Hi everyone,

Does the SCM have the same restart capability as OIFS? I tried setting NFRRES to a variety of values, but it doesn't seem to generate restart files (at least in the run directory of the rest of the output). For a 24-hour run with 15-minute timesteps, I've tried setting NFRRES to -24, -3, 12, and 24. The runs always work (they finish and produce identical diagvar/progvar files), and NAMRES with NFRRES always gets copied correctly to fort.4, but none of the runs produce restart files. Any ideas?

Thanks, -Jareth

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  1. Glenn Carver

    Hi Jareth,

    Sorry for the slow reply, combination of people on sick leave and busy for the openifs workshop.

    The SCM does not have a restart capability. As it's a stripped down version of the IFS code, you still see the namelist and control variables for the restarts but the code that actually writes/reads the restart files: src/ifs/module/yomres.F90: is not there.  I guess because the SCM is so small and runs fast, noone bothered to put in a restart capability.

    I'm not sure if the SCM would work if you copied the missing code from the openifs model code. Might be worth a try but I suspect it wouldn't work first time.

    Cheers,  Glenn