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Communication of module diagnostics is through the applicable published interface formats. The general adapter starts a task, and on completion reads the output of that task. There is no provision for intermediate communication.
Module run information
There are two approaches in the exchange of run-time information to the module. This includes for example when start date/time of the module run and the end date/time of the module run. The first approach is through the exchange of time series whereby the module adapter derives the run information from the time series identified as inputs. The run should then start at the first time step in that timeseries, which typically coincides with the date/time of the state, and the last time step in the timeseries.
In some cases the multiple time series may be used as input to the module, and if these are of differing lengths a driving timeseries is required to be defined in the adapter.
Another approach is to export additional information from FEWS. The general adapter can be configured to export a run information file, which includes the start and end date of the run, the forecast start time (time0), as well as an optional indication of the time until observed data is available (where this is different to the time0). The file also includes specification of all input and output files as defined, with the full path names, as well as a configurable amount of key value pairs (synonomous to command line arguments).