[MITgcm-support] Re: Re: how to write output file? , OB*etafile, internal wave experience

[Martin Losch]

Riema,

I am sure you can find this in the manual:
the number in the output files is the iteration number, so dumpFreq/ 
deltaT = 148800/20=7400
M.
On 17 Apr 2007, at 04:31, Riema Rachmayani wrote:

> dumpFreq=148800.,
> means, that you write output every 148800 seconds.
> ==> but in my configuration :
> > # Time stepping parameters
> > &PARM03
> > niter0=0,
> > nTimeSteps=47520,
> > deltaT=20.0,
> > abEps=0.1,
> > pChkptFreq=0.0,
> > chkptFreq=0.0,
> > dumpFreq=148800.,
> > monitorFreq=2500.,
>
> the output files I have: Eta.0000000000.data, Eta.0000000000.meta,  
> Eta.0000007440.data, Eta.0000007440.meta, Eta.0000014880.data, Eta. 
> 0000014880.meta, Eta.0000022320.data, Eta.0000022320.meta,  
> etc...its mean write output every 7440 seconds, not every 148800  
> seconds just like you told me, or something I did wrong??