Can Parallel Offline Radiative Transfer Model (PORT) loop over years?

[Xuhuai]

Hi everyone,

I am using PORT and would like to drive it with repeated input data, for example loop twice over the data for years 2000-2001. What I have tried is to simply add the data list in offline_driver_fileslist twice.

But the model can not go forward at the last step of first loop: it reads in data following the second loop normally (like, read in 2000-01-01-01800 for the second time), but model step time is always at the last step of first year (2000-12-31-84600), therefore no monthly data output after first loop.

How can I avoid this issue? I don't want to copy the whole input files and change their model time - the data size is too large.

Thanks!

 

[nusbaume]

Hi Xuhuai,

I believe PORT is managed by the CAM-Chem community, so I am moving this post over to their forum as they will most likely have the answer you are looking for.

Good luck with your query, and have a great day!

Jesse

 

[andrew]

I don't think the model is going to support that use case of trying to duplicate dates. If you are trying to duplicate the data, I would take the first year from PORT, take the output files, and duplicate them while replacing the timestamps. I don't think you can list the files again with the wrong timestamps.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Andrew

 

[Xuhuai]

I don't think the model is going to support that use case of trying to duplicate dates. If you are trying to duplicate the data, I would take the first year from PORT, take the output files, and duplicate them while replacing the timestamps. I don't think you can list the files again with the wrong timestamps.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your reply - it works now.