Testing the installation

If you downloaded and installed gfdlvitals from the source code, you can verify the installation using the built-in tests that are driven from a Makefile that is included in the testing directory.

In order to run the tests:

cd gfdlvitals/testing
make check

This command will download a tar file (~277 MB) that contains test model data from the pre-industrial control simulations from ESM2 and ESM4. The tests will generate the scalar diagnostics for each model and compare with reference values that are stored in the Git repository.

Note

Python-based unit tests are not yet available for this package but are planned for future development.