Update the configuration file for generating experiments in NCO mode …

…on a coarse conus grid. Still need resolving of certain inconsistencies between EMC and community workflow to get the NCO-mode test to work (currently fails at the beginning of the forecast task due to inconsistency in ozone physics).

ush/config.nco.sh

@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ VERBOSE="TRUE"
 RUN_ENVIR="nco"
 PREEXISTING_DIR_METHOD="rename"
 
-EMC_GRID_NAME="conus"  # For now, this is maps to PREDEF_GRID_NAME="EMC_CONUS_coarse".
+EMC_GRID_NAME="conus_c96"  # For now, this is maps to PREDEF_GRID_NAME="EMC_CONUS_coarse".
 GRID_GEN_METHOD="GFDLgrid"
+
 QUILTING="TRUE"
 USE_CCPP="TRUE"
 CCPP_PHYS_SUITE="FV3_GFS_2017_gfdlmp"
@@ -26,12 +27,32 @@ CYCL_HRS=( "18" )
 EXTRN_MDL_NAME_ICS="FV3GFS"
 EXTRN_MDL_NAME_LBCS="FV3GFS"
 
+#
+# In NCO mode, the following don't need to be explicitly set to "FALSE" 
+# in this configuration file because the experiment generation script
+# will do this (along with printing out an informational message).
+#
 #RUN_TASK_MAKE_GRID="FALSE"
 #RUN_TASK_MAKE_OROG="FALSE"
 #RUN_TASK_MAKE_SFC_CLIMO="FALSE"
 
 RUN="an_experiment"
-COMINgfs="/scratch1/NCEPDEV/hwrf/noscrub/hafs-input/COMGFS"  # Path to files from external model (FV3GFS).
-#STMP="/path/to/temporary/directory/stmp"  # Path to temporary directory STMP.
-STMP="/scratch2/BMC/det/Gerard.Ketefian/UFS_CAM/stmp"  # Path to temporary directory STMP.
+COMINgfs="/scratch1/NCEPDEV/hwrf/noscrub/hafs-input/COMGFS"     # Path to directory containing files from the external model (FV3GFS).
+STMP="/scratch2/BMC/det/Gerard.Ketefian/UFS_CAM/NCO_dirs/stmp"  # Path to directory STMP that mostly contains input files.
+PTMP="/scratch2/BMC/det/Gerard.Ketefian/UFS_CAM/NCO_dirs/ptmp"  # Path to directory PTMP in which the experiment's output files will be placed.
+
+#
+# In NCO mode, the user must manually (e.g. after doing the build step)
+# create the symlink "${FIXrrfs}/fix_sar" that points to EMC's FIXsar 
+# directory on the machine.  For example, on hera, the symlink's target
+# needs to be
+#
+#   /scratch2/NCEPDEV/fv3-cam/emc.campara/fix_fv3cam/fix_sar
+#
+# The experiment generation script will then set FIXsar to 
+#
+#   FIXsar="${FIXrrfs}/fix_sar/${EMC_GRID_NAME}"
+#
+# where EMC_GRID_NAME has the value set above.
+#