CCPP Framework Meeting Minutes 2020 04 02

Agenda

• Discussion with NRL team
• Proposal Add suite keyword to suite definition file? https://github.com/NCAR/ccpp-framework/issues/275

"Tour de cap_gen.py"

• introduction of a post-analysis database dump
  • database contains a lot of information about the run
  • from the command line, via a Python interface, or via a new inspection routine
• what is needed to transition GFS physics to cap_gen.py
  • handle blocked data structures for the different stages (init, run, ...)
  • GFS data types
  • stricter requirements in cap_gen.py (order of arguments, compare Fortran code and metadata, horizontal_dimension versus horizontal_loop_extent)
• additional features to be developed in the near future
  • advanced diagnostics (accumulating, averaging, ...)
• CCPP physics schemes are usable by both ccpp_prebuild.py and cap_gen.py as-is (but cap_gen.py is stricter checking for the requirements, see above)