
1088      s/'TAUY    '/'oceTAUY '/g
1089      s/'SWFLUX  '/'oceQsw  '/g
1090      s/DIFx/DFxE/g
1091      s/DIFy/DFyE/g
1092      and add few ocean-forcing diagnostics:
1093      atmPload, sIceLoad, oceQnet, oceFWflx, oceSflux, surForcT & surForcS
1094    o modifications to pkg/seaice/growth.F and budget.F, which change results of
1095      lab_sea experiment: HSNOW was sometimes treated as effective and sometimes
1096      as actual snow thickness.  It now refers everywhere to effective snow
1097      thickness, meaning that for non-zero AREA, actual thickness is HEFF/AREA.
1098    
1099    checkpoint58r_post
1100    o modifications to pkg/seaice/growth.F, which change results of
1101      lab_sea experiment: fixes pertain to melting snow over open water, to
1102      masking EVAP under sea ice, and to using the correct AREA variable for
1103      computations of EVAP, PRECIP, HSNOW, and GHEFF
1104    o add ability to read bathy, salt, and theta using MNC (off by def)
1105    o add flooding algorithm and advection of HSNOW for pkg/seaice;
1106      both are turned off by default and do no change any results
1107    o seaice advection with pkg/thsice: a step toward the use of non-linear
1108      advection scheme, but #ifdef or commented out for now (requires more EXCH).
1109    o use standard version of PTRACERS_INI_VARIA in tutorial_tracer_adjsens
1110      (identical results) and the standard version of EXTERNAL_FIELDS_LOAD
1111      in natl_box (affects results @ truncation level: update output.txt)
1112    o multi-threading and IO:
1113      - replace some call to MDSIO S/R by the corresponding READ/WRITE_FLD S/R.
1114      - remove most of BEGIN_MASTER/ END_MASTER around READ/WRITE_FLD S/R calls
1115        (needed to work with SingleCpuIO): tested in all verif. exp.
1116    o GAD: use simpler DST3 formulation as default (old version left within #ifdef)
1117      affects the results (but none of the verification test uses this scheme).
1118    o Adding some pkg/diagnostics capability to pkg/seaice
1119      (will certainly be subject to changes)
1120    o ctrl: adding new control variables:
1121      lwflux, lwdown, evap, snowprecip, apressure, runoff
1122    
1123    checkpoint58q_post
1124    o added CPP_EEOPTIONS.h flag DISABLE_MPI_READY_TO_RECEIVE.  Speeds up
1125      1/6-deg Southern Ocean configuration by 8% on IBM Datastar and
1126      high_res_cube configuration by 4% on Columbia.
1127    o clean-up multi-threaded problems (reported by debugger tcheck on ACES);
1128      add (in global_with_exf/code) a version of EXF_INTERP_READ without
1129      dynamical allocation (seems to work in multi-threaded).
1130    o new function "MASTER_CPU_IO" (=T if master thread & master CPU, if using
1131      single CPU io) so that TAF does not have to see EESUPPORT.h
1132    o pkg/seaice: implement sea-ice loading (when using RealFreshWaterFlux)
1133    
1134    checkpoint58p_post
1135    o obcs: stop if obcs is used with useCDscheme = .true.
1136    o shelfice:
1137     - fix a sign error so that no slip at shelfice interface works
1138     - remove stop for combination non-hydrostatic code and shelfice. That does
1139       not mean, that the results are correct, but at least they are numerically
1140       stable
1141    o diagnoctics: modify UVELPHI and VVELPHI to include hfac (i.e. mass-weighted)
1142    o added adjoint exch routined for all exch*3d* routines
1143      and updated flow directives
1144    
1145    checkpoint58o_post
1146    o replace calls to EXCH_Z & EXCH_UV_AGRID: use the new _3D_ version ;
1147      remove old subroutines (_XY_ & _XYZ_); update the adjoint version.
1148    o change controling S/R for writing pickup file (new S/R do_write_pickup)
1149      and clean-up reading/writing of pickup files.
1150    o fix local version of read/write pickup (NH part) in rotating_tank/code
1151    o simplify EXCH interface:
1152     - change _XYZ_ interface to _3D_ subroutine (with 3rd dim in argument list)
1153     - not often used EXCH S/R (exch_z, exch_uv_agrid): keep only the _3D_ version
1154    o added the regrid package
1155    o shelfice:
1156     - add a simple boundary layer scheme to reduce noise
1157     - fix the indexing in shelfice_u/v_drag so that there will be actually drag
1158    
1159    checkpoint58n_post
1160    o fix globalArea multi-threaded calculation: need to apply GLOBAL_SUM to
1161       local variable (not in common block).
1162    o lot of small changes for multi-threaded. Most tests (using OMP & ifort) pass.
1163      - still problems with pkgs: mnc, exp2, dic, cal, exf (and probably more);
1164      - still BEGIN_MASTER/END_MASTER to remove around READ/WRITE_FLD S/R calls
1165        to work with SingleCpuIO.
1166    o add "_d 0" to real constant of pkg/cfc subroutines ;
1167       update exp. cfc_exemple & tutorial_cfc_offline output files.
1168    o multi-threading and IO:
1169      - all threads call READ_FLD S/R (needed if using SingleCpuIO):
1170        (no BEGIN_MASTER/ END_MASTER around the call, but inside MDSIO S/R.
1171      - barrier before and after reading.
1172      - stop if other than master is calling MDS_WRITELOCAL (if #undef IO_THREAD_SAFE)
1173      - avoid using MDS_WRITELOCAL for LAND pkg output.
1174      - new S/R AIM_WRITE_PHYS (replaces AIM_WRITE_LOCAL) to write AIM physics
1175        common-block variables ; Allows multi-threading with master-thread IO.
1176    o change default MAX_NO_THREADS from 32 to 4 ;
1177      and stop cleanly when MAX_NO_THREADS is too small.
1178    o add S/R BAR_CHECK to check multi-threaded barrier synchronization
1179    
1180    checkpoint58m_post
1181    o add a Non-Hydroatatic test (with 3-D Coriolis, NHMTerms, biharmonic Visc.
1182       and side-drag) on CS-grid : global_ocean.cs32x15.viscA4
1183    o make "tutorial_global_oce_latlon" from standard "global_ocean.90x40x15" exp.
1184       keep global_ocean.90x40x15 (for AD testing) with former secondary test
1185       (".qshyd") as the main test (mv output.qshyd.txt to output.txt)
1186    o CVS modules: update MITgcm_verif_basic; remove MITgcm_verif_ocean & _verif_atmos;
1187        add MITgcm_tutorials (= code + all the tutorials)
1188    o ecco, option to compute cost for total ssh (mean+anom)
1189    o consistent with addition of ptracer and ssh in pkg/profiles
1190    o profiles: adding ptracer and ssh
1191    o testreport: change multi-test output-file name
1192      (from output.txt.{name} to output.{name}.txt)
1193    o profiles: now ok for mutli-tiles case
1194    o seaice: add 4 parameters for different advection schemes for area,
1195      (effective) seaice thickness, enthalphy, and snow height. Their default
1196      is the standard parameter SEAICEadvScheme
1197    o calc_gw:
1198     - add cosFacU in zonal viscous flux (harmonic.visc.).
1199     - put back side-drag (call new S/R MOM_W_SIDEDRAG) and output.txt.
1200       of tutorial_plume_on_slope.
1201    o obcs_calc.F : fix index Pb in OBSeta & OBNeta (Thanks to Gianmaria).
1202    o calc_gw: true flux-form, account for horizontal grid spacing.
1203      update rotating_tank results, but not plume_on_slope (affected at
1204      truncation level, 11 digits).
1205    
1206    checkpoint58l_post
1207    o calc_gw:
1208     - take bi,bj loops outside calc_gw to fix Pb with local array KappaRU,V
1209     - remove side-drag for now (need to fix it); update plume_on_slope results.
1210     - fix for partial-cell & non-uniform dz; update plume_on_slope results.
1211    o commit code to make SST/SSS weights spatially variable
1212      (based on either variable in-situ or variable initial T/S weights)
1213    o pkg/ecco:
1214      * commit code to relax deviations of xx_theta, xx_salt to 5*sigma,
1215        now based on horizontally varying weights wthetaLev, wsaltLev
1216      * cost_averagesflags now returns year indices in addition to day, month
1217      * sflux balance is performed on annual basis
1218        (sflxumm, sfluxmm2, bal_sfluxmm)
1219      * for SSH anomaly, separate more cleanly contrib from T/P, ERS, GFO,
1220        including separate counting and multipliers
1221    o pkg/rbcs
1222      * add all necessary infrastructure for pkg/rbcs levN adjoint checkpointing
1223    
1224    checkpoint58k_post
1225    o testreport:
1226     - always build in dir. "build" (if not there, mkdir build instead of building
1227       & running in input)
1228     - run in dir run (if it exists), in build otherwise.
