Changing the diag table in ACCESS-CM2

Earth System Coupled Model
1

Hi,

I want to change the ocean diag table. As a first step, I copied the existing diag table from /g/data/access/access-cm2/input_O1/mom5_360x300/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814 to a local directory. I updated the path to the diag table in /app/coupled/rose-suite.conf and updated the storage flags in suite.rc.

When doing a test run (i.e. using the same diag table just from a different location) I get a bad or missing value error message. Does anyone have a suggestion what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks,
Wilma

2

Hi @wghuneke,

I’ve had a go repeating the same steps with the u-cy339 suite.
Specifically changing:

app/coupled/rose-app.conf

 [file:$OCN_RUNDIR/INPUT/diag_table]
-source=~access/access-cm2/input_O1/mom5_360x300/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814
+source=/g/data/lg87/sw6175/cm2-diagtable/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814

suite.rc

    [[NCI]]
...
-            -l storage = gdata/{{PROJECT}}+gdata/access+gdata/xp65+gdata/hr22+gdata/ki32
+            -l storage = gdata/{{PROJECT}}+gdata/access+gdata/xp65+gdata/hr22+gdata/ki32+gdata/lg87

This worked in a short 1 month run without crashing. Do these match the changes you made? Would you be able to copy the complete error message?

Thanks,
Spencer

3

Hi Spencer,

Thanks you for having a look into this.

I have the following storage flag in my suite.rc:
-l storage = gdata/x77+scratch/x77+gdata/access+gdata/xp65+gdata/p66+gdata/hr22+gdata/ki32+gdata/lg87

And my `app/coupled/rose-app.conf` looks like this:
[file:$OCN_RUNDIR/INPUT/diag_table]
#source=~access/access-cm2/input_O1/mom5_360x300/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814
source=/g/data/x77/wgh581/inputs/access-cm2/mom5_360x300/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814

This is the error message I get:

Using the cylc session localhost

Loading cylc7/23.09
Loading requirement: mosrs-setup/1.0.1

Package -----------------------------.- Versions --------.- Last mod. -------
Currently Loaded Modulefiles:
nco/5.0.5                                                   2022/02/01 00:26:36
ncview/2.1.7                                                2019/12/02 03:32:10
mosrs-setup/1.0.1                                           2023/03/31 02:19:50
cylc7/23.09                                                 2023/10/20 06:10:48
python2-as-python                                           2019/11/04 03:02:35
openmpi/4.0.2                                               2022/02/14 19:20:11
fcm/2019.09.0                                               2020/12/14 04:10:00
pythonlib/f90nml/1.0.2                                      2020/12/14 04:15:56
[WARN] file:/home/581/wgh581/cylc-run/u-dt651/work/09500101/coupled/ATM_RUNDIR/IDEALISE: skip missing optional source: namelist:idealise
[WARN] file:/home/581/wgh581/cylc-run/u-dt651/work/09500101/coupled/ATM_RUNDIR/STASHC: skip missing optional source: namelist:exclude_package(

[WARN] file:/home/581/wgh581/cylc-run/u-dt651/work/09500101/coupled/ATM_RUNDIR/RECONA: skip missing optional source: namelist:trans(

[FAIL] file:/home/581/wgh581/cylc-run/u-dt651/work/09500101/coupled/OCN_RUNDIR/INPUT/diag_table=source=/g/data/x77/wgh581/inputs/access-cm2/mom5_360x300/CMIP6_diagtable_as7904_20190814: bad or missing value
2025-11-17T05:30:28Z CRITICAL - failed/EXIT

Thanks,

Wilma

4

Argh, apologies. The path to the new location was wrong!

5

No worries, good to know that it is working!