<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Dimitri,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using matlab. These are pickups files from the flt package, so I am not sure they are the same as the regular MITgcm pickups. They are written and read with the mdsio package.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">I _think_ that what I need to change is the 9th entry of the “arr" array, i.e. arr(9) written/read by the routines <span class="final-path" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(36, 41, 46);">mdsio_wr_rec_rl.F</span><span style="color: rgb(88, 96, 105); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">/</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(36, 41, 46);" class="">mdsio_rd_rec_rl.F. That said, I don’t understand how to locate this variable given the .meta file (attached)</span><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(36, 41, 46);" class="">.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji'; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(36, 41, 46);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#24292e" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Many thanks,</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#24292e" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></div></body></html>