DSTART ignored with ANA_INITIAL

[kate]

With ANA_INITIAL, the model time gets overwritten:

ROMS/Nonlinear/initial.F:          time(ng)=io_time                   ! needed for shared-memory

so that setting DSTART is ignored. The variable io_time is set in get_state.F which isn't called in the ANA_INITIAL case. I don't see how INI_FILE can be activated with analytical initial conditions.

[arango]

I do not know what this is all about. In initial.F, we have:

#ifdef INI_FILE
!
!  Read in initial conditions from initial NetCDF file.
!
      DO ng=1,Ngrids
!$OMP MASTER
        CALL get_state (ng, iNLM, 1, INI(ng)%name,                      &
     &                  IniRec(ng), Tindex(ng))
!$OMP END MASTER
# ifdef DISTRIBUTE
        CALL mp_bcasti (ng, iNLM, exit_flag)
# endif
!$OMP BARRIER
        IF (exit_flag.ne.NoError) RETURN
        time(ng)=io_time                     ! needed for shared-memory
      END DO
#else
!
!  If restart, read in initial conditions restart NetCDF file.
!
      DO ng=1,Ngrids
        IF (nrrec(ng).ne.0) THEN
!$OMP MASTER
          CALL get_state (ng, 0, 1, INI(ng)%name,                      &
     &                    IniRec(ng), Tindex(ng))
!$OMP END MASTER
# ifdef DISTRIBUTE
          CALL mp_bcasti (ng, iNLM, exit_flag)
# endif
!$OMP BARRIER
          IF (exit_flag.ne.NoError) RETURN
          time(ng)=io_time                   ! needed for shared-memory
        END IF
      END DO
#endif

This section of the code reads initial conditions from a NetCDF file (ININAME). It can read an initial conditions, history or restart NetCDF file. Notice that the internal C-preprocessing option INI_FILE is set in globaldef.h as:

#if  !defined ANA_INITIAL || \
    ( defined BIOLOGY     && !defined ANA_BIOLOGY)  || \
    ( defined T_PASSIVE   && !defined ANA_PASSIVE)  || \
    ( defined SEDIMENT    && !defined ANA_SEDIMENT) || \
    ( defined BBL_MODEL   && !defined ANA_SEDIMENT)
# define INI_FILE
#endif

So this code is never present when ANA_INITIAL is activated.