<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The core MITgcm routines (MITgcm/model) do provide some basic capability for prescribing forcing, see for example:</div><div><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></div><div><br></div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div>D.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 2, 2025, at 10:12 AM, Suhani Dalal <suhani.dalal@yale.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; 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;">Thank you! Based on these examples, it seems like you need to use the exf package to prescribe the forcing. Is that correct? </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>