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

[Suneet Dwivedi]

Thanks Dimitris.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Menemenlis, Dimitris (3248) <
Dimitris.Menemenlis at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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