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Preparation of Forcing Files

In its default nudging configuration the model requires a spectral and a gridpoint forcing file every six hours, at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC. The default naming convention for these files are rlxmlshYYYMMDDHHHH for the spectral files, and rlxmlggYYYYMMDDHHHH for the gridpoint files. YYYY, MM, DD, HH represent the year, month, day and hour of the forcing data. The model will expect to find these files in the experiment directory unless the path variables CSPSHRLX and CSPGGRLX in the namelist are set.

Using IFS – Scripts Branch

This section describes how forcing files can be generated from ERA-Interim reanalyses (at T255L60) using an IFS CY43R3 experiment. For this to succeed you will need to be able to submit an IFS suite using prepIFS. You will further need to make a local copy of a scripts branch using IFS Git commands.

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A local copy of scripts branch damk_CY43R3_getrelax is required. This branch copies the forcing files from the /fws working directory to $SCRATCH/rlxml/. At present the directory rlxml must exist in the user's scratch space with global writing permissions.

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