1229     - call prepare_run (if input/prepare_run exists)
1230     - run multi-threaded test (with new option: "-mth") if file input/eedata.mth exists.
1231    o pkg/exf modifications to interpolation and rotation routines for more
1232       reasonable treatment of North Pole singularity: for tracers North Pole
1233       value is set to northernmost zonal-mean value, for zonal velocity it is
1234       set to zero, and for meridional velocity it is set to northernmost value.
1235    o pkg/exf/exf_check_range.F
1236     - add tile index to diagnostics and move stop statement to the very
1237       end of the routine.
1238    o pkg/diagnostics: (diagnostics_main_init.F)
1239      define title of isomorphic variables according to the current config.
1240    o pkg/thsice with pkg/seaice dynamics:
1241    - fix domain of computation (interior only, required for exf) and do exchanges
1242    - seaice-dynamics forcing: add atmospheric and seaice loading to SSH gradient
1243    o towards a standard way of dealing with multi-threading in MONITOR
1244      and ${PKG}_MONITOR (all except ptracers_monitor) subroutines.
1245    o Pass variable viscosities (vertical and horizontal, e.g., KPP or Leith)
1246       to W momentum equation in nonhydrostatic and quasihydrostatic runs.  
1247    o make exf_monitor & seaice_monitor independant of the main (dynamics) monitor.
1248    o pkg/seaice: fix SEAICEuseEVPpickup parameter (put it in a commom block)
1249    o generic_advdiff: DST advection S/R : use local copy of velocity to compute CFL
1250       (problems ? with gradient check in bottom_ctrl_5x5 adjoint test)
1251    o tracer advection:
1252     - clean-up and simplify calc_common_factors.F
1253     - make a local copy of velocity and pass it (as u,v,r_Trans) to DST tracer
1254       advection subroutine (but still not used within DST advection S/R)
1255    o rename pkg aim_ocn_coupler to atm_ocn_coupler (later on, will be used without aim)
1256    
1257    checkpoint58j_post
1258    o new driver S/R: LOAD_FIELDS_DRIVER to load external forcing fields
1259      from file (collects calls previously in FORWARD_STEP)
1260    o move call to SEAICE_MODEL from FORWARD_STEP to DO_OCEANIC_PHYS
1261    o adjoint store dir. adjusted accordingly
1262    o genmake2
1263      replace target "ad_taf" by $(EXE_AD) ; add $(EXE_AD) to the make CLEAN list.
1264    
1265    checkpoint58i_post
1266    o pkg/seaice: add parameter that allows to scale/turn off effect of seaice
1267      on wind stress (SEAICEstressFactor defaults to 1.)
1268    o Total number of Timers is finite (<=40): comment out 2 non-essential one
1269      in the_main_loop.F to avoid Pb (e.g., when running fizhi test)
1270    o vector_invariant: fix highOrderVorticity(=4.th.Order) advection
1271      on CS-grid: no longer loosing mass.
1272    o exf & curvilinear-grid: no longer modify longitude xC & xG.
1273    o pkg/ggl90: fix sloppy output and fix a bug
1274    o pkg/seaice: added SEAICEuseEVPpickup parameter
1275      - Set to false in order to start EVP solver with
1276        non-EVP pickup files when using SEAICEuseEVP
1277      - fix sign error in diffusion in seaice_calc_rhs
1278    
1279    checkpoint58h_post
1280    * Modifications for bottom topography control
1281      o replace hFacC by _hFacC at various places
1282      o replace ALLOW_HFACC_CONTROL by ALLOW_DEPTH_CONTROL
1283      o add non-self-adjoint cg2d_nsa
1284      o update autodiff support routines
1285      o re-initialise hfac after ctrl_depth_ini
1286      o works for 5x5 box, doesnt work for global_ocean.90x40x15
1287    * Adding verification for 5x5 box (4-layer) bottom topography control
1288    
1289    checkpoint58g_post
1290    o pkg/diagnostics: implement "periodic averaging diagnostics" (e.g.,
1291       used for mean seasonal cycle, mean diurnal cycle); add an example
1292       in verification/global_ocean.cs32x15/input.thsice/data.diagnostics
1293    o pkg/ggl90:
1294      - add parameter (minimum surface kinetic energy)
1295      - fix bug (avoiding division by zero)
1296    o couple pkg/thsice to pkg/seaice:
1297      - modify advection in seaice to accomodate new scalar fields to be advected
1298      - only muliDimAdection scheme work with seaice/thsice
1299      - mapping of thsice-variables to seaice-variables, back and forth
1300      - does not break the verification experiments, but does not give the
1301        desired results either
1302    o pkg/seaice
1303      - make (default) second order advection a bit less confusing?
1304    
1305    checkpoint58f_post
1306    o couple pkg/thsice and pkg/exf (as a preparation for coupling pkg/thsice
1307      to pkg/seaice):
1308      - new routines thsice_map_exf and thsice_get_exf provide the interface
1309      - add an additional formal parameter to thsice_solve4temp
1310    o pkg/exf:
1311      - add new fields wspeed, snowprecip (to be able to couple to thsice)
1312      - correct Stefan-Boltzmann constant
1313      - new parameter for longwave surface emittance
1314      - separate some stuff from exf_bulkformulae into new routines  
1315        exf_radiation, exf_wind
1316      - add new parameters and constants: longwave emissivity for ocean, ice
1317        and snow, evaporation parameters over ice
1318      - decouple wind/stress computation from ALLOW_BULKFORMULA: always compute
1319        either wind from stress or stress from wind
1320    o pkg/thSIce:
1321    - split thsice_step_fwd.F in 2 S/R: thsice_step_temp.F & thsice_step_fwd.F
1322    - put i,j loops inside S/R: THSICE_ALBEDO, THSICE_SOLVE4TEMP, THSICE_EXTEND
1323       and THSICE_CALC_THICKN
1324    - for now, call to THSICE_GET_BULKF remains inside i,j loops.
1325    - add CPP option: ALLOW_DBUG_THSICE and header file THSICE_DEBUG.h
1326      to make debugging easier.
1327    - affects results (@ truncation level) of global_ocean.cs32x15.thsice: update output
1328    o pkg/bulk_force:
1329      - clean-up comments and parameters ;
1330      - add new Bulk-Formulae from Large and Yeager, 2004, NCAR/TN-460+STR ;
1331    o fix bug in aim+thsice albedo: snow & ice thickness arguments were switched;
1332      generate new output for test-experiment: aim.5l_cs.thSI
1333    o results_ad : rename "output.txt_adm" to "output_adm.txt" and change
1334      testreport accordingly
1335    
1336    checkpoint58e_post
1337    o SEAICE_CGRID adjoint done
1338    o R_STAR adjoint implemented.
1339      * Seems to just work (based on global_ocean.90x40x15/code_ad_nlfs/ )
1340      * need to sort out init. of h0facc, etc.
1341    o Make pkg/profile fully independent of ecco,cost, etc. stuff
1342      to be able to use it in pure forward.
1343    
1344    checkpoint58d_post
1345    o upgrade simple test-experiment to tutorial example:
1346     step.1: duplicate the experiment and (step.2) will remove the old copy.
1347      tutorial_barotropic_gyre      <- copy of exp0     (R1:barotropic_gyre_in_a_box)
1348      tutorial_baroclinic_gyre      <- copy of exp1     (R1:baroclinic_gyre_on_a_sphere)
1349      tutorial_global_oce_latlon    <- empty for now    (R1:global_ocean_circulation)
1350      tutorial_global_oce_biogeo    <- copy of dic_example
1351      tutorial_deep_convection      <- almost like exp5 (R1:nonhydrostatic_deep_convection)
1352      tutorial_plume_on_slope       <- copy of plume_on_slope
1353      tutorial_tracer_adjsens       <- copy of carbon   (R1:tracer_adjoint_sensitivity)
1354      tutorial_global_oce_optim     <- empty for now (David ?)
