id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
720	Correction to wpoints.F and the WRITE_WATER option with rivers	arango	arango	"The routine '''wpoints.F''' was updated to use the '''pmask_full''', '''rmask_full''', '''umask_full''' and '''vmask_full''' instead of the regular mask arrays ('''pmask''', '''rmask''', '''umask''', and '''vmask'''). The '''_full''' arrays are used to ensure that masks at mass point source locations (river runoff) are set to water to avoid masking with '''_FillValue''' at those locations in output NetCDF files.

Recall that the '''WRITE_WATER''' option is used in ROMS to write output fields as a long vector (compact 1D array). The masked land points are not written to compress the size of output NetCDF files.  I have not used this option in several years because it is not CF compliant and such ROMS output NetCDF cannot post-processed with third-party software.

Recall that the '''WRITE_WATER''' option cannot be used in conjuntion with wetting and drying '''WET_DRY''' because the 1D arrays witl change in size and violates the defined compact dimensions in the output NetCDF files.

Many thanks to David Ullman for [https://www.myroms.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4290 bringing] this to my attention."	bug	closed	major	Release ROMS/TOMS 3.7	Nonlinear	3.7	Fixed