E3SM-Project
Make RRTMG++ use Scorpio for reading
YAKL uses C++-Netcdf to read in netcdf files, while the rest of SCREAM uses a Scorpio interface to C-Netcdf. It would be nice to have a single interface for all processes within everything in SCREAM. This is perhaps impossible, however, since the C++-Netcdf calls are part of an external submodule dependency. We'd like to apply pressure to YAKL devs to internally include the C++ to netcdf C interface it needs. Iulian says that CPL already developed a nice solution to this.
As of now, rrtmgp is still manually linking to netcdf, and manually using yakl's SimpleNetCDF data structure to handle reading in data in unit tests. So I think this issue still stands.
@jgfouca , with the switch to Kokkos will we move away from YAKLs SimpleNetCDF data structure? If so, will be able to call this issue done?
@AaronDonahue , we are currently using a Kokkos-ified version of SimpleNetCDF. We can move to something better at any time once Kokkos is default, but we have not done so yet.