1355      tutorial_global_oce_in_p      <- copy of global_ocean_pressure
1356     some tutorials (R1) were already checked-in under tutorial_examples in release1_branch
1357    o correct a sign problem in cost_scat.F
1358    o obcs and ptracers: fix boundary conditions for advections schemes
1359      with larger stencil
1360    o thsice adjoint: start
1361    o mom_vecinv: add ISOTROPIC_COS_SCALING flags to mom_vi_hdissip for
1362      completeness
1363    o mom_fluxform: fixing the mutual use of ISOTROPIC_COS_SCALING
1364      and COSINEMETH_III, add comments in default CPP_OPTIONS.h
1365    o ptracers adjoint:
1366      * avoid extensive recomputatations
1367      * fix missing re-init. of gptr (missed by TAF)
1368    o obcs: add a flag (OBCSprintDiags, defaults is true) that allows
1369      me to turn off the excessive output to STDOUT that this package produces
1370    o move NH metric terms & 3.D Coriolis S/R to pkg/mom_common
1371      and add those terms in Vector-Invariant formulation.
1372    o in ctrl pkg, if ALLOW_CAL, use monthly mean controls
1373      if the control period (xx_hfluxperiod etc) is 0
1374    o in profiles pkg, clean routines and fix details
1375    o in ecco pkg, reading ssh data:
1376      fix problem in case the model does not start at iter0=0
1377    o fix mnc-pickup/restart for ptracers
1378    o new package prifiles:
1379      code to compute profile-based cost by Gael Forget
1380      (modifs in ecco, ctrl, autodiff)
1381    o Benign bug fix in initialization (spotted by M. Mazloff) of
1382      ctrl_set_globfld_xz.F ctrl_set_globfld_yz.F
1383    
1384    checkpoint58c_post
1385    o adjoint: finish NLFS adjoint and provide reference output in
1386      verification/global_ocean.90x40x15/results_ad_nlfs
1387    o seaice: add an EVP solver following Hunke and Dukowicz (1997) and the
1388      documentation of CICE. Turn on by defining SEAICE_ALLOW_EVP in
1389      SEAICE_OPTIONS.h and SEAICEuseEVP=.true. in data.seaice. Works only
1390      with SEAICE_CGRID defined.
1391    o move calendarDumps from "data" to "data.cal" and clean-up the code
1392      with a simple call to pkg/cal S/R: CAL_TIME2WRITE
1393    o add useEXF & useCAL flags (for now, set in hard-coded way)
1394    o add S/R to compute NH-metrics terms & Coriolis f' in vertical momentum
1395      (were missing in NH mode, and wrong in quasihydrostatic mode).
1396      waiting for Chris updated version of calc_gw to add those CALLs.
1397    o fix bug in quasihydrostatic S/R ;
1398      add a test for this option: global_ocean.90x40x15.qshyd
1399    o new S/R "SET_PARMS": set parameters that might depend on the use of some pkgs.
1400      (called from INITIALISE_FIXED, after INI_PARMS & PACKAGES_READPARAMS)
1401    o add on/off flag useOffLine for package OFFLINE
1402    o seaice:
1403      - modify advection so that it works also on the C-grid
1404      - extend loop ranges in seaice_lsr and seaice_dynsolver; fixes
1405        problem in multi-tile runs with C-grid
1406      - add flags for clipping ice velocities and/or masking solver forcing
1407      - fix drag (ocean on ice) formulation and a bug that caused noise in the
1408        C-grid solver
1409      - added a few comments to seaice_diffusion.F
1410      - separate C-grid and B-grid versions more cleanly (UVM and seaiceMaskU/V
1411        are now exclusive)
1412      - add a new ocean-ice stress coupling method (Hibler and Bryan, 1987) which
1413        required re-ordering the code a little:
1414       + make DAIRN global variable (defined in SEAICE)
1415       + move computation of the viscosities eta and zeta into a new separate
1416         routine (because I need to recompute them in seaice_ocean_stress.F)
1417    
1418    checkpoint58b_post
1419    o AIM+thSIce: fix sign of Short-Wave through the Ice ;
1420      update output.txt of exp. aim.5l_cs.thSI
1421    o various mnc cleanups and improvements:
1422      + shrink lookup tables by factor of ~4
1423      + better error reporting when running out of lookup space
1424      + able to handle longer path/file names (up to 500 chars)
1425    o adjoint:
1426      - Another overhaul of store dirs. for NLFS to eliminate  "hidden" recomputations.
1427      - TBD: "hidden" mom_vecinv recomp. in dynamics
1428    o change forcing_In_AB to affects both T,S forcing and Momentum forcing
1429     (allow to differentiate between forcing components using new integer flags:
1430      momForcingOutAB=1/0 & tracForcingOutAB=1/0)
1431     and add new flag to put Dissipation tendency out of Adams-Bashforth.
1432    o ecco
1433      - enable trend removal from SSH anomaly obs.
1434    o adjoint
1435      - a fix for PmEpR when #undef EXACT_CONSERV
1436      - fix of "hidden" recomp. in thermodynamics (no TAF warnings)
1437      - try to fix "hidden" recomp. in forward_step for NLFS
1438        (NLFS seems broken sometimes after I checked it in)
1439    o seaice:
1440     - add c-grid version of the dynamic solver:
1441       + three new routines that are the c-grid substitute lsr, dynsolver
1442         and ostres
1443       + put a few fields that were local to dynsolver into global common
1444         blocks, so that I can move the computation of stresses etc into
1445         seaice_lsr (saves coding but may break the adjoint).
1446     - replace more hardwired parameters by runtime parameters
1447     - add ice masks that mask the rhs of the implicit solvers where there
1448       is no ice (commented out in seaice_dynsolver, because i am not sure
1449       if this works properly), eventually this should replace the clipping
1450       of ice velocities in seaice_dynsolver to +/-40cm/s.
1451    o remove the BUILD_INFO.h include from CPP_EEOPTIONS.h and explicitly
1452      include it only where its needed
1453    o move balancing of fluxes before the call of external_forcing_surf
1454    o seaice:
1455      - correct units of turning angles (now they are really in degrees)
1456      - move computation of GWATX/Y out of main routine into dynsolver
1457      - initialize GWATX/Y in seaice_init
1458    o Apply mask on Fresh-Water flux (needed for SSH forcing).
1459      update output.txt of exp. global_ocean_ebm & cpl_aim+ocn (affects cg2d residual)
1460    o seaice: add runtime flags for turning angles (default to zero)
1461    o Adding runtime parameter to exf/, ctrl/, to remove on-the-fly global mean
1462      and trend from exf forcing and ctrl control adjustments
1463    o fix variable aliasing in gad_calc_rhs that cannot be handled by TAF
1464      (since checkpoint57x_post)
1465    o change the default rotation period to 86164.s = the Earth rotation
1466    o 1rst implementation of Implicit IGW using the 3-D solver (use3Dsolver=T)
1467      and based on a reference stratification. Tested within hs94.cs-32x32x5.
1468    o seaice advection: add code for choosing between the default (2nd order
1469      central differences) and multiDim advection schemes provided by
1470      pkg/generic_advdiff
1471    o seaice:
1472      - removed all references to SEAICE_GRID.h fields from
1473        dynsolver, advect, diffus, lsr, without changing the results of lab_sea
1474        (cubed-sphere configuration will change a little)
1475      - grid computations in seaice_init are obsolete now.
1476      - cleaned up code a little so that is easier to read (hopefully).
1477      - added new (better?) discretizations of default advection and diffusion
1478        (turn on with SEAICEuseFluxForm)
1479      - replace 1 in 3d global fields by kSurface in growth.F
1480      
1481    checkpoint58a_post
1482    o seaice:
1483      - bug fix in advect.F
1484    o shelfice:
1485      - separate shelfice load anomaly from pload (breaks with time
1486        dependent forcing), => introduce constant field shelficeLoadAnomaly.
1487        Its default is 0., but it may be computed more cleverly from (unknown)
1488        t- and s-profiles (tRef, sRef) and actual EOS. For now this has to be
1489        done offline. A good approximation of the pressure load anomaly is
1490        necessary to avoid large initial adjustment processes underneath
1491        deep-reaching shelfice.
1492      - small fix in ISOMIP shelfice_thermodynamics
1493      - add more sophisticated thermodynamics of Hellmer (1989), this is
1494        now the default
1495      - give a few constants more intuitive names
1496    o add code to balance EmPmP and Qnet at the end of do_ocean_physics. Useful
1497      if bulk formulae are used in long integration (especially EmPmR). Turn
1498      on with balanceEmPmR = .true. or balanceQnet = .true. in data, PARM01
1499      if balancePrintMean, the imbalance that is substracted is printed to
1500      STDOUT.
1501    o fix bug (typo) in obcs_apply_eta.F
1502    o add a new package shelfice which enables us to model the circulation
1503      underneath shelf-ice with draughts of hundreds of meters.
