[RegCNET] Bug in the interactive lake model

[bixq]

Dear all:

Thank you for finding the bug !

I am working on the lake model now and hopefully we could find the 
solution and make it work by next Monday (Sep.27) in RegCM-4.0.

Regards,
Xunqiang Bi

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Michael Notaro wrote:

> To the RegCM3 developers,
>
> It seems that the interactive lake module doesn't work
> correctly in either serial or parallel mode.  In both
> cases, the precipitation values become zero in the lake subroutines
> and there is no snow on ice given the lack of precipitation.
> Could you developers of the model please comment on the problems
> of the lake module and how to resolve these issues?  To my
> understanding, these issues continue not just in version 3 but
> were not resolved in version 4 either.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> On 09/19/10, Taha Al Hosary  <TAlHosary at ncms.ae> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> When I ran the RegCM model I found that the results of precipitation amount changes in whole by beginning of period. What is the most appropriate start for good predict for the rainfall?
>> Best Regards,
>> Taha
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: regcnet-bounces at lists.ictp.it [mailto:regcnet-bounces at lists.ictp.it](javascript:main.compose() On Behalf Of Azar Zarrin
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:32 PM
>> To: Regcnet at lists.ictp.it
>> Subject: [RegCNET] Bug in the interactive lake model
>>
>> Dear RegCM developers,
>>
>> I'm running RegCM model coupled with Hostetler lake model for a cold 
>> time period that ice and snow would be present over the lakes. I'm 
>> getting the reasonable values for ice, temperature and evaporation 
>> over the lakes, but the snow values are always zero.
>> I've checked the lake.F and ice.F routines. The precip values which I 
>> have printed from Ice. F are zero, while there are big amount of 
>> precip and hence snow values outputted from the atmospheric model in 
>> the SRF field. It seems that the precip isn't being passed into the 
>> ice routine from the BATS and atmospheric model.
>>
>> Would you please verify this bug and let me know how to solve this 
>> error.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Azar
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Azar Zarrin
>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>> Center for Climatic Research
>> University of Wisconsin-Madison
>> 1225 West Dayton Street, Room 1152
>> Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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