tools:ocean_diagnostics

This is the ocean_diagnostics developers page. Here, developers can consult and update information related to the maintenance and upgrade of the ocean_diagnostics tools, keep track and notify of errors or any ocean-diagnostics related issues.

List of new diagnostics required (links to Ocean diagnostics survey page):
- Computation of density and extraction of density profiles at specific locations.
- Indices of strength of the different gyres
- Meridional Overturning Stream Function as a function of density
- Complete heat and salt budget (3D) in a specific box
- Mixed Layer Depth heat (salt) budget
- Thermocline depth
- Indices of convection in each convective area
- T/S diagrams
- Interpolation of velocities

Suggestions of improvements in the codes
- Could some diagnostics be grouped? Some diagnostics are interrelated and they all require cping the tarballs, untarring and decompressing. For the moment it looks like these pre-processing steps are repeated for each diagnostic (is this right). Grouping them would improve efficiency.
- In common_ocean_post.txt: Need to specify the dimensions of the input and output fields in the argument information.
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Name of the improvement	Start date estimation	Duration	Status

Nonstandard file names
Grouping diagnostics
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Updates (new version, migrations…)
- Update CDF (from 2.1 to 3.4.1) and CDO (from 1.4.5.1 to 1.6.1) tools to latest version
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Name of the update	Start date estimation	Duration	Status

Update CDF and CDO tools
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Remaining bugs to be corrected in the codes
- Not a bug, but a generalization to be made:

In common_ocean_post.txt the line: 828 cdo setgrid,t106grid tmp2out.nc tmp3out.nc does not invert the grid for the case NEMO_VERSION=Ec3.0_O25L46, now line 829 cdo invertlatdata tmp3out.nc $3 needs to be inside an “if” statement, or re-written.

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To keep track of the previously encountered bugs, once a error is corrected, the corresponding error log is archived on this page.