1504     - works
1505     - to do: + include improved thermodynamics
1506              + check whether kSurfC (from model/inc/SURFACE.h) can be used
1507                instead of new field kTopC
1508              + can we use topoFile, Ro_surf and existing code in ini_depth.F
1509                instead of new field R_shelfIce and new code in ini_depth.F
1510                and ini_mask_etc.F?
1511              + adjust vertical mixing schemes?
1512    o seaice pkg:
1513     - add a cpp-flag to include a simple formula for a salinity dependent
1514       freezing point of sea water at the surface
1515     - change the contents of SEAICE_TEST_ICE_STRESS_1 so that zonal and
1516       meridional stresses are now different (and hopefully correct)
1517    o AIM pkg: change threshold on large-scale condensation to conserve Heat.
1518       update results of aim.5l_LatLon test ; fix title & units of AIM diagnostics
1519       and  change 3 diagnostics names (OSR,OSRCLR,KM -> TSR,TSRCLR,DRAG)
1520    o pkg/diagnostics: add options and parameters for regional-statistics
1521       diagnostics ; define regions by reading a region-mask from a file
1522       (might add other options later)
1523    o pkg/bulk_force:
1524     - add option and parameters to use AIM surface-flux formulae.
1525     - Change loading part: S/R BULKF_FIELDS_LOAD only take care of bulkf_fields ;
1526       others forcing fields (defined in PARM05, parameter file "data") are loaded
1527       from S/R EXTERNAL_FIELDS_LOAD, as usually (with useBulkforce = T or F).
1528     - initialise all bulkf_fields in bulkf_init.F ; do in-lining of exf_bulkcdn.F
1529     - use the right EXCH call for uwind,vwind (to work on CS-grid).
1530     - re-arrange header files (move parameters from BULKF.h to BULKF_PARAMS.h)
1531       and parameters (note: calcWindStress replaces .NOT.readwindstress).
1532     - cleaner interface with pkg/thSIce (new S/R THSICE_GET_PRECIP).
1533    
1534    checkpoint58
1535    o add "--embed-source" option to genmake2 which, when the supporting
1536      tools can be compiled (as determined by genmake2) will turn on the
1537      embed_files package which then embeds the entire MITgcm source code
1538      (*.[fFhc] + Makefile) used for the build within the executable
1539      - requested by CNH but off by default
1540      - adds a paltry <9MB to the mitgcmuv executable in most cases
1541      - only writes the output when useEMBEDSRC in eedata is true
1542    o clean up 3-dim. relaxation codes:
1543      * Fix I/O inconsistency in pkg/rbcs: replace precFloat32 by readBinaryPrec
1544      * Remove 3-dim. relaxation code from pkg/exf (now use only pkg/rbcs)
1545      * Thanks to Tom Haine for testing!
1546    
1547    checkpoint57z_post
1548    o make CG3D solver compatible with Free-surface at k > 1 (p-coordinate):
1549      affects output (@ truncation level) of exp. plume_on_slope ; updated.
1550    o fix the pickup behavior for obcs in combination with ptracers
1551    o fix a bug in ptracers_external_fields_load
1552    o no AB-2 at the first iteration for Gw (consistent with Gu,Gv,Gt,Gs ...)
1553      affects results of NH experiments (but all our NH tests have Gw[it=1]==0 !!)
1554    o transfered surface NH pressure to eta field (if exactConserv).
1555    o gmredi: fix bugs in slope tapering ldd97 (depthZ had the wrong sign)
1556         and update lab_sea output.txt file.
1557    o completing 3-dim. relaxation code: additional term
1558         1/tau*( theta(i,j,k) - thetaStar(i,j,k) )
1559      in S/R EXTERNAL_FORCING_T (file external_forcing.F)
1560      * At compile time, in "EXF_OPTIONS.h" set
1561          #define  ALLOW_CLIMTEMP_RELAXATION
1562          #define  ALLOW_CLIMSALT_RELAXATION
1563      * At runtime in "data", under &PARM03 set (e.g., units in seconds)
1564          tauThetaClimRelax3Dim = 15552000.0,
1565          tauSaltClimRelax3Dim  = 15552000.0,
1566      * 3 cases:
1567          1) Use a constant-in-time 3-dim. field
1568          2) Provide 12 3-dim. fields corresponding to Jan., ... , Dec.
1569          3) Real-time relax. to time-evolving prescribed field
1570    o Adding Laplacian-type smoothness constraint on
1571      initial and boundary (forcing) controls (ic, bc)
1572      * enable at compile-time via
1573        ALLOW_SMOOTH_IC_COST_CONTRIBUTION, ALLOW_SMOOTH_BC_COST_CONTRIBUTION
1574      * enable at run-time via mult_smooth_ic = 1, mult_smooth_bc = 1
1575      * Absolute scale somewhat unclear so far
1576      * no area weighting was included since no other cost term does so far
1577    
1578    checkpoint57y_post
1579    First step for a NLFS adjoint
1580    o initially suppress rStar (new flag DISABLE_RSTAR_CODE)
1581    o new init. routines for calc_r_star, calc_surf_dr
1582    o still need to deal with ini_masks_etc
1583    o testreport seemed happy
1584    checkpoint57y_pre
1585    
1586    o obcs: always reset wVel & eta (to zero or prescribe it) at the OBs.
1587    o add new package rbcs (for relaxing ptracers at boundaries/depth/surface etc)
1588    o add new offset feature to offline pkg (plus minor cleanup)
1589    o cfc fixes for final year of integration
1590    o clean up GCHEM_OPTIONS.h/DIC_OPTIONS.h (all options should
1591      be in GCHEM_OPTIONS).
1592    
1593    checkpoint57x_post
1594    o fix testreport Pb in multiple test experiment.
1595    o cleanup our namelist syntax in verification:
1596      - make it more F95 standards compliant (some work still needed)
1597      - allows the vast majority of our tests to work with gfortran
1598    o Non-Hydrostatic:
1599     - put all NH variables (formerly in DYNVARS.h & GW.h) in NH_VARS.h
1600     - fix exchange calls for CS-grid using the new EXCH_S3D_RL.
1601    o Allow to apply AB on T,S rather than on AB(gT,gS):
1602     - implemented within #ifdef ALLOW_ADAMSBASHFORTH_3
1603     - use the same arrays (gtNm,gsNm) to hold tracer field at previous
1604       time-steps (if AB(T,S)) and tendencies (if AB(gT,gS)).
1605     - need a "clever" read_pickup to restart from the other AB formulation
1606    o move local commom bloc /GlobalLo/ (used for singleCpuIO) in EESUPPORT.h
1607    o remove some unused variables (reduces number of compiler warnings)
1608    o adjoint
1609      * Disable useVariableViscosity for adjoint for time being
1610        (there are a number of extensive recomputations)
1611      * Initialize certain variables needed for adjoint
1612    
1613    checkpoint57w_post
1614    o pkg/mdsio: use MAX_LEN_FNAM (instead of hard coded 80) for file-names
1615                 fix the singleCpuIO RS version of MDSWRITEFIELD
1616       and add a WARNING if using globalFiles=T with multi-processors.
1617    o write grid-file(s) in only one format (MDS or MNC): default=MNC (if
1618      using MNC); can force MDS output by setting writegrid_mnc=F in data.mnc
1619    o tracer advection scheme:
1620      add DST-2 (=Lax-Wendroff) & 1rst order upwind schemes (the way to get
1621       those 2 schemes before, changing GAD_FLUX_LIMITER.h + to recompile,
1622       was not very convenient).
1623      add implicit version for DST-3 & DST3_Flux_Limit vertical advection;  
1624       (further tests needed for the implicit DST & Flux-Limiter schemes).
1625    o PTRACERS: added namelist parameter PTRACERS_ref in analogy to tRef
1626      and sRef for convenience, handy, when you want to initialize
1627      ptracers in a large domain with a constant non-zero value. Also,
1628      untangle ptracers_init.F a little.
1629    
1630    checkpoint57v_post
1631    o change dome exp. to use variable viscosity in side-drag terms.
