[QUESTION] Rerunning a simulation to get different diagnostic collections?

[TylerElgiar]

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Hello, my name is Tyler Elgiar, my institution is Utah State University

I ran three different Hg simulations, changing reaction rates for different mechanisms in the model. I only allowed "SpeciesConc" and "StateMet" for the output in the HISTORY.rc file. I would like to rerun the models to get some different output files (e.g., DryDep). Do I need to change the mechanism again and recompile the model for each run? Or can I just rerun the model using restart files specific to each modified run?

Thanks!

[yantosca]

Thanks for writing @TylerElgiar.

If you have created a separate run directory for each Hg simulation, then you can do the following in each run directory

./archiveRun.sh backup_files  # Saves the current run directory to a folder called `backup_files`
cp -R Restarts backup_files   # Also preserve the Restarts file folder (if there is one)
./cleanRunDir.sh              # Remove existing diagnostics & log files

Then edit the HISTORY.rc file to add your extra collections and rerun the simulation. Your previous diagnostic files will be in backup_files/OutputDir and your new diagnostic files will be in OutputDir.

[yantosca]

Also if you are using an older version than 14.0.0, then you will manually have to copy restart files to the backup_files folder.

[TylerElgiar]

Perfect, thanks for the help!

[yantosca]

No problem! I'll keep this issue open until you are sure that everything worked OK. Then feel free to close it.