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CWorthy-ocean / roms-tools

Tools for setting up and running ROMS simulations
https://roms-tools.readthedocs.io
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Format of atmospheric forcing files #31

Open NoraLoose opened 1 month ago

NoraLoose commented 1 month ago

The matlab scripts produce atmospheric forcing files sorted by months, e.g.,

CT0_frc.201901.nc
CT0_frc.201902.nc
CT0_frc.201903.nc
...

Does ROMS need the atmospheric forcing files in this format? Or could we also write the forcing data into a zarr store? Probably not since the model only knows how to read netcdf files?

sdbachman commented 1 month ago

Correct, ROMS only knows how to read NetCDF. The files don't necessarily have to be sorted by months, though -- we could make new files as frequently or as infrequently as we want.

NoraLoose commented 1 month ago

ok, thanks @sdbachman!