1632    o remove all the files from the cfc_offline test since they are now
1633      incorporated into tutorial_cfc_offline which has been producing
1634      identical results for a few days of testing
1635    o add new parameter: sideDragFactor to enable half-slip-side BC
1636      and change side-drag S/R to use viscosity from mom_calc_visc
1637      (can switch back by setting sideDragFactor=0.); affects results at
1638      truncation level; regenerate output for exp.: global_ocean.cs32x10(x3),
1639       global_ocean_ebm, global_ocean_pressure, matrix_example & MLAdjust(x5).
1640    o vorticity & strain are now computed without masking, to account for
1641      no-slip-side BC in variable viscosity calculation ; mask is applied
1642      anyway later on, before computing advection/coriolis terms.
1643    o modify exp4 to test new obcs support for reading from external files
1644      and for passive tracers
1645    o fix behavior of ptracers_monitor when monitor output is written to a
1646      netcdf-file; still not independent of monitor.F (writes in the same
1647      file).
1648    o change default value of tRef (put a uniform, meaningful value for ocean
1649      & atmos) and initialize sRef (was missing, as Martin mentioned).
1650    o Redefine viscC?Leith*.  Change the coefficients of Leith viscosity
1651      to be proportional to enstrophy dissipation length.  Thus,
1652       viscC?leith?_new=pi*(viscC?leith?_old)^(1/3)
1653      This is now consistent with Smagorinsky and with the manual.
1654    
1655    checkpoint57u_post
1656    o OBCS and PTRACERS: add open boundary support for passive tracers
1657      - either use homogenous (pseudo) v.Neumann conditions or prescribe
1658        OB-values from file; this is not different from the way theta and salinity
1659        are treated
1660      - however, Orlanski-radiation conditions are not supported, and the model
1661        will stop if you use pTracers and Orlanski at the same time.
1662      - beefed up the rountine obcs_external_fields_load: now only those open
1663        boundary values are overwritten with values from files for which there
1664        are really files, otherwise the OB-fields remain untouched. This makes
1665        it possible to use different OBs at different ends of the domain (as
1666        with EXF)
1667    o reduce number of exch calls in shap_filt (s2).
1668    o CS-grid: fix divergence contribution to Leith viscosity. Affects (@
1669      truncation level) 4/5 MLAdjust test results (11&12 digits match).
1670    
1671    checkpoint57t_post
1672    o test biharmonic viscosity + no-slip with exp: global_ocean.cs32x15.viscA4
1673    o finish adding brackets (coriolis S/R, vecinv) in multi-terms sum to get
1674      same truncation, independent of the face number: affects affects several
1675      test. exp.: Update global_ocean.cs32x15 (+.thsice) & MLAdjust (all 5).
1676    o fix bug in mom_v_sidedrag (biharmonic viscosity was counted 2 times);
1677      note that biharmonic viscosity + no-slip was not tested in any experiment.
1678    o fix bug in non-linear free-surf side-drag ; generate new output for
1679      global_ocean.cs32x15(+.thsice) & global_ocean_pressure.
1680    o make mnc honor the writeBinaryPrec flag for most kinds of output
1681    o eesupp: split EEPARAMS into EESIZE/EEPARAMS and add a vector global sum
1682    o minor change in averaging W (mom_vi_?_vertshear.F) that affects truncation
1683      error; update output from global_ocean.cs32x15(+.thsice) & MLAdjust (all 5).
1684    o add brackets in multi-terms sum to get same truncation, independent of
1685      the face number (manage to get exactly same value of gU,gV at the cs-edge)
1686      affects several test. exp. Update global_ocean.cs32x15 (+.thsice).
1687    o Clean, new version of mom_calc_visc.  Adds a new feature, viscAhRemax
1688      and viscA4Remax, which allow one to limit the minimum viscosity by specifying
1689      a maximum grid-scale Reynolds number.  Also, changes all length calculations
1690      in the case of grid anisotropy to geometric mean of dx**2 and dy**2.
1691      Suggested values of viscosity parameters found in mom_calc_visc.
1692      Many new viscosity diagnostics available.
1693    
1694    checkpoint57s_post
1695    o Add clearing-house for viscosity calculations, mom_calc_visc and
1696      correct numerous bugs in LeithD and Smagorinsky discretizations.  
1697      mom_calc_visc now allows for Smagorinsky, Leith and LeithD to be
1698      used simultaneously, and to be used in mom_vecinv and mom_fluxform.
1699      Mom_vecinv can be used with standard viscous calculation (mom_vi_hdissip.F)
1700      and with Strain-Tension viscous term calculation (mom_hdissip.F).  
1701      The Strain-Tension form is now called with useStrainTensonVisc=.true.
1702      ViscAhStrain and viscAhTension are now retired.
1703    o diagnostics "VISCAHD" & "VISCA4D" replace "VISCAH" & "VISCA4".
1704    o In response to JMC's bug report, genmake2 now ignores any soft-links
1705      that it finds in the *current* directory when searching for files.
1706      Soft-links found in any other source directories will still work as
1707      they did before.
1708    o add HAVE_SETRLSTK define and useSETRLSTK flag (eedata) which calls
1709      a C routine to unlimit the stack size
1710    o mnc-ify pkg/aim snapshot vars
1711    o mnc-ify pkg/land as requested by Daniel
1712    o various changes to mnc including:
1713      - all files use the new "BASENAME[[.ITER].{t|f}NUM].nc" format
1714      - output can now be grouped so that all files within a group
1715          change the ITER portion of their names in lock-step together
1716      - can now read ("global") PER-FACE (in addition to PER-TILE) files
1717          and works with both EXCH1 and EXCH2 (but needs more testing)
1718      - writing works for all verification test cases w/ g77 on Linux
1719    
1720    checkpoint57r_post
1721    o make MNC variable initialization happen earlier
1722    o add diagnostics for (almost) each term of the momentum Eq.
1723    o remove SST,SSS,UVEL_k2,VVEL_k2 diagnostics.
1724    o move pkg timeave out of pkg-groups "oceanic" & "atmospheric" (pkg/pkg_groups)
1725    o remove MINIMAL_TAVE_OUTPUT option ;
1726      add "dumpInitAndLast" to replace "nodumps" (and MINIMAL_TAVE_OUTPUT).
1727    o move some basic S/R (used elsewhere in the code) from pkg/mdsio to eesupp/src
1728      allows to compile without pkg/mdsio (& test successfully hs94.1x64x5)
1729    o add MNC output for adjoint of EXF (adexf), SEAICE (adseaice)
1730    o add time-dependent SST, SSS control
1731    o cost terms in ecco/ modularized (new cost_generic.F)
1732    o cost_averages routines are modularized (new cost_averagesgeneric.F)
1733    o new infrastructure for seaice model vs. obs misfits in seaice/
1734      * driver from the_main_loop.F is seaice_cost_driver.F
1735      * first term is AREA vs. SMR observation misfit (ALLOW_SEAICE_COST_SMR_AREA)
1736      * gradient check in Exp. 6a of natl_box_adjoint/
1737    o natl_box_adjoint input_seaice for Lab. Sea now available online via wget
1738      (see README file)
1739    
1740    checkpoint57q_post
1741    o fix initialisation Pb in calc_gw (get NANs in exp5 with g77)
1742    o fix annoying months-old bug in mnc/mdsio output for seaice pkg
1743      - bug was reported by Jean-Michel and Ian Fenty
1744    o fix initialization Pb in AIM-Ocean coupled model (aim_sice2aim.F)
1745      update exp. cpl_aim+ocn output.
1746    o Implement 4-level checkpointing: AUTODIFF_4_LEVEL_CHECKPOINT
1747      Needed for high-res. runs with large global files
1748      to be able to limit tapelev size
1749    o Changed some tests for adjoint:
1750      * carbon/ now tests AUTODIFF_2_LEVEL_CHECKPOINT
1751      * natl_box_adjoint/code_bulk/ tests AUTODIFF_4_LEVEL_CHECKPOINT
1752      * global_ocean.90x40x15/ back to default 3-level checkpointing
1753    o Modifications to enable scripted COMMON to MODULE conversion
1754      * verification/OpenAD/code/ has necessary scripts and description;
1755      * converts, compiles and runs successfully;
1756    
1757    checkpoint57p_post
1758    o reading of delXfile & delYfile moved from ini_parms.F to ini_grid.F
1759    o move ${PKG}_MNC_INIT from ${PKG}_READ_PARAMS to ${PKG}_INIT_FIXED
1760      (already the case for some pkgs, including recent MNC_init, e.g. thsice)
1761    o call CALC_GW from DYNAMICS (instead of from FORWARD_STEP)
1762    o Dissipation & phiHyd gradient are always added to gU,gV in timestep.F
1763      (was already the case for dissipation with mom_vecinv,
1764       and also the case for grad.PhiHyd when staggered-timeStep)
1765      This will allow to put dissipation out-off the AB time-stepping.
1766     Unfortunately, affects truncation error. Update output of exp. that "fails"
1767      (cg2d matching number) and leave the others for later: front_relax(10),
1768      global_ocean_pressure(10),ideal_2D_oce(10),internal_wave(9),lab_sea(12),
1769      matrix_example(7!),natl_box(12),plume_on_slope(11),vermix(12x3,11x2).
