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Posted by Anonymous at September 10 2014

Hi Laure,

We are right now working on a new EC-Earth version, which (among other things) couples atmospheric chemistry (TM5 model) and vegetation (LPJ-GUESS) processes. As you know we have introduced a new coupling interface in IFS that can handle multi-category and multi-level fields by giving them generic names like field.C003.L001.

On the OASIS side, these fields are "bundled" in the namcouple file. Now this leads to the question: How long are lines in the namcouple files allowed to be? Because, for multi-level fields you easily get *very* long lines. Note that the namcouple file is not edited by hand but generated automatically at run time, which takes care of the number of categories/levels for the fields.

Is the line length a problem?

Best regards, Uwe.

Posted by Anonymous at September 11 2014

Hi Uwe,

The maximal length of a line in the namcouple is 1000 characters for the moment (this will change with OASIS3-MCT_3.0 as it will become 5000 characters). 

Best regards, Laure

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