Revision 5c205f938e59e3c85f06b2c4e151f71ce4233785 authored by Adiv Paradise on 17 October 2017, 20:26:20 UTC, committed by Adiv Paradise on 17 October 2017, 20:26:20 UTC
Added Kristen's tidal-locking hack, enabled with the nfixed flag in radmod_namelist and the fixedlon parameter (degrees).
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FAQ
There's now a forum for users of PUMA and Planet Simulator.
Feel free to post questions and comments there.
"http://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/Forum.5807.0.html"
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Q: The configure script tells that the command "make" was not found
or FORTRAN or other important things are missing.
A: Some Linux distributions do not install developer packages
in the default configuration. If your Linux software manager
offers developer packages, choose and install them.
You'll need at least (examples in parenthesis):
1. C-compiler (gcc)
2. C++ compiler (c++)
3. FORTRAN-90 compiler (gfortran)
4. make (make or gmake)
5. X11 include files (xorg-X11-devel)
6. tcsh
Optional you may install "OpenMPI" or "mpich 2.0" which are
necessary to run the models on multiple cores or CPU's,
e.g. to use both cores of a Core2Duo or AMD Opteron.
Q: After running "make" in the Most directory I get a lot of error
messages from the C compiler. The first messages is:
X11R6/Xlib.h: directory or file not found
A: The X11 include files, normally located in "/usr/include/X11R6"
are missing. You have to install the development X11 package.
Some Linux distributions install only X11 applications by
default. E.g. in SuSE Linux you must install the package
"xorg-X11-devel".
Q: After clicking "Save & Run" in the Most window the error message
"command not found" appears.
A: Make sure, that the current directory "." is in your PATH.
C shell users insert the line: set path=( . $path )
into the file ".cshrc" in the home directory.
Bourne shell users insert the line: export PATH=.:$PATH;
into the file ".profile" in the home directory.
Q: The model crashes with the message:
"invalid reference to variable in NAMELIST input ..."
A: You use a variable name in the namelist file, that is not
defined in the model. If you use old namelists containing
the variable "NRESTART", look at the file "RECENT_CHANGES".
Otherwise check for a typo.
Q: I made some changes in the source code and rerun the model
but the changes had no effect.
A: You must edit the files in the ../src/ directories of
puma or plasim to make permanent changes.
The sources in the ../bld directories are copied at the
time of building from the corresponding ../src directories.
The Most program maintains a cache of executables in the
directories ../bin. You must submit the command
"cleanpuma" or "cleanplasim" in the Most15 directory.
This will clear the cache, delete all files in the
../bld and ../run directories. After that Most will
create new binaries based on the contents of ../src.
Q: Wat can I do with the orography in MoST?
A: These fields are prepared for a graphical preprocessor, which is
currently under development. There is only one working test case
so far. If you use PUMA with 32 latitudes, you may mark a
rectangular arey with the mouse in the orography picture.
Then enter a value in the anomaly field in units of [gpm]
and click on preprocess. A new orography will be computed and
used in the following PUMA run. You'll not see any changes
after preprocessing (not yet implemented), but a following
GUI run should show your modifications clearly.
Q: How can I compile the postprocessor
A: Change to directory Most15/preprocessor.
Type "make -f make_suse" and hit Return.
The makefile in that directory will call the "C++" compiler
with the correct options and create the executable "burn5.x".
You'll need the "netcdf" library installed on your system.
Netcdf is available for free on
"http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/index.html"
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