[Wrf-users] Changing history_interval from a restart

[Leigh Orf]

Thanks to those who helped me solve this one - it's buried in the WRF
manual in section 5.11 (c).

override_restart_timers             = .true.,

This will do the trick.

Leigh

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:04 PM Leigh Orf <leigh.orf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to be able to be able to save history data very frequently
> but not for the whole simulation, only when things get interesting, and
> that is after a "pilot run" where history data is saved relatively
> infrequently.
>
> So following an interesting simulation, I changed namelist.input and set
> restart = .true. , modified the start time, and decreased my history
> interval to a small number (history_interval = 10; it was originally 60 in
> my first simulation from scratch). However, the change did not take. I find
> myself having to go back to time=0 and save history data every 10 seconds,
> which is a waste of disk space.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Can it be overridden? Does the value of
> history_interval originally in the namelist.input file get stored in the
> restart file and trump whatever change was made to namelist.input? I
> couldn't find evidence of that.
>
> Leigh
>
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