[develop] Bug fix to support the %H format in METplus via printf.

[gsketefian]

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:

This bug was encountered when verifying forecast output that has a 2-digit forecast hour in its name. It turns out specifying the METplus format %H to obtain a 2-digit forecast hour in the workflow/verification configuration variable FCST_FN_TEMPLATE (and others) causes an error in the shell script eval_METplus_timestr_tmpl.sh because bash's printf utility does not support the %H format. This fixes that error using a similar approach to the %HHH format for obtaining 3-digit hours.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

TESTS CONDUCTED:

• hera.intel
• orion.intel
• hercules.intel
• cheyenne.intel
• cheyenne.gnu
• derecho.intel
• gaea.intel
• gaeac5.intel
• jet.intel
• wcoss2.intel
• NOAA Cloud (indicate which platform)
• Jenkins
• fundamental test suite
• comprehensive tests (specify which if a subset was used)

The full set of WE2E tests involving vx were run on Hera. These are:

MET_ensemble_verification
MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx
MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx_time_lag
MET_ensemble_verification_winter_wx
MET_verification
MET_verification_only_vx
MET_verification_winter_wx

All passed.

DEPENDENCIES:

None needed.

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• My changes generate no new warnings
• New and existing tests pass with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published

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• Needs Cheyenne test
• Needs Jet test
• Needs Hera test
• Needs Orion test
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CONTRIBUTORS (optional):

@willmayfield and @michelleharrold encountered this bug, and @mkavulich pinpointed the script it was originating from.

[gsketefian]

@MichaelLueken I am running the vx WE2E tests on this now.

[gsketefian]

@MichaelLueken All the WE2E vx tests passed, and I noted that in the PR message. Thanks.

[MichaelLueken]

@gsketefian -

These changes look good to me! I ran the non-HPSS verification WE2E tests on Hercules and all tests successfully passed:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Experiment name                                                  | Status    | Core hours used 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx_20240710074823                   COMPLETE               1.97
MET_ensemble_verification_winter_wx_20240710074826                 COMPLETE             153.22
MET_verification_only_vx_20240710074828                            COMPLETE               0.59
MET_verification_20240710074830                                    COMPLETE              14.11
MET_ensemble_verification_2024071007483                            COMPLETE              29.84
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                              COMPLETE             199.73

and the HPSS verification WE2E tests successfully passed on Hera:

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Experiment name                                                  | Status    | Core hours used 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MET_ensemble_verification_only_vx_time_lag_20240710153519          COMPLETE               3.57
MET_verification_winter_wx_20240710153521                          COMPLETE              17.14
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Total                                                              COMPLETE              20.71

Approving now.

[MichaelLueken]

The Jenkins WE2E coverage tests successfully passed on all machines, with the exception of Jet, where the testing phase was aborted for running longer than 8 hours. Before the tests were aborted, there were two failures - custom_ESGgrid and custom_ESGgrid_Great_Lakes_snow_8km.

Both failures appear to be due to Slurm/Node issues on the machine.

Tasks being allocated nodes and hanging until the walltime has passed:

slurmstepd: error: *** STEP 6229197.0 ON x625 CANCELLED AT 2024-07-11T04:00:24 DUE TO TIME LIMIT ***
slurmstepd: error: *** JOB 6229197 ON x625 CANCELLED AT 2024-07-11T04:00:24 DUE TO TIME LIMIT ***

Tasks not launching properly:

srun: error: timeout waiting for task launch, started 96 of 108 tasks
srun: StepId=6229110.0 aborted before step completely launched.
srun: Job step aborted: Waiting up to 32 seconds for job step to finish.
slurmstepd: error: *** STEP 6229110.0 ON x3 CANCELLED AT 2024-07-11T05:22:07 ***

Manual running of the WE2E coverage tests were also launched on Jet yesterday. There are no time-outs for test stages while manually running, so the tests ran through to completion. Three tests ultimately failed with the above errors. Once resubmission of the failed tests successfully pass, this PR will be merged.

[gsketefian]

@MichaelLueken Thanks for the update.

[MichaelLueken]

The manual runs of the WE2E coverage tests successfully passed on Jet:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Experiment name                                                  | Status    | Core hours used
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
community_20240710185903                                           COMPLETE              17.92
custom_ESGgrid_20240710185904                                      COMPLETE             155.97
custom_ESGgrid_Great_Lakes_snow_8km_20240710185905                 COMPLETE              22.16
custom_GFDLgrid_20240710185907                                     COMPLETE               9.95
get_from_HPSS_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_fmt_nemsio_2021032018_202407  COMPLETE               9.29
get_from_HPSS_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_fmt_netcdf_2022060112_48h_20  COMPLETE              87.54
get_from_HPSS_ics_RAP_lbcs_RAP_20240710185909                      COMPLETE              16.11
grid_RRFS_AK_3km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_HRRR_20240710185910  COMPLETE             615.42
grid_RRFS_CONUS_13km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v16_plot_20  COMPLETE              64.71
grid_RRFS_CONUS_25km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_GFS_v15p2_20240  COMPLETE               6.93
grid_RRFS_CONUS_3km_ics_FV3GFS_lbcs_FV3GFS_suite_RRFS_v1beta_2024  COMPLETE             930.56
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Total                                                              COMPLETE            1936.56

Moving forward with merging this work now.