Suggestion for standard input files

[jcwarner]

Friendly suggestion: I modified all my input files to help users more easily identify the output variable name with the associated Hout selection. For example i use:

Hout(idUvel) == T        ! u               3D U-velocity
Hout(idVvel) == T        ! v               3D V-velocity
Hout(idWvel) == T        ! w               3D W-velocity
Hout(idOvel) == T        ! omega           omega vertical velocity
Hout(idUbar) == T        ! ubar            2D U-velocity
Hout(idVbar) == T        ! vbar            2D V-velocity
Hout(idFsur) == T        ! zeta            free-surface
Hout(idBath) == T        ! bath            time-dependent bathymetry
Hout(idTvar) == T F      ! temp, salt      temperature and salinity

Hout(idUair) == F        ! Uwind           surface U-wind
Hout(idVair) == F        ! Vwind           surface V-wind
Hout(idUsms) == F        ! sustr           surface U-stress
Hout(idVsms) == F        ! svstr           surface V-stress
Hout(idUbms) == F        ! bustr           bottom U-stress
Hout(idVbms) == F        ! bvstr           bottom V-stress

Hout(idUbrs) == T        ! bustrc          bottom U-current stress
Hout(idVbrs) == T        ! bvstrc          bottom V-current stress
Hout(idUbws) == T        ! bustrw          bottom U-wave stress
Hout(idVbws) == T        ! bvstrw          bottom V-wave stress
Hout(idUbcs) == T        ! bustrcwmax      bottom max wave-current U-stress
Hout(idVbcs) == T        ! bvstrcwmax      bottom max wave-current V-stress
Hout(idUVwc) == F        ! bstrcwmax       bottom max wave-current stress magnitude

Hout(idTsur) == F        ! shflux          surface net heat and salt flux
Hout(idLhea) == F        ! latent          latent heat flux
Hout(idShea) == F        ! sensible        sensible heat flux
Hout(idLrad) == F        ! lwrad           longwave radiation flux
Hout(idSrad) == F        ! swrad           shortwave radiation flux
Hout(idEmPf) == F        ! EminusP         E-P flux
Hout(idevap) == F        ! evaporation     evaporation rate
Hout(idrain) == F        ! rain            precipitation rate

Hout(idDano) == F        ! rho             density anomaly
Hout(idVvis) == T        ! AKv             vertical viscosity
Hout(idTdif) == F        ! AKt             vertical T-diffusion
Hout(idSdif) == F        ! AKs             vertical Salinity diffusion
Hout(idHsbl) == F        ! Hsbl            depth of surface boundary layer
Hout(idHbbl) == F        ! Hbbl            depth of bottom boundary layer
Hout(idMtke) == T        ! tke             turbulent kinetic energy
Hout(idMtls) == T        ! gls             turbulent generic length scale

[arango]

Yes, good suggestion. I added the additional NetCDF variable names to all input scripts. This is done in the ocean_*.in, sediment_*.in, stations_*.in, and all the various biology input scripts. Please notice that these are the default variable names that are set in metadata file varinfo.dat. Recall that Users may change the variables names. I am aware of some Users changing the metadata information to their own language.