Updates to output file, naming conventions

[kdraeder]

http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/naming_conventions.html#modelOutputFilenames says that

a new metadata field called time_period_freq is now written to every history file header with one of the corresponding values:

second_N... N ∈ {1..3599} - data are written every N seconds

... But this is not true for the cpl.hi. files, which seem to contain instantaneous values.

It would also be helpful to have either a description of the meaning of the standard characters that follow .h, (a,i,0-9,...) or pointers to that information, like http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/component_settings/cam_nml.html:fincl1 for the first CAM history file. Similarly, it would be helpful to update the driver namelist documentation http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/component_settings/drv_nml.html:history_option to note that the output will appear in a .hi. file. Similarly for the cpl.ha* files.

I wouldn't mind writing some of that documentation, but I can't find the source code for pages like these. They are not in the CESM2_0 release. Thanks, Kevin

[kdraeder]

@billsacks @gold2718 This issue seems to have not grabbed anyone's attention since I opened it, maybe because I don't have permission to assign, choose tags, etc. (see https://github.com/ESCOMP/escomp.github.io #1). Or maybe it's just way down on the priority list. So I'm pinging you to make sure someone knows about it (them). Thanks, Kevin

[billsacks]

I'm tentatively assigning this to @bertinia . Alice, are you able to look into this?