The ‘physics_input_table’ contains a list of all your physics input fields. This includes all the geophysical fields (GEOP), fields to be read from the initial condition file (ANAL), fields read from the climatological file specified in ‘GEM_climato‘ (CLIM) as well as fields to be read from the analyzed climatological file, ‘GEM_anclima’, like ‘TM’ and ‘LG’ (INREP).

There is one row per field to be read. Each row can contain several key specifying which field exactly should get red. These keys need to be separated from one another by a ';'. The following keys can be used:

KeyDescription
inVariable name as found in file (mandatory)
in2For vector fields, name of second component as found in file
freqFrequency at which field will be read (default 0)
Accepted format: TYPE,first,interval,last
    TYPE : STEP,MONTH,HOUR,MINUTE (optional, default=STEP)
    first : start reading from "first", in units of TYPE (mandatory)
    interval : read every interval (optional, default=0, inital). Put 1 for fields that should get read whenever they are found.
    last : read up to "last", in units of TYPE (optional, default=-1 infinite)
search

List of files from which to read the field. If more than one file is given, the list of files is to be separated by commas.The model will search in the files for the field (starting with the first), until the field got found. Accepted values are:
     GEOP, CLIM, ANAL, INREP,
     MANAL, MINREP, MINPUT  (from GEM 4.8 onward)

File names are specified in 'configexp.cfg'.
     'ANAL'  → field will get read from analysis file specified in 'GEM_anal'
      'GEOP'  → field will get read from geophy file specified in 'GEM_geophy'
      'CLIM'   →  field will get read from climatology file specified in 'GEM_climato'
      'MINREP' →  field will get read from 'GEM_anclima' (SST & sea ice) or 'CLIMAT_nest_rept'/'CLIMAT_nest_exp' (lateral BCs). Files from both parameters get copied into a directory called 'INREP' by the model scripts.

Interphorizontal interpolation type. Options: linear, near, cubic 
levelswhich levels should get read
timeintlinear, step, any, near













Examples:

    in=VF;   freq=0;   search=GEOP;       interp=near;   levels= 1,26;
    in=SD;   freq=0;   search=ANAL;       interp=near;   levels= 1,7;
    in=TM;   freq=0,1; search=ANAL,INREP; interp=linear; timeint=near
    in=LG;   freq=0,1; search=ANAL,INREP; interp=near;   timeint=near