Commit 9be9c62c authored by Jade Skye's avatar Jade Skye
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Merge branch 'preReleaseV2-projgrid' into 'preReleaseV2'

Doc update for the projected grid

See merge request CanESM/CLASSIC!185
parents bbc11007 8748d672
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@@ -229,6 +229,15 @@ To create the parameter namelist, follow the instructions from `python configura

The joboptions file controls the model configuration, inputs files used, and model outputs. The template joboptions file is located in the `configurationFiles` folder. Use this as your starting point. Read the comments/instructions for each switch/option carefullly.

The first option is relating to the model grid description:

        projectedGrid = .false. ! True if you have a projected lon lat grid, false if not. Projected grids
                                ! can only have regions referenced by the indexes, not coordinates, when 
                                ! running a sub-region

Note here that when set to true the `projectedGrid` implies a rotated pole as defined in src/driver/outputManager.f90 with a rotated north pole latitude of 42.5 and longitude of 83. For a different domain these hard-coded values will need to be changed.


If, for example, we wanted to run CLASSIC at a site with observed meteorology, with leap years, from 1991 to 2017, where the meteorological files have the same time step as the model run (half-hourly), then we can set up the meteorological options as follows:

            ! Run length: