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radiative forcing calculation using rad_diag

I am trying to compute the radiative forcing of aerosols via the diagnostic radiative heating rate calculation using rad_diag_1 in the namelist. I am running cesm1_0_4.

For instance, to diagnose the radiative forcing of sulfate, I am assuming I need to insert the line:
rad_diag_1 = 'D_sulf:$DIN_LOC_ROOT/atm/cam/physprops/sulfate_camrt_c080918.nc'
into the namelist.

This appears to work correctly, since when I run the model I see the following in atm.log:

Code:
init_lists: namelist input for diagnostic list:01
   rad namelist spec: D_sulf:/scratch/p/pjk/cgf/cesm1_0_4/inputdata/atm/cam/physprops/sulfate_camrt_c080918.nc
 
 gas list for diag01 calculations
 
 aerosol list for diag01 calculations
   D_sulf optics and phys props in :/scratch/p/pjk/cgf/cesm1_0_4/inputdata/atm/cam/physprops/sulfate_camrt_c080918.nc


However, my question is: how do I see the output from the diagnostic calculation? I was hoping to be able to save FLNT, FSNT etc. from the diagnostic calculation so that I could evaluate the change in TOA net radiation due to sulfate. But I am not sure which fields I need to add to fincl, or if the output is switched on in another way?

Thanks in advance.
 

eaton

CSEG and Liaisons
The diagnostic radiation fields will appear in the cam logfile. Search for ******* MASTER FIELD LIST *******. The diagnostic fields will have '_d1' appended.

Note that the diagnostic calculations are only done for the rrtmg radiation code which is part of the cam5 physics package. I'm wondering whether you have run with rrtmg because I see I see the physprop file specified as sulfate_camrt_c080918.nc which can only be used with the older camrt radiation code which is part of the cam4 physics.
 
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