'cycle_length' attribute results in problems

[shifei]

Hi,
I want to run model several years with climatological forcing, so I add the attribute 'cycle_length' to the time, for example v3d_time,temp_time,salt_time in CLMNAME file. I have to splite the CLMNAME file into 2 file due to the data volume problem. But It outputs this error: current model time exceeds ending value for variable: u
So I doubt that the data can't be split when its time attribute includes 'cycle_length'. Any one encounter this problem?

[kate]

How did you split the file? By variable or by time? If you split by time then you can't use cycle_length. I suggest you instead split by variable so that the velocities are in one file (with all records) and the tracers are in another file (with all records).