CCPP Framework Meeting Minutes 2020 01 23

• Progress towards unit testing coverage of cap_gen.py code (branch feature/cap_gen)

• Reschedule meeting to 9am after the UFS public release date?

  • Dom to confirm with UFS release leads and decide

• Recap of the Jan 9 discussion of having separate _init and _restart/_reinit phases?

  • Update the issue handling restart logic, need to work out logic to hande coldstart and restart inits as separate phases
  • https://github.com/NCAR/ccpp-framework/issues/250

• Transition to cap_gen.py

  • Split the transition into (a) build and (b) use of new autogenerated code
  • Grant working on removing GFS_typedefs.f90 from interstitial schemes
    • this could be completed after the transition in an effort to make it more portable)
  • Some interstitial code can be moved into the new _timestep_init and _timestep_final routines
    • this could be completed after the transition in an effort to make it more portable)
  • Check metadata for consistency:
    • horizontal_dimension in _init and _final, horizontal_loop_extent in _run
    • cap_gen.py will recognize the existing _finalize routines
    • metadata parser and Fortran syntax parser to fix all the inconsistencies between them

• Other issues:

  • How to compute data from other variables where the calculation depends on the host model? For example, the calculation of geopotential height depends on the vertical coordinate of the dycore (Lagrangian, ...)