1770    
1771    checkpoint57o_post
1772    o fix MNC/MDSIO flags in PTRACERS so that (1) it works, and
1773      (2) its ready to be documented during the 20050801 DocFest
1774    o MNC-ify the gmredi package -- tested and works w/ and w/o mnc
1775      for ideal_2D_oce and lab_sea on linux_ia32_g77
1776    o set to #undef CTRL_SET_OLD_MAXCVARS_30
1777      in global1x1_tot/code_seaice_adj to access indices 32, 33
1778      (worth another tag)
1779    
1780    checkpoint57n_post
1781    o adding precip control xx_precip 32
1782    o adding swflux control xx_swflux 33
1783    o Replacing 10 forcing penalty cost routines by 1 generic.
1784    o Implementing partitioning in time-mean and variable adjustment
1785      for atmos. state.
1786    o Time-mean constant error is now read in data.ecco (instead of hard-coded)
1787    o in natl_box_adjoint:
1788      * updated exp 1 to 10
1789        (but does not have time-mean vs. variable split results yet)
1790    o updated global1x1/*_seaice_adj/
1791      to incorporate latest changes
1792    o enable useSingleCpuIO for mdsio vector routines
1793      (applies in particular to tapelev I/O)
1794    o removed inefficient K-loop in all active_file*control*.F
1795    
1796    checkpoint57m_post
1797    o re-arrange exp. adjustment.cs-32x32x1 (adjust_nlfs.cs-32x32x1 merge into)
1798      and advect_cs (use EXCH-2 and standard cs-32 grid files).
1799    o pkg/exch2: filling of face-corner halo regions is optional
1800      (ifdef W2_FILL_NULL_REGIONS) and is turned off by default.
1801    
1802    checkpoint57l_post
1803     tag before updating tutorials (pre-release-2)
1804    o add cos & sin of grid-direction orientation angle (curvilinear grid only,
1805       for output and interpolation of input fields onto model grid)
1806    o fix radius in mom_v_metric_cylinder.F (wrong by dy/2).
1807       Affects results of exp. rotating_tank ; update output.txt.
1808    o pkg/diagnostics: 2 new S/R to fill a diagnostics using a scaling factor
1809          and taking the square quantity and/or using a fraction-weight field.
1810    o fix aim_diagnostics_init.F mate numbers.
1811    o add mnc output capability to diagnostics/diagstat and update
1812      our cvsignore files for the ACSII output generated
1813    
1814    checkpoint57k_post
1815    o lab_sea now uses diagnostics package and provides a suite of
1816      new EXF diagnostics output.
1817    
1818    checkpoint57j_post
1819    o exf
1820      * bug fix in exf_bulkformulae for psimh (spotted by Eliyahu Biton):
1821        Bracket missing in eqn. for psimh (eqn. 7 of Large & Pond, 1982);
1822        terms -2*ATAN(x) + pi/2 were added to both stable and unstable case.
1823      * extended diagnostics output
1824        - now includes all EXF variables
1825        - hs, hl moved to common block
1826        - separate S/R for diagnostics, called after ctrl vector is added
1827        - name changed for EXFsw -> EXFswnet, EXFlw -> EXFlwnet
1828        - EXFqnet contains true Qnet (i.e. includes qsw)
1829      * updated verif. lab_sea, global_with_exf
1830      * Rearranging hflux (exf_mapfields -> exf_getforcing)
1831        to ensure that diagnostics sees a true EXFqnet
1832    o add matlab scripts for CS-grid vectors (in utils/cs_grid)
1833    o diagnostics pkg: change pointers so that 1 diagnostic can be used
1834      several times with different frequencies.
1835    o mnc-ify the thsice package as requested by Daniel Enderton
1836      - the monitor--MNC output needs work
1837      - many attributes need to be added (most are currently blank)
1838    o mnc-ify theaim_v23 package as requested by Daniel Enderton
1839      - many attributes need to be added (most are currently blank)
1840    o remove "groundAtK1" & "rkFac" (replaced by usingPCoords & -rkSign)
1841    o add Sadourny like discretization to the 4th.O vorticity advection scheme
1842    o fix bug in rStar code (calc_r_star.F) when used with topo/bathy.
1843      update output.txt from: aim.5l_cs (& .thSI), cpl_aim+ocn,
1844         fizhi-gridalt-hs and global_ocean.cs32x15 (& .thsice).
1845    o fix few little things to avoid floating error with -ftrapuv (ifort v9)
1846     (ini_spherical_polar_grid.F, calc_r_star.F, monitor/mon_surfcor.F)
1847    
1848    checkpoint57i_post
1849    o Diagnostics package was changed: diagnostic allocation is now deactivated
1850      by setting an empty file name in the namelist (used to be by setting 0 frequency)
1851    o momentum advection (VI form) options: activate 4th.O vorticity Coriolis ;
1852      add 1rst Order upwind vertical Shear.
1853    o add a quick fix for A/B checkpointing in OFFLINE mode
1854    o add IGNORE_TIME define and -ignore_time option to genmake2 as an
1855      end-run around the C/Fortran linking horror in eesup/src/timers.F
1856    o added pkg/runclock: allows user to terminate run based on wall clock
1857    o added non-hydrostatic scaling parameter: nh_am2
1858    o pkg/my82: futile attempt to make results compiler-independent by adding
1859      some "_d 0", etc. no effect.
1860    o for mnc output, fill the 'T' coordinate var with myTime and create a
1861      separate 'iter' variable for iteration count
1862    o pkg/diagnostics:
1863      add new capability: output of Global/Regional & per-level statistics ;
1864      tested against monitor output (including land & thSIce) on various exp.
1865    o make seaice-pkg I/O type flags (MNC/MDS) more standard.
1866    
1867    checkpoint57h_done
1868      tag after changing user customized files (DIAGNOSTICS_SIZE.h,
1869      data.diagnostics, data.gchem, data.ptracers) is done.
1870    
1871    o pkg/diagnostics: prepare for Global/Regional statistics.
1872      add 2nd namelist in data.diagnostics and update DIAGNOSTICS_SIZE.h
1873    o remove "baseTime" (no used) from arg. list of DIFF_BASE_MULTIPLE
1874      and rename it: DIFFERENT_MULTIPLE
1875    
1876    checkpoint57h_post
1877    o move tIter0 from data.gchem to PTRACERS_Iter0 in data.ptracers
1878    o pkg/diagnostics: change output frequency, now in seconds (instead
1879      of Nb of iterations). This requires to change data.diagnostics.
1880    checkpoint57h_pre
1881    
1882    o in mnc, let the user create the output dir if both mnc_outdir_date
1883      and mnc_outdir_num are false
1884    o add fflags() to pkg/diagnostics which allows one to specify, on a
1885      per-file basis, the file precision [default behavior is unchanged]
1886    o added diagnostics to pkg/kpp, including computation of mixed layer
1887      depth based on a temperature/density criterion
1888    o updated verification/natl_box to test the new pkg/kpp diagnostics
1889    o bugs fixed (with useAbsVorticity=T & with useJamartMomAdv=T)
1890    o test AB-3 code with 4th.Order advection scheme (advect_xy/input.ab3_c4)
1891    o fix mnc flags in pkg/seaice so that they are "owned" by seaice,
1892      not mnc -- this mistake was found by JMC and is now corrected
1893    
1894    checkpoint57g_post
1895    o add Adams-Bashforth 3rd Order time stepping:
1896      - default remains AB-2 (#undef ALLOW_ADAMSBASHFORTH_3)
1897      - not yet implemented with NH, CD_Scheme, pTracers, MNC_pickup ...
