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Stand-alone/column canopy codes and parameterizations
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Changing to individual time step outputs for NetCDF files. #129

Closed drnimbusrain closed 4 months ago

drnimbusrain commented 4 months ago

@MaggieMarvin To avoid outputting to an overly large NetCDF output file in canopy-app, I decided to just change it to similarly how the text files work. Now, here by default, canopy-app will output separate NetCDF files for each timestep (e.g., hourly) with the output timestep stamp on the filenames. Its not the prettiest right now, but this should further facilitate testing longer biogenic simulations instead of having a single huge file. Please have a close look and make sure the outputs look good.

drnimbusrain commented 4 months ago

Confirmed that this works as expected - for the standard test case that is provided with canopy-app, this generates three output files, each containing the information expected for that time step t00. This will definitely help with file size and is great for now! I'm not sure how easy it would be but at some point later I think it would help to change the output file naming convention from t00 to the corresponding time stamp if possible.

@MaggieMarvin I agree with you. I have now changed both NCF and TXT outputs to instead append the valid time stamp to the output files now. Can you please check?

MaggieMarvin commented 4 months ago

Yes that works as expected, thank you!