Open j-a-foster opened 1 month ago
So at present the way to include an IP or OP tag is to fill in the relevant field in each individual output statement.
The ITV tags are added automatically.
Once we have a master file of all variables with their short descriptions, long descriptions etc, it will be a straightforward if lengthy job to add the IP and OP tags for those variables where these are fixed. Some variables can be input or output depending the values of the switches - tags for these variables will have to be added in the code.
There is an inconsistency in how variables are reported in the OUT.DAT and MFILE.DAT output files. Some variables are identified as iteration variables (ITV), inputs (IP), or outputs (OP). However, a lot of variables are not identified by any of these, some are inputs and some are outputs. It would be good if all variables in the output files are identified by what type of these variables they are.
I appreciate this might not be feasible as some variables might be inputs in one case, and outputs in another, but it would provide more clarity to what is actually being calculated in a PROCESS run.