Inconsistent Environment Variable Setup for FIXprepobs and USHprepobs on Gaea

[spanNOAA]

What is wrong?

We have identified an inconsistency in the environment variable setup for FIXprepobs and USHprepobs between different systems.

In general, the environment variables are set as follows:

export FIXprepobs=${FIXprepobs:-$HOMEprepobs/fix} export USHprepobs=${USHprepobs:-$HOMEprepobs/ush}

On Hera, FIXprepobs is set to /scratch1/NCEPDEV/global/glopara/git/prepobs/dev-gfsv17/fix and USHprepobs is set to /scratch1/NCEPDEV/global/glopara/git/prepobs/dev-gfsv17/ush.

However, in Gaea, FIXprepobs is set to /fix and USHprepobs is set to /ush.

This indicates that HOMEprepobs is not correctly set up, leading to incorrect paths for FIXprepobs and USHprepobs.

What should have happened?

The environment variables on Gaea should be configured as follows:

HOMEprepobs should be set to /gpfs/f5/ufs-ard/world-shared/global/glopara/data/git/prepobs/dev-gfsv17 FIXprepobs should be set to /gpfs/f5/ufs-ard/world-shared/global/glopara/data/git/prepobs/dev-gfsv17/fix USHprepobs should be set to /gpfs/f5/ufs-ard/world-shared/global/glopara/data/git/prepobs/dev-gfsv17/ush

What machines are impacted?

All or N/A

Steps to reproduce

Clone, build, and install the global workflow. Run setup_expt.py and setup_xml.py. Continuously execute rocotorun using the configured XML file.

Additional information

All the environment variables related to HOMEprepobs are not correctly configured.

Do you have a proposed solution?

No response

[WalterKolczynski-NOAA]

I don't think Gaea is ready to run with cycling in general yet.

[guoqing-noaa]

I don't think Gaea is ready to run with cycling in general yet.

Thank @WalterKolczynski-NOAA for the information.

@AnilKumar-NOAA @DavidBurrows-NCO Do you have an estimate of when we may try cycling on Gaea? Thanks!