In the framework of SPECS, experiments have to be CMORized and uploaded to the common repository in BADC (http://www.specs-fp7.eu/wiki/index.php/Data#CMORisation). So it is essential for users (responsible for running SPECS experiments) to follow the instructions given below as far as preparing the CMORized output of their experiments is concerned where users have two options either prepare the CMORized output offline or online (with respect to Autosubmit framework). But it is mandatory to choose either specs-daily-ocean (for ORCA1) or specs (for ORCA025) outclass first.

This option is recommended in only a few cases: essentially if user is running on a new machine on which the CMORization package has not been deployed and tested (currently the package is available at ARCHER and MareNostrum3). As far as running the offline CMORization is concerned; it means the Autosubmit is not doing anything and user will have to do it “manually” with the specific set of output stored locally at IC3.

As far as ocean output is concerned the offline CMORization package could deal with stored MMO files but in the context of atmospheric output user require to make sure that the following reduced set of output is well prepared and downloaded at IC3 at /cfunas/exp/ecearth/gribfiles.

So, user must require to activate the following parameters into expdef.conf in order to proceed with offline option:

#Save daily output or not [Default: Do set "FALSE"]. BOOLEAN = TRUE,  FALSE
SAVEDDA = TRUE
#Save reduced daily output or not [Default: Do set "FALSE"]. BOOLEAN = TRUE, FALSE
ATM_REDUCED_OUTPUT = TRUE
#Store grib codes from SH files [User need to refer defined  ppt* files for the experiment]
ATM_SH_CODES = 129.128 130.128
#Store levels against "ATM_SH_CODES" e.g: level1,level2,level3, ...
ATM_SH_LEVELS = 85000,50000,20000,5000
#Store grib codes from GG files [User need to refer defined  ppt* files for the experiment]
ATM_GG_CODES = 39.128 40.128 41.128 42.128 133.128 141.128 142.128 143.128 146.128 147.128 151.128 164.128 165.128 166.128 167.128 168.128 169.128 174.128 175.128 176.128 177.128 179.128 182.168 201.128 202.128 243.128
#Store levels against "ATM_GG_CODES" (133.128, 246.128, 247.128, 248.128) e.g: level1,level2,level3, ...
ATM_GG_LEVELS = 50000

As in case of offline CMORization; Autosubmit won't be involved in the process, the CMORization parameters in expdef.conf are mandatory to be left blank:

#Activate cmorization [Default: leave empty]. STRING = specs2cmor-1.0
CMORIZATION = 
#Essential if cmorization is activated. STRING =  (http://www.specs-fp7.eu/wiki/images/1/1c/SPECS_standard_output.pdf)
CMORFAMILY = 
#Essential if cmorization is activated. STRING = series1, series2 etc
CMORFAMILYSERIES = 
#Forcing                      
FORCING = 
#Initialization description                                               
INIT_DESCR =  
#Physics description                  
PHYS_DESCR = 
#Associated model                                                  
ASSOC_MODEL =

This should be the default one: the CMORization is performed automatically through Autosubmit during the “post” after each chunk of simulation and the output will be stored locally. So, for activating the online CMORization, user require to fill in the following parameters in expdef.conf at least:

#Activate cmorization [Default: leave empty]. STRING = specs2cmor-1.0
CMORIZATION = specs2cmor-1.0
#Essential if cmorization is activated. STRING =  (must belong to the  list described in http://www.specs-fp7.eu/wiki/images/1/1c/SPECS_standard_output.pdf)
CMORFAMILY = 
#Essential if cmorization is activated. STRING = series1, series2 etc.
CMORFAMILYSERIES =
#Forcing
FORCING =
#Initialization description
INIT_DESCR =
#Physics description
PHYS_DESCR =
#Associated model
ASSOC_MODEL =

All these parameters are fully described in the SPECS conventions document available on the SPECS wiki (http://www.specs-fp7.eu/wiki/index.php/File:SPECS_standard_output.pdf)

Here a table could be prepared for SPECS experiments with expid, status (either CMORization is ready or not), quality checked or not and transferred to BADC or not etc etc.

pierre-antoine.bretonniere@ic3.cat