Error outputting to non existent CICE file

[helen (Helen Macdonald)]

This is splitting a discussion off from this thread
When running in mom-only mode, @Paul.Gregory and a few other’s are getting this error:

@Paul.Gregory

Ok I’ve got @mmr0 's config up and running now. It seems to make progress and actually run because the following directory now exists:

/scratch/gb02/pag548/access-om3/archive/access-rom3-MR/output000/

However the run fails after a few minutes with

ls: cannot access 'archive/output000/access-om3.cice.r.*': No such file or directory
cal: unknown month name: om3.cice*.????

These grids are specified in config.yaml

    - /g/data/vk83/configurations/inputs/access-om3/cice/grids/global.1deg/2024.05.14/grid.nc
    - /g/data/vk83/configurations/inputs/access-om3/cice/grids/global.1deg/2024.05.14/kmt.nc
    - /g/data/vk83/configurations/inputs/access-om3/cice/initial_conditions/global.1deg/2023.07.28/iced.1900-01-01-10800.nc

In an earlier global MOM6 run (1deg_jra55do_ryf) the following files exist in /scratch/gb02/pag548/access-om3/archive/1deg_jra55do_ryf/output000/

access-om3.cice.1900-01.nc
access-om3.cicem.1900-01.nc

I tried to copy them into

/scratch/gb02/pag548/access-om3/archive/access-rom3-MR/output000/

But I generate the same error.

replys to this are:

@helen

Hi @Paul.Gregory
This is sounding promising. Are there netcdf files related to MOM in the output000 folder?

Thanks for bringing this error up as a few people have received this error – it hasn’t been fatal for the model run but it is something we should look into.

We are not running CICE – so the call to CICE outputs shouldn’t be happening – but as we are the first people trying to run without CICE I am wondering if there is something in the workflow that is hardwired to include CICE? @Aidan or @anton might know more – and if it is in the realm of something we can fix in our configurations or whether I should raise this one somewhere?

Note that Monday is a public holiday in Canberra so responses may be delayed.

@Paul.Gregory

Ok that’s a good reminder. I’ll double check the inputs to ensure all cice related processes aren’t active.

@dougiesquire

@Paul.Gregory

However the run fails after a few minutes with

ls: cannot access 'archive/output000/access-om3.cice.r.*': No such file or directory
cal: unknown month name: om3.cice*

Regarding the CICE error, I suspect the Payu configuration still includes running a userscript after the model completes to postprocess CICE output. But because you have no CICE output, this fails. Again this is easy to fix and I can provide more detail on Tuesday.

@Aidan

I’d need to look into the cice issue, but @anton may have some idea.

@Aidan @Paul.Gregory @anton @dougiesquire @mmr0