<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 Mohamed,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You are best advised to fill the file with valid values; data that is inside land or bathymetry is automatically masked, so you don’t need to do anything. OTOH if you NaN a good cell by accident, the model will not work. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Jody<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 4, 2018, at 8:25 AM, mohamed shaltout <<a href="mailto:drmshaltout@yahoo.com" class="">drmshaltout@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px;" class=""><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hello <br class=""></div><div class=""> I am new beginner with Mitgcm model and I have question regarding the initial temperature and Salinity files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is the value refers to land in this files (Nan? or -8888 or what value ) <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And if i should define this value in data files or it is automatically defined.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="ydpae2db5cfsignature"><div style="font-size:24px;" class=""><p class="ydpd2b7ceecMsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US" class="">All the best wishes and regards</span></p><p class="ydpd2b7ceecMsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US" class=""> Mohamed<br class=""></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">MITgcm-support mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:MITgcm-support@mitgcm.org" class="">MITgcm-support@mitgcm.org</a><br class="">http://mailman.mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>