Can't handle interpolating from a fates restart file because of the cohort dimension

[ekluzek]

You can't run use_init_interp=.true. on a fates restart file, because it doesn't know what to do with the cohort dimension, which is on over a dozen variables in the restart file from a simulation with fates.

This is what the error looks like when you try to do that:

Interpolating: fates_to_bgc_last_edts_col => fates_to_bgc_last_edts_col
Interpolating: fates_seed_rain_flux_site => fates_seed_rain_flux_site
Interpolating: fates_trunk_product_site => fates_trunk_product_site
ENDRUN:get_beg ERROR: Unknown subgrid level: cohortERROR in /glade/p/work/erik/clm_fates/components/clm/src/init_interp/initInterpBounds.F90 at line 159

[billsacks]

See also #76 for some more fundamental problems with using init_interp with FATES

[samsrabin]

Closing as duplicate of #76.

[billsacks]

If you find it easier to track this as part of #76 that's fine, but I wanted to point out that this is really a separate issue from #76. This issue is a very specific one related to the cohort dimension, which should be relatively easy to resolve. #76 (if I remember correctly) is a more fundamental issue that could take some more thought and rework. Both prevent correct operation of init_interp with FATES, but for different reasons.

[samsrabin]

Fair enough! Reopening.