<div dir="ltr"><div>The baseline forcing scheme (controlled by the "data" namelist) requires the forcing data to be in the MITgcm grid of your experiment.<br></div><div>However, if you use the "exf" (external forcing) package, it will interpolate the forcing data to the MITgcm grid.</div><div>It also uses the "cal" (calendar) package to set the forcing frequency, starting date, etc.</div><div>You still need to convert the CESM2 netcdf files to the binary format used by the MITgcm binary IO package (mdsio),</div><div>and this can take a lot of work.<br></div><div>There is a netCDF IO package (mnc), but it is rather incomplete and not very flexible, especially for the output.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 3:59 PM Mira Berdahl <<a href="mailto:mberdahl@uw.edu">mberdahl@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I've never run MITgcm before, but I'm curious if it is possible to set up a simulation that was forced with CESM2 output (2deg ocean/1deg atmos OR 1deg ocean/1deg atmos). More specifically, does MITgcm automatically downscale or is there a pre-processing stage that can easily be achieved? Also, at what frequency does the forcing need to be (eg. 3hrly, 6hrly, daily)?<br>Many thanks,<br>Mira</div></div>
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