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titleExercise

Change to the experiment directory labelled by the date chosen:

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cd scratch/ENFO/2013102400/       #  your date may be different

There are two experiment directories: cf000 and pf001. cf000 is for the control forecast which is not used here. pf001 is the single perturbation forecast.

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cd pf001
ls

Understand what the different files in the experiment directory are for.

ICM* : these are the initial starting files. ICMGG* are the initial gridpoint files, ICMSH* are the initial spectral fields.

Use the 'grib_ls' command to examine the initial files:

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grib_ls ICMGGgc1dINIT
grib_ls ICMSHgc1dINIT

The file: namelistfc is the model 'NAMELIST'. It contains a list of variable settings or 'switches' that control what the model does. These variables are grouped into separate fortran namelists.

Creating the OpenIFS

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namelist

Set the ensemble member

In IFS, each ensemble member uses the stochastic physics schemes to generate uncertainty. A random number 'seed' is used by the stochastic scheme to generate a different forecast. This random number seed is changed by altering the ensemble member value in the model's namelist. Each ensemble member must have a unique number and therefore random number seed, in order to produce a different forecast.

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Make a copy of the namelist file and edit it to set the ensemble member value to the one you are given.

Make sure you are in the 'pf001' directory.

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cp namelistfc mynamelist

vi mynamelist        # or use your favourite text editor; emacs etc.

and make the following changes to the namelist variables:

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CTYPE="pf",   ! change the type of forecast to perturbed

NENSFNB=2,    ! change the ensemble member number to your assigned value. 

LSTOPH_SPBS=true,  ! this enables the stochastic backscatter scheme in the model dynamics

LSPSDT=true,       ! this enables the stochastic scheme for the physics tendencies

The variable NENSFNB is important as this determines the random number seed by altering the ensemble member value.

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diff mynamelist namelistfc

Create and submit Cray batch job

The next steps are to create and submit a batch job to run on the ECMWF Cray XC30 system.

To create the batch job, use the oifs_run command.

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oifs_run -e exptid [-m path-to-master.exe] [-r resolution] [-l namelist] [-s timestep] [-n nproc] [-f fcast len] [-x run number] [-q]

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 Use the oifs_run command to create the job

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. You need to give a value to the '-e' and '-l' options. The '-l' option is the name of the namelist file you edited above.

The command will create a create a file 'job1'.

Submit this job:

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qsub job1

Check the job status:

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qstatu

 

 

Submit job: qsub jobN

Checking job status: qstatu