[Ncep.list.emc.monsoondesk] Reg. run time switch for monthly outputs

[Ashok Karumuri]

Thanks. Dr. Murthi. The prickly issue is the calender length, which prevents us to fix output frequency anything other than 24 hrs. Your suggestion of generating monthly outputs (post processing) and cleaning up is the best option, I guess.

Best regards
Ashok

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Dr.  Ashok Karumuri
Scientist 'E', and Deputy Chief Project Scientist
Centre for Climate Change Research
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Pashan, Pune - 411 008
India
Email: ashok at tropmet.res.in karumuriashok at hotmail.com
Tel.:  91-20-2590-4444, Fax.: +91-20-2586-5142



----- Original Message -----
From: "Shrinivas Moorthi - NOAA Federal" <shrinivas.moorthi at noaa.gov>
To: "Ashok Karumuri" <ashok at tropmet.res.in>
Cc: "emc monsoondesk" <emc.monsoondesk at noaa.gov>, "monsoon desk" <monsoon.desk at tropmet.res.in>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Reg. run time switch for monthly outputs




The variable "FHOUT" in the AM namelist controls the output frequency for the AM and "FHZER" controls the interval over which accumulated variables are accumulated.  Note that FHOUT <= FHZER.  However, outputs like sigma file are instantaneous.  So, if you make the output frequency too large,  you will not get good monthly means. 
My recommendations is to have the script cleanup after monthly means are calculated; this is already in your scripts I think. 

I hope this helps. 
Moorthi 




On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Ashok Karumuri < ashok at tropmet.res.in > wrote: 


Dear Colleagues, 

Could any of you kindly let me know if there is a provision or switch to disable the 'daily' outputs and produce only 'monthly' outputs while running the CFS2? We could of course do this at post processing level. But an run-time selection would help us to cut down generation of huge data in very long runs from which we may not be interested in daily outputs. 

Thanks and regards 
Ashok Karumuri, IITM 


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Dr.  Ashok Karumuri 
Scientist 'E', and Deputy Chief Project Scientist 
Centre for Climate Change Research 
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology 
Pashan, Pune - 411 008 
India 
Email: ashok at tropmet.res.in karumuriashok at hotmail.com 
Tel.:  91-20-2590-4444, Fax.: +91-20-2586-5142 






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Dr. Shrinivas Moorthi 
Research Meteorologist 
Global Climate and Weather Modeling Branch 
Environmental Modeling Center / National Centers for Environmental Prediction 
5830 University Research Court - (W/NP23), College Park MD 20740 USA 
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