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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Suhani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You may want to carefully read:
<a href="https://mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/getting_started.html#mitgcm-input-data-file-format">
https://mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/getting_started.html#mitgcm-input-data-file-format</a> as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cheers, Jody<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">MITgcm-support <mitgcm-support-bounces@mitgcm.org> on behalf of Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"mitgcm-support@mitgcm.org" <mitgcm-support@mitgcm.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>MITgcm Support <mitgcm-support@mitgcm.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [MITgcm-support] Time-Dependent Periodic Forcings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The core MITgcm routines (MITgcm/model) do provide some basic capability for prescribing forcing, see for example:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/blob/master/verification/tutorial_global_oce_latlon/input/data">https://github.com/MITgcm/MITgcm/blob/master/verification/tutorial_global_oce_latlon/input/data</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But pkg/exf has many more capabilities and flexibility: <a href="https://mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/phys_pkgs/exf.html">https://mitgcm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/phys_pkgs/exf.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">D.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jul 2, 2025, at 10:12<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM, Suhani Dalal <suhani.dalal@yale.edu> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Thank you! Based on these examples, it seems like you need to use the exf package to prescribe the forcing. Is that correct? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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