t_out and z_out not used

[f-baerenbold]

The lake calibrator writes the files t_out and z_out for the calibration runs. However, if there is no link to these files in the original .par file in the simulation folder, then they are not used during the calibration and the observations will not be compared to the corresponding model outputs. This happens if there are numerical values for "Depths" and "Times" in the original .par file for example.

The solution to this would be to make sure that the .par file has links to t_out and z_out irrespective of what is written in the original .par file.

[JamesRunnalls]

Could you send me an example case so I can understand better?

[f-baerenbold]

If the output section of the par file looks like the one below, then t_out and z_out will have no effect.

"Output": {
    "Path": "C:\\Users\\barenbfa\\git\\Simstrat-Operational\\Simulation\\LakeAegeri\\Results\\",
    "Depths": 2,
    "Times": 288",
    "OutputDepthReference": "surface",
    "All": false,
    "Variables": ["T" ]
},