Thank you NRI for this release, it is already very useful. One of the known issues in the alpha release is:
Large amounts of forcing data are created.
One potential solution is to delete initial conditions (ics), lateral boundaries (lbcs/cb) on the fly using the inbuilt housekeep app. In my free-running branch I’ve included the following lines to remove ics/cb files:
=$HK_CYCLE:'*/*/*/ics/*'
=$HK_CYCLE:'*/*/*/lbcs/*_alabc_*'
=$HK_CYCLE:'*/*/ec_cb*'
These files are then deleted at the successful completion of any individual cycle within the simulation. In my test this reduced daily scratch storage from 200 to 30 GB, without removing any actual um outputs.
You can see my branch changeset on MOSRS here.