[MITgcm-support] 'repeatPeriod' in data.exf

[Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248)]

Suneet, a work-around for the lack of support for subdaily forcing and leap years of repeatPeriod is to generate 4 years (365*3+366=1461 days) of forcing and to set the repeat period to 126230400. (1461 days).

If you use daily forcing fields, then the leap year limitation is not an issue for you.  Just provide 366 days of forcing and set repeatperiod to (365.25*86400).

What you describe below will work except that repeatperiod will never be used in the case of monthly-mean forcing.

Good luck with your experiments, Dimitris

On Jun 22, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Suneet Dwivedi wrote:

> Thanks Dimitris for your suggestions.
> 
> I actually want to run another experiment using monthly-mean climatological forcing fields for comparison with a model run that uses daily forcing fields.
> For doing this, should I create a file of [X Y 12] dimension, set  repeatperiod to (365.25*86400) and set hfluxperiod, atempperiod, etc., to -12, as you suggested in your earlier email? Is this right? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Suneet