overflow

The overflow test group (compass.ocean.tests.overflow.Overflow) implements variants of the continental shelf overflow test case. Here, we describe the shared framework for this test group and the 2 test cases.

framework

The shared config options for the overflow test group are described in overflow in the User’s Guide.

Additionally, the test group has a shared namelist.forward file with a few common namelist options related to time step, run duration, viscosity, and drag, as well as a shared streams.forward file that defines mesh, input, and output streams.

initial_state

The class compass.ocean.tests.overflow.initial_state.InitialState defines a step for setting up the initial state for each test case.

First, a mesh appropriate for the resolution is generated using mpas_tools.planar_hex.make_planar_hex_mesh(). Then, the mesh is culled to remove periodicity in the y direction. The ocean model is then run in init mode to generate the vertical grid and populate initial conditions.

forward

The class compass.ocean.tests.overflow.forward.Forward defines a step for running MPAS-Ocean from the initial condition produced in the initial_state step. If nu is provided as an argument to the constructor, the associate namelist option (config_mom_del2) will be given this value. Namelist and streams files are also generated. MPAS-Ocean is run (including updating PIO namelist options and generating a graph partition) in run().

default

The compass.ocean.tests.overflow.default.Default test performs a 12-minute run on 4 cores. It doesn’t contain any Validation.

rpe_test

The compass.ocean.tests.overflow.rpe_test.RpeTest performs a longer (40 hour) integration of the model forward in time at 5 different values of the viscosity. These nu values are later added as arguments to the Forward steps’ constructors when they are added to the test case:

step = Forward(
    test_case=self, name=name, subdir=name, ntasks=4,
    openmp_threads=1, nu=float(nu))
...
self.add_step(step)

The analysis step defined by compass.ocean.tests.overflow.rpe_test.analysis.Analysis makes plots of the final results with each value of the viscosity.

This test is resource intensive enough that it is not used in regression testing.