1 An example of a simple namcouple

The following simple namcouple configures a run into which e.g. an ocean, an atmosphere and an atmospheric chemistry components are coupled. The ocean running on grid toce provides only the SOSSTSST field to the atmosphere (grid atmo), which in return provides the field CONSFTOT to the ocean. One field COSENHFL is exchanged from the atmosphere to the atmospheric chemistry (also running on grid atmo), and one field SOALBEDO is read from a file by the ocean.

########## First section #############################################
 $NFIELDS
    4
#
 $RUNTIME
    432000
#
 $NLOGPRT
   2     1    0
#
 $NCDFTYP
   cdf1
#
 $NUNITNO
   901     920
#
 $NMAPDEC
   decomp_wghtfile
#
 $NMATXRD
   ceg
#
 $NWGTOPT
   ignore_bad_index
#
 $SEQMODE
 $CHANNEL
 $JOBNAME
 $NBMODEL
 $INIDATE
 $MODINFO
 $CALTYPE
#
########## Second section #############################################
#
 $STRINGS
#
# Field 1
 SOSSTSST SISUTESU 1 86400  5  sstoc.nc  EXPOUT
 182  149  128  64  toce  atmo   LAG=+14400  SEQ=+1
 P 2 P 0
 LOCTRANS CHECKIN MAPPING  BLASNEW CHECKOUT
#
  AVERAGE
  INT=1
  map_toce_atmo_120315.nc src opt
  1.0  1
  CONSTANT     273.15
  INT=1
#
# Field 2
 CONSFTOT SOHEFLDO 6 86400  4   flxat.nc  EXPORTED
 atmo   toce  LAG=+14400  SEQ=+2
 P 0 P 2
 LOCTRANS  CHECKIN  SCRIPR CHECKOUT
#
  ACCUMUL
  INT=1
  BILINEAR LR SCALAR LATLON 1
  INT=1
#
# Field 3
 CONSFTOT  CONSFTOT 1  86400   1  flda3.nc  OUTPUT
 128  64  128  64 atmo   atmo 
 LOCTRANS
 AVERAGE
#
# Field 4
 SOALBEDO SOALBEDO  17  86400  0  SOALBEDO.nc  INPUT