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-**How to perturbate ocean restarts**
+**How to perturb ocean restarts**
 When a problem of numerical instability occurs causing a crash of the model perturbation of the restarts can be useful. Here are presented the steps to follow to perturb ocean restarts.
 The script generates an arbitrary number of NEMO oceanic restarts that are copies of a reference, plus a perturbation.
+How to perturb ocean restart:
+This script has been tested on MN3 Nord3 and Ecmwf
+- In order to perturb the restarts you need the script:
+**gener_pertubation.bash**, available in GitLab under CPG tool project (https://earth.bsc.es/gitlab/es/cpg_tools/tree/PerturbRestart/prep_restarts)
+-As practical example: consider that your chunk n3 failed for an instability problem, you have to perturb the restarts of the chunk n2. You can decide how many restarts you want to perturb, just   one, of all of them. Normally you have many restarts as the number of processors you are using in NEMO.
+Go to  your run directory, make a backup of the restart folder you want to perturb, just in case (with EC-Earth 3.2.2 the path is something like EXP_ID_/STARTDATE/fc#/runtime/NEMO_restart_#. Please note that with different version of EC-Earth, the path can be slightly different) and run gener_pertubation.bash specifying the name of the restarts and the n of restarts to perturb.
+For example:
+<code> gener_pertubation.bash a0aj_00019536_restart_oce_000.nc 3 </code>
+It will automatically generate 3 perturbed restarts. Change the names of these new restarts to the original names (or just create a symbolic link)  and run your experiment from the last chuck that failed.
+You may want to perturb all the restarts you have and to do so you need do loop over all the restarts, perturb then and change the names to the original ones.
+Just as example, here there is simple loop script that does the job:
+<code>#!/bin/bash
+# Loop on all the nemo ocean restart files
+nfiles=960
+for num in `seq 0 $(( $nfiles -1 ))` ; do
+  num3=$(printf "%03d" $num)
+  file=a0bb_00078912_restart_oce_0${num3}.nc
+  echo $file
+  ./gener_perturbation.bash $file 1
+ mv a0bb_00078912_restart_oce_0${num3}_fc0.nc $file
+done </code>
+=== Possible numerical instability errors ===
+In this session are collecting the error messages that can be found when a numerical instability is present. When these errors are present the perturbation of the restarts can solve the problem.
+For further information  ask  any of the CP members or write to vsicardi@bsc.es
-To be completed

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