MCIP5.1 output interval cannot be coarser than meteorology

Hi anyone or @tlspero
I am getting the error that MCIP cannot produce outputs at temporal resolution coarser than the input meteorology data. Is it intentionally a feature of the MCIP or a bug? (I saw some past post similar to this but that was related to WRF time step being too coarse) Thank you

The error

              US EPA COMMUNITY MULTISCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL
                METEOROLOGY-CHEMISTRY INTERFACE PROCESSOR

                       MCIP V5.1 FROZEN 11/21/2019

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  • SUBROUTINE SETUP_WRFEM - READING WRF HEADER
    WRF GRID DIMENSIONS (X,Y,Z) 295 295 45

*** SUBROUTINE: SETGRIDDEFS
MCIP output interval cannot be shorter than input
User-defined MCIP output interval = 60
Meteorology output interval = 15.0


@CMAQ_user

I believe this is a bug in MCIP. To correct this problem, please edit line 539 in setgriddefs.f90 so that it reads:

IF ( intvl < NINT(met_tapfrq) ) THEN

Please let me know if this works for you. If so, I’ll correct it in the next release of MCIP.

–Tanya