is there a way to specify the output file time scale

[solosue]

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I'm using SUMMA Version 3.0.4.
I might be wrong, but I didn't find a way to specify the output file time period (e.g. output in every month or every year). It seems that I can only get two output files (run1_timestep.nc and run1_day.nc). If the run fails before it finish, I got empty output files.
Thank you for your help.

[wknoben]

Hi,
Assuming a run completes successfully, you can control which variables go into the output file and at what temporal resolution by modifying your outputControl.txt file. This is the file that contains lines such as:

scalarSWE | 1

The first column indicates the variable (you can look into the file var_lookup.f90 to see which variables are available: https://github.com/NCAR/summa/blob/master/build/source/dshare/var_lookup.f90). The second column indicates the number of timesteps over which to aggregate the simulation. For example, outputControl.txt for a case where you have hourly simulations but want daily outputs would look as follows:

scalarSWE | 24

The SUMMA docs provide more details: https://summa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/input_output/SUMMA_input/#output-control-file