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Comparing the nemo namelists

Here I will report on the differences between the namelists and then we can discuss what to do. cc: @kkeller @nrocha


1. Comparing IR with Development Resolution

I compared experiment/control-30y-1990-intermediate-configuration with experiment/control-30y-1990-development-configuration. The relevant differences that I found are:

namelist key IR dev
namsbc
ln_ssr .false. .true.
namlbc
ln_shlat2d .false. .true.
namtra_ldf
rn_Ud 0.011 0.027
namdyn_ldf
rn_Uv 0.0838 0.1895

rn_Ud and rn_Uv are scale dependent parameters so it makes sense they are different. The other differences that I didn't list here are all related to differences in the forcing files and run parameters like the timestep. We will need to change the ln_ssr for the dev resolution and we need to discuss what to do with shlat2d. IR-DEV_namelist_cfg_diff.xlsx

2. Comparing debug with development resolution

I compared experiment/control-30y-1990-debug-configuration with experiment/control-30y-1990-development-configuration. There are way too many differences in the namelist to list them here. I also don't know which of the differences are relevant at all. So, I've attached the xls file with all the differences. LR-DEV_namelist_cfg_diff.xlsx

3. Comparing coupled namelist with ocean only namelist for eORCA12

I compared experiment/ocean-spinup-nemo-2020-eorca12-5y with experiment/control-30y-1990-development-configuration.

namelist key IR dev
namsbc
ln_blk .true. .false.
ln_ssr .false. .true.
ln_wave .false. .true.
ln_sdw .false. .true.
ln_tauw .false. .true.
ln_stcor .false. .true.

The only differences seem to be in the surface boundary condition module. That is expected. OceOnly-Coupled_eO12_namelist_cfg_diff.xlsx

4. Comparing the eORCA12 and eORCA025 ocean only namelists.

I compared experiment/ocean-spinup-nemo-2020-eorca12-5y with experiment/ocean-spinup-nemo-1990-eorca025-5y. The differences are the same as for the coupled model.

PS: I used my compare_namelist tool from the experiment-scripts repo to compare the namelists.

Edited by Ingo Wagner