The following three features are enabled. And this Pull Request addresses Issues #49 #47 #48.
a. Add the capability to do lateral boundary condition blending for the
regional configuration. The related option is config.halo_blend (e.g., 10).
b. Enable using different vertical level configurations. The related options
are grid.LEVS, forecast.npz, config.vcoord_file_target_grid. Most likely, one
will need to use this feature together with the lateral boundary blending
feature for the regional configuration.
c. Enable using grib2 format GFS input files to generate model initial
condition. The related options are config.ictype (e.g., gfsgrib2ab_0p25). A
note is that, one will also need to change the forecast.nstf_n2 from 0 to 1,
which is to cold start the NSST component in the forecast model.
The following three features are enabled. And this Pull Request addresses Issues #49 #47 #48.
a. Add the capability to do lateral boundary condition blending for the regional configuration. The related option is config.halo_blend (e.g., 10).
b. Enable using different vertical level configurations. The related options are grid.LEVS, forecast.npz, config.vcoord_file_target_grid. Most likely, one will need to use this feature together with the lateral boundary blending feature for the regional configuration.
c. Enable using grib2 format GFS input files to generate model initial condition. The related options are config.ictype (e.g., gfsgrib2ab_0p25). A note is that, one will also need to change the forecast.nstf_n2 from 0 to 1, which is to cold start the NSST component in the forecast model.
Regression tests have passed on Hera.