Namelist Variables Documentation#

Complete documentation about the namelist variables can be found on the CESM webpage.

For instance, if you want to change the output frequency in CAM, go to the website and type the word frequency in the search box as illustrated in Figure 1.

Search namelist variables

Figure 1: Search for a namelist variable.

This will return the attributes of the namelist variable nhtfrq, as illustrated in Figure 2. nhtfrq is the variable you need in order to change the output frequency of a history file.

Attribute of a namelist variable

Figure 2: Attribute of a namelist variable. Here the variable: nhtfrq