<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Taylor,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you just use the state-dump files, I don’t know of a way to only starts saving after N years, except to stop the run after saving a pickup, and then restart with the pickup. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you use the diagnostics package, then you can set the “phase” of the save to be many years in the future and the saves won’t start until that point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Jody<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:58 AM, Taylor Shropshire <<a href="mailto:tas14j@my.fsu.edu" class="">tas14j@my.fsu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hello,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I am attempting to save computational resources by having the model write output files only after a predetermined amount of spin up. I see variables like <span class="">deltaTClock and <span class="">dumpFreq but can't seem to figure out how to make the model write output files only after a few years of a simulation have been ran.</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><span class="">Thanks,</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class=""><span class="">Taylor</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Taylor Shropshire<br class="">PhD Candidate - Oceanography</b></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Center for Ocean - Atmospheric Prediction Studies</b></div><div style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Florida State University</b></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">MITgcm-support mailing list</span><br style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:MITgcm-support@mitgcm.org" style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">MITgcm-support@mitgcm.org</a><br style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support" style="font-family: LucidaSans-Typewriter; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://mailman.mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>