1898    checkpoint57g_pre
1899    
1900    o make lambda[Theta,Salt]ClimRelax spatially varying
1901      (default remains spatially uniform constant based on tau)
1902    o added new control variables
1903      * init. uVel, vVel, etanN
1904      * lambda[Theta,Salt]ClimRelax
1905    o separate masks used for ctrl_pack/unpack 'from write_grid' output
1906      (suggested by G. Forget)
1907    
1908    checkpoint57f_post
1909    o add parameter "baseTime" = model base time = time at iteration zero
1910      new function DIFF_BASE_MULTIPLE (replace DIFFERENT_MULTIPLE) to
1911      account for baseTime shift
1912    o move Coriolis arrays from PARAMS.h to GRID.h
1913    checkpoint57f_pre
1914    
1915    o mnc-ifying the seaice package
1916    o introduced an alternative length scale calculation for use in the limiting
1917      maximum viscosity (off by default, see mom_vi_hdissip.F for details)
1918    o S/R ptracers_calc_diff: argument list bug for CALL KPP_CALC_DIFF_S
1919    o added modified Leith scheme with viscosity proportional to grad(Hdiv)
1920      as well as grad(vort3).  Made it compatible with both approximate form
1921      for the cubed sphere and full form of these gradients.  Added flag
1922      useFullLeith to select between approximate and full form.  
1923    o add "d0" in getcon.F to reduce differences between compilers/platforms
1924      update output.txt of exp. fizhi-gridalt-hs
1925    o change port_rand funtion to allow to set the seed.
1926    o fix obscure MNC bug involving conversion between reals and integers
1927      - it caused no problems with certain (eg. gcc, ifc) compilers but the
1928        new version is now more standards-compliant
1929    o adjoint-related modifications
1930      * gad_dst3_adv_?: to be able to use advscheme=30 in adjoint
1931      * gad_calc_rhs: fool adjoint, revert to advscheme=30 in reverse when using 33
1932      * mom_vi_hdissip: to be able to use Leith scheme in adjoint
1933    
1934    checkpoint57e_post
1935    o Adding eddy stress controls a la Ferreira et al.
1936    checkpoint57e_pre (actually was tagged: eckpoint57e_pre)
1937    
1938    o fizhi pkg: fix AtoC and CtoA when called with same input & output array
1939      update output.txt of exp. fizhi-gridalt-hs
1940    o add more "Z" dimensions and associated coordinate vars to MNC
1941    o pkg/exf: added twoDigitYear capability for option useExfYearlyFields
1942    o parameter calendarDumps: when set, approximate months (30-31 days) and years
1943      (360-372 days) for parameters chkPtFreq, pChkPtFreq, taveFreq, SEAICE_taveFreq,
1944      KPP_taveFreq, and freq in pkg/diagnostics are converted to exact calendar
1945      months and years.  Requires pkg/cal.
1946    o diagnostics: add pickup functionality
1947      - off by default for backwards compatibility
1948      - current version only uses MDSIO -- MNC will be added
1949    o allow to use pkg diagnostics for LAND pkg output & Shapiro Tendencies.
1950    o pkg/shap_filt: fix for multi-tiles per face (CS-grid with EXCH2)
1951    
1952    checkpoint57d_post
1953    o pkg/thsice used in the ocean: fix tile Pb related to sIceLoad forcing
1954    o modify verification/ideal_2D_oce so that it tests the creation of mnc
1955      output from the diagnostics package
1956    o temporary fix in EXCH2_UV: add a 3rd call to fix the 24.tiles CS-grid set-up
1957    o make genmake2 more portable by using ".$FS" instead of ".f" for more
1958      of the test compilations (eg. IBM xlf on Mac OSX w/HFS filesys)
1959    o add coordinate variables to the MNC output from the diagnostics package
1960    o change MNC-flags default value: true when useMNC=TRUE
1961    o add a "readgrid_mnc" flag to MNC and give model/src/ini_curvilinear_grid.F
1962      the ability (off by default) to read the grid information using MNC
1963    o lab_sea: use LSR_ERROR=1.E-12 for testing ; update output.txt
1964    o diagnostics: fix a bug (sub-set of levels); keep full precision when averaging
1965    o do snap-shot diagnostics at the middle of the time-interval (instead of
1966      at the end).
1967    o update exp. aim.5l_cs (use default LAND_OPTIONS.h file) and add
1968      new test for AIM with thSIce + slab-ocean
1969    o cpl_aim+ocn test: update output (optfile & default GMREDI_OPTIONS.h)
1970    o move state variable diagnostics to the beginning of the time step ;
1971      (note: still needs some work specially for snap-shot diagnostics)
1972      duplicate & replace UVELVVEL diagnostics with UV_VEL_C & UV_VEL_Z
1973    
1974    checkpoint57c_post
1975    o Change testing option (-ieee) to get closer agreement between g77 & ifort
1976    o generate new output.txt files on faulks with g77 & the new -ieee option
1977    checkpoint57c_pre
1978    
1979    o add "_d 0" in freeze ; change some "FLOAT" to "DFLOAT" and went back (TAF);
1980      update output.txt of exp. global_ocean.90x40x15
1981    o fix in ini_eos.F (one "_d 0" was missing): now g77 & ifc give much closer
1982      results; update global_ocean_pressure & global_ocean.cs32x15 output.txt
1983    o add saltFlux(+File) forcing capability with periodicExternalForcing
1984    o allow to use pkg diagnostics for GM-Redi & ThSIce output
1985    o diagnostics_fill: fill in up to sNx+1 or sNy+1 (if U,V or Z pt) for mnc.
1986    o improvements for the MNC output from DIAGNOSTICS:
1987      - correct handling of the unlimitied dimension
1988      - all dims now have associated coordinate variables
1989      - variables located at U, V, and Corner ("Z") points are now written
1990        with the correct horzontal dimensions (eg. 'Xp1', 'Yp1') so that
1991        *all* data points are output
1992    o added seaice_summary.F and removed obsolete ALLOW_SEAICE's from pkg/seaice
1993    o added pkg/seaice/seaice_monitor.F
1994    o mdsio_readfield.F can now read files visible only to master MPI process.
1995    o pkg/seaice: some test code for ice-modified ocean stress
1996    o exf_getffields interpolation defaults to bilinear for all scalar forcing
1997      fields (remains bicubic for wind velocity and stress).  This avoids, e.g.,
1998      spurious negative numbers for precipitation and humidity.  Will cause
1999      some small numerical differences for integrations using pkg/exf/exf_interp.F.
2000    o pkg/ctrl/
2001      * Add ctrlvec diagnostics in pack/unpack for nondimensional I/O
2002        May be enabled via doPackDiag
2003      *  introduce z-scaling of
2004         + gradient (doZscalePack) and
2005         + control (doZscaleUnpack)
2006    o pkg/mdsio/
2007      * enable useSingleCpuIO for state estimation (ctrl_pack/unpack) mdsio_gl.F
2008      * N.B.: leave tiled I/O for tapelev (i.e. mds...vector)
2009    
2010    checkpoint57b_post
2011    o simplify options in diagnostics_fill arguments (remove weird combinations)
2012    o fix MNC coordinate variables so that they now contain per-face index
2013      values (instead of xC,xG,yC,yG values) when run with EXCH2 since, in
2014      general, EXCH2 grids are only aligned to a "local" coordinate system
2015    o test diagnostics pkg in dic_example (no output) and ideal_2D_oce (with ouput)
2016    o Implement instantaneous output within pkg diagnostics:
2017      setting a negative frequency in data.diagnostics produces
2018     "snap-shot" output (as opposed to time-average if freq > 0)
2019    o move out off EQUIVALENCE all diagnostics that fizhi does not use ;
2020      NOTE: change ptracer diagnostics name: use 2 characters to work with
2021            more than 9 tracers. Add also diagnostics of advect & diffus flux.
2022    o more CF compliance: convert all MNC 'iter' variables to 'T' so that it
2023      becomes the coordinate variable for the 'T' dimension
2024    o add CF-style coordinate variables to MNC
2025      - just a first cut:  numbers are meaningless on the cubesphere and
2026        missing along the T axis but otherwise it works!
2027    o add surface flux diagnostics: TAUX, TAUY, TFLUX, TRELAX, TICE, SFLUX, SRELAX
2028    o pkg/thSIce: read initial state from 6 files ; allow monitor to use MNC.
