<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">Hello,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">My name is Wan Ardie,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">I have a problem, and I would appreciate anyone helping me or hinting on possible explanation.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida
console,sans-serif;">I im using WRF model (version 3.4), running a simulation of several years, restarting it every year. and I tried the following the namelist.input option:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"> restart_interval = </span><span class="cwcot" dir="ltr" id="cwos">105120 (produce restart every 73 days)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> <span class="tab">restart_interval = </span><span class="cwcot" dir="ltr" id="cwos">7200</span><span class="tab"></span><span class="cwcot" dir="ltr" id="cwos"> (produce every 5 days)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">I did it in this frequency, so that my machine wont produce that many files, and I can restart consistently on the same date each year. In both cases, the WRF misbehaves, and produces one restart file out of sync (In case 1, it skips 37 instead of 73 days. In case 2, it skips 2 days of 5). As a result, the preceding restart files are out of sync. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">I finally had to resort
to producing restart files every year. Why is this happening?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span class="tab"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span class="tab">Thanks.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span class="tab">Regards,</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;"><span class="tab"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier
New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"><span style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">(Wan Ardie) </span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="cwcot" dir="ltr" id="cwos"></span><br><span class="tab"> </span><br><span class="tab"> <br></span></div></div></body></html>