Input error when including boundary conditions in 4DVar

[Arvin_Yin]

Hi, everyone!

I have successuflly run the I4D-Var model without "ADJUST_BOUNDARY", , then I defined "ADJUST_BOUNDARY", but I got this error:

<<<< 4D Variational Data Assimilation, Outer = 001, Inner = 000 >>>>

INITIAL: Configuring and initializing forward nonlinear model ...
*******

NETCDF_CHECK_DIM - inconsistent size of dimension: obc_adjust 10 41
in file: ./in/ini_hycom_daily_130101.nc

The file is my initial condition file.

I have checked mode_netcdf.F, and I found:

#ifdef ADJUST_BOUNDARY
CASE ('obc_adjust')
IF (dim_size(i).ne.Nbrec(ng)) THEN
IF (Master) WRITE (stdout,10) TRIM(dim_name(i)), &
& dim_size(i), Nbrec(ng), &
& TRIM(ncname)
exit_flag=2
EXIT
END IF

But I still not clearly understand why the error happen.

Anyone help?

[Arvin_Yin]

Hi, all.

Now I know that this error occur because I have wrong 'NOBC' number in ocean.in file.

Nbrec=1+NTIMES/NOBC should be 10 as the error say.

I don't know why the size of 'obc_adjust' have to be 10. So, it's a new question.

Thanks for your help.

[Gabriel_Carvalho]

Hi,
I recently had the same problem.

I got this error changing the assimilation window lenght.

My ini file comes from my last assimilation cycle (with different NTIMES) and has the vars: zeta_obc, salt_obc, temp_obc, u_obc, v_obc, ubar_obc and vbar_obc, all of them with obc_adjust dimension.

The obc_adjust dimension of this initial file is the number of boundaries adjustments made in the last DA cycle (Nbrec=1+NTIMES/NOBC).

I didn´t want to change NOBC, but as I changed NTIMES, check_dims complains.

My solution was to erase all the variables that has the *_obc from my initial file (I think that they were there unnecessarily anyway).

regards,