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-Omega:
-  TimeIntegration:
-    CalendarType: No Leap
-    TimeStepper: Forward-Backward
-    TimeStep: 0000_00:10:00
-    StartTime: 0001-01-01_00:00:00
-    StopTime: 0001-01-01_02:00:00
-    RunDuration: none
-  Dimension:
-    NVertLevels: 60
-  Decomp:
-    HaloWidth: 3
-    DecompMethod: MetisKWay
-  State:
-    NTimeLevels: 2
-  Advection:
-    FluxThicknessType: Center
-    FluxTracerType: Center
-  Tendencies:
-    ThicknessFluxTendencyEnable: true
-    PVTendencyEnable: true
-    KETendencyEnable: true
-    SSHTendencyEnable: true
-    VelDiffTendencyEnable: true
-    ViscDel2: 1.0e3
-    VelHyperDiffTendencyEnable: true
-    ViscDel4: 1.2e11
-    DivFactor: 1.0
-    TracerHorzAdvTendencyEnable: true
-    HorzTracerFluxOrder: 2
-    TracerDiffTendencyEnable: true
-    EddyDiff2: 10.0
-    TracerHyperDiffTendencyEnable: true
-    EddyDiff4: 0.0
-    UseCustomTendency: false
-    ManufacturedSolutionTendency: false
-  Tracers:
-    Base: [Temperature, Salinity]
-    Debug: [Debug1, Debug2, Debug3]
-  Eos:
-    EosType: Linear
-    LinearDRhoDT: -0.2
-    LinearDRhoDS: 0.8
-    LinearRhoT0S0 : 1000.0
-  IOStreams:
-    # InitialState should only be used when starting from scratch.
-    # For restart runs, the frequency units should be changed from
-    # "OnStartup" to "never" so that the initial state file is not read.
-    InitialState:
-      UsePointerFile: false
-      Filename: OmegaMesh.nc
-      Mode: read
-      Precision: double
-      Freq: 1
-      FreqUnits: OnStartup
-      UseStartEnd: false
-      Contents:
-        - State
-        - Base
-    # Restarts are used to initialize for all job submissions after the very
-    # first startup job. We use UseStartEnd with a start time just after the
-    # simulation start time so that omega does not attempt to use a restart
-    # for the first startup job.
-    RestartRead:
-      UsePointerFile: true
-      PointerFilename: ocn.pointer
-      Mode: read
-      Precision: double
-      Freq: 1
-      FreqUnits: OnStartup
-      UseStartEnd: true
-      StartTime: 0001-01-01_00:00:01
-      EndTime: 99999-12-31_00:00:00
-      Contents:
-        - Restart
-    RestartWrite:
-      UsePointerFile: true
-      PointerFilename: ocn.pointer
-      Filename: ocn.restart.$Y-$M-$D_$h.$m.$s
-      Mode: write
-      IfExists: replace
-      Precision: double
-      Freq: 6
-      FreqUnits: months
-      UseStartEnd: false
-      Contents:
-        - Restart
-    History:
-      UsePointerFile: false
-      Filename: ocn.hist.$SimTime
-      Mode: write
-      IfExists: replace
-      Precision: double
-      Freq: 1
-      FreqUnits: months
-      UseStartEnd: false
-      Contents:
-        - Tracers
-        - State
-        - SshCellDefault
-    Highfreq:
-      UsePointerFile: false
-      Filename: ocn.hifreq.$Y-$M
-      Mode: write
-      IfExists: append
-      Precision: single
-      Freq: 10
-      FreqUnits: days
-      FileFreq: 1
-      FileFreqUnits: months
-      UseStartEnd: true
-      StartTime: 0001-06-01_00:00:00
-      EndTime: 0001-07-31_00:00:00
-      Contents:
-        - Tracers
-  ManufacturedSolution:
-    WavelengthX: 5.0e6
-    WavelengthY: 4.33013e6
-    Amplitude: 1.0