[MITgcm-support] ptracer start at advanced time

Stephanie Dutkiewicz stephd at ocean.mit.edu
Wed Mar 17 22:49:33 EDT 2010


The easiest way round this is to run to timestep 1000, printing a
pickup at that time, and then restart
the model. With the model initialization, the ptracers initial
files will be read in.

steph

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Suneet Dwivedi wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
>
> I want to start ptracer at an advanced timestep than the model initial
> time. I tried to put "PTRACER_niter0 > niter0" for this purpose, but
> it's of no use and returned me zeros everywhere.
>
> Is there any simple work around of this problem? I wish to use
> niter0=0 and PTRACERS_Iter0=1000, for example to start the tracers at
> 1000 time step rather than at initial time 0.
>
> Please suggest me way to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Suneet
>



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