[Mitgcm-support] Re: can you help me?

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

Hello Fabiana,

Thanks for your feedback.

Concerning the output:
When using the rigid-lid, Eta output can be interpreted as the 
surface pressure acting on the rigid-lid. 
Eta is given in meter and the surface pressure is simply 
Eta * gravity * rhoConst (=rhoNil by default)

Frequency of output (in seconds) are part of &PARM03 parameter namelist 
in file "data":
 dumpFreq    to write output files containing the main model variables ;
 taveFreq    to write time-average output files ; available only when
	      "ALLOW_TIMEAVE" is "#define" in CPP_OPTIONS.h
 diagFreq    write some other intermediate diagnostics.
 monitorFreq write to the standard output file, some statistics (min,max,
             mean,standard deviation ...) of the main model variables
 pChkptFreq  to write permanent pickup files, to enable to restart the model.
 chkptFreq   to write rolling pickup files (alternatively ckptA, ckptB, ckptA ...)
             that will be over-written by the next one.

Hope this will help you.

Jean-Michel