GRU output via `OUTFILESFLAG`

[mee067]

To facilitate requesting output at the GRU/tile level, I am suggesting that "gru" should accept a list of grus instead of just one. It will be also good to have "all" as an option.

so instead of repeating like this:

SNO nc D gru 1
.
.
.
SNO nc D gru 10

one could just do:

SNO nc D gru 1 2 .... 10

or

SNO nc D gru all

This feature is supported by gru_include and gru_exclude but these produce grid-average for the included grus or all except those excluded. The above produces tile level output. The above is automatically supported when the output is available for different soil layers, one cannot select layers in such a case which could be desirable.

In connection with the above, it will be good to move from flat nc output which has only one variable (per layer, or gru), to a multi-dimensional file, where all layers, or grus are combined in a single file. I currently do that through post processing. It would be better if MESH supports that directly.

[dprincz]

Hi Mohamed, I'm not sure I understand this last point. Can you elaborate?

The above is automatically supported when the output is available for different soil layers, one cannot select layers in such a case which could be desirable.

[mee067]

I meant to say that if the output is produced for several layers (for example LATFLW, TSOL, etc.), we get a file for each layer automatically. It would be desirable if we can select which layers. In all cases, it will be better to have all layers for a variable in a single file.