CAM simulations on Yellowstone using Bluefire restart files

[chillwx@gmail_com]

I began a large number of ensembles with CAM5+prescribed SST on Bluefire and now I need to restart them on Yellowstone. After getting all the restart files from HPSS, I noticed a problem with the data ocean restart file, which is a binary file. Basically, the problem is that the restart file has saved Bluefire's directory paths and wants to look for the SST file in the wrong directory.

Since it's a binary file, it's very time consuming to edit manually. Does anyone have suggestions on how to update the directories in the data ocn restart file?

 

[tcraig]

The binary restart file are associated with stored information for the input stream.
Saving this data allows the model to reinitialize faster but it is not required. The
easiest thing to do is to remove the "data model" binary restart files from your run
directory and resubmit. If the files do not exist, the model will read the stream
information from scratch.

Depending on the version of CESM you're using, some code mods might be needed
to make this work properly. In particular, the data ocean model might require a
binary restart file if the coupler says it's running in restart mode. If that happens, the
data ocean model should be modified to ignore the restart file if it doesn't exist. We
have updated how this works in more recent CESM versions, so it's not so inflexible.