Add regression testing for wave-sea ice coupling

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

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• Run the full RT suite (compared to current baselines) on either Hera/Derecho/Hercules AND have committed the log to my PR branch.
• Add list of all failed regression tests in "Regression Tests" section.

PR Information

Description

Add regression testing to exercise wave-sea ice coupling implemented in #1381 in coupled WW3 unstructured tests with inner-loop coupling (#1969).

A new CMake flag "WAVICE" compiles WW3 with a switch file that includes IC4. The existing wav_coupling_to_cice flag is set to true in the RT test cases. New default variables set CICE floe size distribution off by default and are modified in the RT test cases.

New input data is for WW3 and available on hera at /scratch1/NCEPDEV/climate/Jessica.Meixner/WW3_input_data_20240417:
ww3_grid.inp.ic4.exp.global_270k
mod_def.ic4.exp.global_270k
createmoddefs/creategridfiles.sh

New baselines only for tests now with -DWAVICE=ON

Commit Message

Add regression testing for wave-sea ice coupling implemented in #1381 (#1969)

Priority

• Critical Bugfix (This PR contains a critical bug fix and should be prioritized.)
• High (This PR contains a feature or fix needed for a time-sensitive project (eg, retrospectives, implementations))
• Normal

Blocking Dependencies

• Appendtail (called by w3fld1 and w3fld2) can get NaNs from variable "avg" NOAA-EMC/WW3#1159
• upcoming conflict with dev/ufs-weather-model branch, IC4 method=8 NOAA-EMC/WW3#1187
• FYI: Update of UFS will require wave IC updates NOAA-EMC/global-workflow#2571
• Improve numerical solution for waves in sea ice NOAA-EMC/WW3#738
• IC4M10: New Wave Attenuation Scheme NOAA-EMC/WW3#1293
• Updated Numerical Solution for Wave Attenuation in sea ice NOAA-EMC/WW3#1294

Git Issues Fixed By This PR

Closes #1969
Closes NOAA-EMC/WW3/issues/1187

Changes

Subcomponent (with links)

• AQM
• CDEPS
• CICE
• CMEPS
• CMakeModules
• FV3
• GOCART
• HYCOM
• MOM6
• NOAHMP
• WW3: Add switch_meshcap_pdlib_IC4 and change dev/ufs-weather-model IC4M8 to IC4M10 NOAA-EMC/WW3#1211
• stochastic_physics
• none

Input data

• No changes are expected to input data.
• Changes are expected to input data:
  • New input data.
  • Updated input data.

Regression Tests:

• No changes are expected to any regression test.
• Changes are expected to the following tests: cpld_control_pdlib_p8, cpld_debug_pdlib_p8, cpld_mpi_pdlib_p8, cpld_restart_pdlib_p8

FAILED REGRESSION TESTS

None

Libraries

• Not Needed
• Needed
  • Create separate issue in JCSDA/spack-stack asking for update to library. Include library name, library version.
  • Add issue link from JCSDA/spack-stack following this item

Testing Log:

• RDHPCS
  • Hera
  • Orion
  • Hercules
  • Jet
  • Gaea
  • Derecho
• WCOSS2
  • Dogwood/Cactus
  • Acorn
• CI
  • Completed
• opnReqTest
  • N/A
  • Log attached to comment

[DeniseWorthen]

@NickSzapiro-NOAA Please try my UFS branch https://github.com/DeniseWorthen/ufs-weather-model/tree/feature/flexwaveopts for building WW3 w/ or w/o IC4 and w/ or w/o PDLIB.

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

Thanks @DeniseWorthen! Looks good. I can confirm that the IC4+PDLIB combo builds and runs for me:
/scratch1/NCEPDEV/stmp2/Nick.Szapiro/FV3_RT/rt_207649/

A minor preference may be to change the flag WAVEICE-->WAVICE for consistent component shortnames throughout.

If it's worth adding a reminder somewhere, the input WW3 mod_def file needs the same switch flags...right?

[DeniseWorthen]

@NickSzapiro-NOAA Since this is a new feature test, we need to also verify it also passes all the ORT tests (debug, restart etc).

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

ORTs pass on Hera under $application == 'cpld' branch
ORT_wavice_hera.txt

[gspetro-NOAA]

@NickSzapiro-NOAA I see the "Blocked" label has been added. Do you have an estimate of if/when this PR will be ready? It seems like many (but not all) blocking dependencies have been resolved.

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

Hi @gspetro-NOAA. This is no longer blocked by WW3. My guess is that this will be ready in 1-2 months, since it has lower priority than GFS or GEFS related work