[MITgcm-support] Silly question about pkg/diagnostics

Ryan Abernathey ryan.abernathey at gmail.com
Wed May 3 12:22:15 EDT 2017


Wow, great to know Dimitris! Thanks!

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ryan, MITgcm does support true calendar month dumps.
> Look at option calendarDumps in pkg/cal
>
> C   calendarDumps :: When set, approximate months (30-31 days) and years
> (360-372 days)
> C                    for parameters chkPtFreq, pChkPtFreq, taveFreq,
> SEAICE_taveFreq,
> C                    KPP_taveFreq, and freq in pkg/diagnostics are
> converted to exact
> C                    calendar months and years.  Requires pkg/cal.
>
> On May 3, 2017, at 8:50 AM, Ryan Abernathey <ryan.abernathey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Many models have a feature to save averages in true calendar months (i.e.
> January = 31 days, February = 28 days, etc.). In this case, a yearly
> average would be an exact average of 12 months. As far as I know, MITgcm
> does not support this. (But it should!)
>
>
>
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