[MITgcm-devel] negative diagnostics freq

Jean-Michel Campin jmc at ocean.mit.edu
Fri Apr 29 11:02:53 EDT 2005


Hi Dimitri,

> Well, I'll be damned.  It is actually coded so that freq=-20
> produces snapshot at timestep 10.  Why is that?  D.

Baylor had good arguments in favor of this ; I personally
think it's not a bad idea. It is also complementary
to the snapshot output (dumpFreq=20*dT => snapshot at it=0,20,...)
and, from my point of view, avoid the problem (iter 20 or 21 ?)
for state variables (T,S) with stagger-timestep.

Jean-Michel



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