<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Mike<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is possible it could give worse results, but very unlikely. However its too hard for me to diagnose what is going on. There are many variables to your problem.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">For ERA5 I have this in my data.exf:</div><div class=""> &EXF_NML_03<br class=""> exf_offset_atemp = 273.15,<br class=""> exf_inscal_swdown = -1.0,<br class=""> exf_inscal_lwdown = -1.0,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">Not sure how to help you, </div><div class="">Matt</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 15, 2020, at 5:41 AM, Leming Van <<a href="mailto:ifanliming@outlook.com" class="">ifanliming@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi, everyone</span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Recently I tried to change forcing dataset from NCEP-R1(6-hourly) to ERA5(hourly), but the results of them look so different. I compared the results of NCEP-R1 with the reanalysis data of HYCOM, and these two data look similar. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Did I pick the wrong variables from ERA5? Or d<span style="margin: 0px;" class="">oes this mean that higher temporal and spatial resolution atmospheric forcing ERA5 results in worse simulation results than lower resolution NCEP-R1?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I put the results at here, <a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoS5GLJhmvDtjB5Ovnz63FidKeMo?e=c2hS7z" id="LPlnk425773" class="">https://1drv.ms/u/s!AoS5GLJhmvDtjB5Ovnz63FidKeMo?e=c2hS7z</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Suggestions are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">welcome</span>.<br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-Mike</div><br class=""></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">MITgcm-support mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:MITgcm-support@mitgcm.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; 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; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://mailman.mitgcm.org/mailman/listinfo/mitgcm-support" style="font-family: Helvetica; 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></div></div></body></html>