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When ROMS (the Nonlinear model) cannot find an input file, it exits, but before it does, CHECKDEFS reports an Illegal model configuration, eg:

 READ_PHYPAR - could not find input file:  stations.in

 Elapsed CPU time (seconds):

 Thread #  0 CPU:       0.063
 Total:                 0.063

 Nonlinear model elapsed time profile:

                                              Total:         0.000    0.0000

 All percentages are with respect to total time =            0.063

 ROMS/TOMS - Output NetCDF summary for Grid 01:

 ROMS/TOMS - Configuration error ..... exit_flag:   5


 ERROR: CHECKDEFS - Illegal model configuration.

When the missing file is supplied, it runs normally.

The Illegal model configuration message seems a bit misleading, and I think this behaviour is new. Is it intentional?

In ROMS/Utility/inp_par.F, lines 1031-1036, the value of NAT is checked:

            IF ((NAT.lt.0).or.(NAT.gt.2)) THEN
              IF (Master) WRITE (out,290) 'NAT = ', NAT,                &
     &                          'make sure that NAT is either 1 or 2.'
              exit_flag=5
              RETURN
            END IF

The logical expression does not match the message. This code is failing to catch cases where I set NAT=0 for a 3D run (because I am adapting input files from a 2D run); the model then fails with an out-of-bounds error or segmentation fault in mod_ncparam.

The check should be

            IF ((NAT.lt.1).or.(NAT.gt.2)) THEN
            ...

I added a new field to varid.dat to allow plotting time-varying bathymetry in sediment morphology applications.

392,'IDBATH',1,T,'bath','-',                   'Time-Varying bathymetry (m)'

This field can now be plotted by using FLDID=392.

 [392]  IDBATH    Time-Varying bathymetry (m)

Many thanks to Nico Jarry for ​bring this to our attention.