2029    o add diagnostics of advective & diffusive flux for T & S (pTracers coming soon)
2030      this is based directly on what the model compute, so that the content of
2031      each diagnostics might be affected by switching options (e.g., implicitDiffusion)
2032    o small changes for diagnostics (gad_biharm_?.F, arguments of S/R impldiff.F)
2033    o clean up build options files for SunOS, in particular
2034      - remove -traditional from xmakedepend
2035      - change -xarch=v9 to -xarch=native for f77
2036      - restore use of make (not gmake)
2037      - add CC=gcc if using g77
2038    o changes per discussion of AM, JMC, & EH3 today:
2039      - move redundant "grid" variables out of "state" -- in preparation of
2040        creating proper CF-style coordinate variables and in recognition
2041        that any/all grid variables can be easily copied (eg. w/NCO) from
2042        the grid files into any of the other NetCDF files
2043      - *always* output grid variables with MDSIO (this will eventually be
2044        changed)
2045      - output MNC grid file if useMNC is true
2046    o every instance of _END_MASTER() has been found and replaced with
2047      _END_MASTER( myThid ) in order to satisfy certain picky Sun
2048      preprocessors
2049    o re-arrange diagnostics pkg initialisation:
2050     - allow each package to extend the available diagnostics list
2051     - add some checking and fix small problems (multi-threaded, ...)
2052     - new S/R diagnostics_fill (replace fill_diagnostics):
2053       look through the short list of active diag. (instead of the long list)
2054       create function DIAGNOSTICS_IS_ON to tell if a diagnostics is active
2055    
2056    checkpoint57a_post
2057    o this set of changes restores TAMC compatibility
2058      tested for global_ocean.90x40x15 adjoint on trough
2059      (what a pain)
2060    
2061    checkpoint57a_pre
2062    o some modifs in tools/build_options for sunos
2063    o call ctrl_pack for ctrl at end for optimcycle=0
2064    
2065    checkpoint57
2066    o add horizontal bi-harmonic viscosity for vertical velocity
2067      - new parameter viscA4W (defaults to viscA4)
2068      - affects only non-hydrostatic code
2069      - to be done: no-slip lateral boundary conditions
2070    o switch back to "sflux = sflux - runoff" in exf_getforcing.F
2071    o implement Implicit Vertical advection for pTracers
2072    o depth convergence accelerator: replace deltaTtracer by dTtracerLev(k)
2073      (implemented also for implicit vertical diffusion & advection)
2074    o OBCS: extend application of tracer open boundary conditions
2075      to a strip beyond the boundary of width Olx/Oly
2076    o add call monitor to TAF set of required calls (flow directives)
2077      and include in natl_box_adjoint
2078    o untangle a few ifdefs related to cost, ctrl, autodiff
2079      untangel a few ALLOW_ECCO_OPTIMIZATION
2080    o Apply Cooper & Haines representative estimates also at sub-surface (k=Nr)
2081      (theta2, salt2 in ecco_cost_weights)
2082    
2083    checkpoint56c_post
2084    o OBCS as control variables
2085      - update ctrl_ad_diff.list, obcs_ad_diff.list
2086      - remove balance of obcs controls from default
2087      - fix index bug nobcs in ctrl_init
2088      - fix dummy fields filen in ctrl_pack
2089      - add dummy weights for obcs
2090    o lsopt: comment out fort.94 output
2091    o optim:
2092      - remove unnecessary header files
2093      - adjusted namelists
2094      - add xerbla.F to Makefile
2095    o exf:
2096      - multiple modifications of exf_check_range
2097      - unit change in exf_init_runoff from [m/year] to [m/s]
2098    o mdsio:
2099      - i/o-vector change debugLevel from debLevA to debLevB
2100    
2101    checkpoint56b_post
2102    o collect all ptracers output in an new routine (PTRACERS_OUTPUT) that
2103      is called from DO_THE_MODEL_IO
2104      - rename PTRACERS_STATV_WRITE to PTRACERS_WRITE_TIMEAVE
2105      - introduce new parameter PTRACERS_dumpFreq (defaults to dumpFreq)
2106      - clean up PTRACERS_WRITE_TIMEAVE a little
2107    o add another verification experiment that tests both the cfc-pkg and
2108      the gchem-pkg with GCHEM_SEPARATE_FORCING undefined, that is with
2109      reactive tendencies treated inline with regular timestepping
2110    o testreport previously did a lousy job of comparing small numbers, so
2111      we (Ed and Martin) changed the  way the cut-off of 1.e-12 is
2112      implemented in the little c-progam tmp_cmpnum.c which is embedded in
2113      testreport.
2114    o ptracers_monitor: bug fix for MPI
2115    
2116    checkpoint56a_post
2117    o GCHEM: finish reorganizating the package
2118      - forward_step calls GCHEM_CALC_TENDENDY, which computes gchemTendency
2119        (introduces another 3D-array for each passive tracer, but only if
2120        GCHEM_SEPARATE_FORCING is undefined. For GCHEM_SEPARATE_FORCING
2121        gchemTendency is not needed because the timestep is done separately)
2122      - gchemTendency is added to gPtr in GCHEM_ADD_TENDENCY
2123      - GCHEM is now---more or less cleanly---separate from PTRACERS
2124      - to bo done: handling of surfaceForcingPtr that is needed for KPP not
2125        so clear to me how that should be done in a general way.
2126    o CFC: improve formatting of output in CFC_ATMOS
2127    o PTRACERS:
2128      - rename GCHEM_MONITOR to PTRACERS_MONITOR and call it from MONITOR, so
2129        that ALL experiments with ptracers enable can be checked. This makes
2130        GCHEM_MONITOR obsolete.
2131      - include a runtime parameter PTRACERS_monitorFreq that defaults to
2132        monitorFreq
2133      - set default PTRACERS_write_mdsio to false if PTRACERS_write_mnc is true
2134    o add PTRACERS (PTR0[1-5]) to testreport output
2135    o exf_check_range:
2136      * default changed to .TRUE.
2137      * will check values for niter0 if debLevA, every timestep if debLevB
2138      * STOP in exf_check_range if 'out of range'
2139      * range chosen generous to allow for potential extema
2140      TBD: a version with stricter range
2141           permitted range would be runtime parameters
2142  o GMredi:  o GMredi:
2143    - fix ldd97 slope limit ; extend valid domain of Psi-Bolus ;    - fix ldd97 slope limit ; extend valid domain of Psi-Bolus ;
2144    - change S/R GRAD_SIGMA to be valid in the overlap on CS-grid.    - change S/R GRAD_SIGMA to be valid in the overlap on CS-grid.
# Line 11  o GCHEM: Line 2147  o GCHEM:
2147    - move call to GCHEM_FORCING_SEP, so that it is now called before    - move call to GCHEM_FORCING_SEP, so that it is now called before
2148      the blocking exchanges to avoid computing halos in GCHEM_FORCING_SEP      the blocking exchanges to avoid computing halos in GCHEM_FORCING_SEP
2149    - introduced a useGCHEM runtime flag and applied it everywhere.    - introduced a useGCHEM runtime flag and applied it everywhere.
2150      - renamed PTRACERS_SEPARATE_FORCING to GCHEM_SEPARATE_FORCING;
2151        this flag is now only visible within GCHEM-pkg routines.
2152      - moved gchem_forcing_int temporarily into ptracers_forcing, this will
2153        be replaced by a 3D array that is computed before thermodynamics; for
2154        this, the tracer ID iTracer had to be included into the parameter list
2155        of ptracers_forcing
2156      - set up forward_step to call gchem_forcing, that will replace
2157        gchem_forcing_int in ptracers_forcing
2158      - cleaning up
2159  o small cleaning of exch2: remove files that are also in eesupp/src  o small cleaning of exch2: remove files that are also in eesupp/src
2160    
2161  checkpoint56  checkpoint56
# Line 229  o add two new packages Line 2374  o add two new packages
2374    - my82 (Mellor and Yamada, 1982) level 2 turbulence closure scheme    - my82 (Mellor and Yamada, 1982) level 2 turbulence closure scheme
2375    - these scheme operate in a similar manner as KPP (without ghat, of    - these scheme operate in a similar manner as KPP (without ghat, of
2376      course), however there is only one diffusivity that is used for both      course), however there is only one diffusivity that is used for both
2377      temperature and salinity (and passive tracers)ç      temperature and salinity (and passive tracers)
2378  o add offline package  o add offline package
2379  o add "verification/dic_example" which contains a dic-gchem-ptracer setup  o add "verification/dic_example" which contains a dic-gchem-ptracer setup
2380    provided by Stephanie Dutkiewicz    provided by Stephanie Dutkiewicz

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