[MITgcm-devel] Problems with diagnostics package and mnc

[Baylor Fox-Kemper]

My opinion:

   T should contain myTime, but Chris is right that the specification of 
the field should determine time.  For example, if you are storing an 
average, you might want to use the midpoint of the interval instead of 
the last time...
   Another variable called iter(T) would be useful sometimes, e.g. 
combining files, and wouldn't require much additional storage.
   Cheers,
     -Baylor


On Dec 29, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Ed Hill wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 13:29 -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>>   I don't think that makes sense.
>>   A user writing a field needs to indicate the time associated with 
>> that
>> field. MNC, at the lowest levels, shouldn't need to know what time the
>> model is at, just what time the field has/wants.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> OK, that makes sense.
>
> So now the questions I have are:
>
>  1) What should the "T" coordinate variable contain --
>     "myIter" or "myTime" ?
>
>  2) If the answer to (1) is "myTime", then should we
>     have a separate "iter(T)" variable that keeps track of
>     the iteration number?
>
> Ed
>
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