# Question about MCIP time interval

**URL:** https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/question-about-mcip-time-interval/4207
**Category:** MCIP
**Created:** [July 3, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/question-about-mcip-time-interval/4207 "2023-07-03T16:09:04Z")
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### Author: ![Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Ryan](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/Ryan)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/question-about-mcip-time-interval/4207/2 "2023-07-05T06:56:01Z")

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Please try this:

> [@MCIP5.1 output interval cannot be coarser than meteorology](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/mcip5-1-output-interval-cannot-be-coarser-than-meteorology/1716):
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> 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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