config-user-example.yml

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# User's configuration file for the ESMValTool
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---

# Rootpaths to the data from different projects (lists are also possible)
rootpath:
  CMIP3: [~/cmip3_inputpath1, ~/cmip3_inputpath2]
  CMIP5: [~/cmip5_inputpath1, ~/cmip5_inputpath2]
  CMIP6: [~/cmip6_inputpath1, ~/cmip6_inputpath2]
  OBS: ~/obs_inputpath
  OBS6: ~/obs6_inputpath
  obs4mips: ~/obs4mips_inputpath
  ana4mips: ~/ana4mips_inputpath
  native6:  ~/native6_inputpath
  RAWOBS: ~/rawobs_inputpath
  default: ~/default_inputpath

# Directory structure for input data: [default]/BADC/DKRZ/ETHZ/etc
# See config-developer.yml for definitions.
drs:
  CMIP5: default
  CMIP6: default

# Run at most this many tasks in parallel [null]/1/2/3/4/..
# Set to null to use the number of available CPUs.
# If you run out of memory, try setting max_parallel_tasks to 1 and check the
# amount of memory you need for that by inspecting the file
# run/resource_usage.txt in the output directory. Using the number there you
# can increase the number of parallel tasks again to a reasonable number for
# the amount of memory available in your system.
max_parallel_tasks: null

# Destination directory
output_dir: ./esmvaltool_output

# Auxiliary data directory (used for some additional datasets)
auxiliary_data_dir: ./auxiliary_data

# Diagnostics create plots? [true]/false
write_plots: true
# Diagnositcs write NetCDF files? [true]/false
write_netcdf: true
# Set the console log level debug, [info], warning, error
log_level: info
# Exit on warning (only for NCL diagnostic scripts)? true/[false]
exit_on_warning: false
# Plot file format? [png]/pdf/ps/eps/epsi
output_file_type: png
# Use netCDF compression true/[false]
compress_netcdf: false
# Save intermediary cubes in the preprocessor true/[false]
save_intermediary_cubes: false
# Remove the preproc dir if all fine
remove_preproc_dir: true
# Path to custom config-developer file, to customise project configurations.
# See config-developer.yml for an example. Set to None to use the default
# config_developer_file: null
# Get profiling information for diagnostics
# Only available for Python diagnostics
profile_diagnostic: false