Global Keys

These top-level keys appear at the root of gotm.yaml and are not nested under any section block.

version

Type	integer
Default	7
Valid values	7

Configuration file schema version. pyGOTM only supports version 7 (the GOTM 6 YAML format). Always set this to 7; omitting the key uses the default.

version: 7

title

Type	string
Default	"GOTM simulation"

A human-readable label for the simulation. The title is written into the NetCDF output file as a global attribute and is used in validation report HTML to identify the run.

title: FLEX 1976 — North Sea spring experiment