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Welcome to the CESM Tutorial
Introduction
Model Components
Shared Infrastructure
Project Organization
Getting Help
Community Experiments
Climate Data Gateway
Climate Data Guide
Prerequisites for Success
Exercise Overview
Basics
Workspaces
CESM code
Download CESM
Explore CESM Code
CESM Workflow
Create New Case
Case Setup
Case Build
Case Submit
Model Output
Checking Your Run
Create Clone
Exercise Overview
Your first CESM run
Extending your run
Examine History Files
Explore Further
Review Questions
Simple XML Modifications
Overview
How to Modify XML Files (*.xml)
Controlling Run Length
Starting and Stopping
Restarting a Run
Changing Run Length
Using Timing Files
Modifying the Type of Run
Hybrid, Branch and Startup
Variables Related to Run Type
Physics Timestep
Other Useful XML Variables
Exercise Overview
Exercise 1: Modify run length
Exercise 2: Modify run type
Exercise 3: Change physics timestep
Namelist Modifications
Overview
Namelist Variables Documentation
Customizing Output
Customize CAM output
Customize CLM output
Customize CICE output
Customize POP output
Exercise Overview
Modify CAM output
Change a tuning parameter in CAM
Troubleshooting runtime errors
The log files
Adding debugging info
Exercise Overview
Debugging CAM
Source Modifications
Overview
Source Modification Example
Exercise Overview
Add output variable in CAM
Modify the
rain_threshold
in CLM
Diagnostics
Atmosphere
Basic Plotting
Advanced Plotting
Land
Basic Plotting
Ocean
Basic Plotting
Advanced Plotting
Sea Ice
Basic Plotting
Advanced Plotting
Additional Topics
Postprocessing data
CVDP
CESM analysis tools
Challenge Exercises
Atmosphere
1: Control case: F2000climo
2: Historical compset: FHIST
3: Starting FHIST from spunup state in 1850
4: Increase orographic height over the western US
5: Modify sea surface temperature in the tropics
6: Adjust threshold for deep convection over land
Atmospheric chemistry
1: Control case: running with chemistry
2: Test case: changing the chemistry
3: Test case: changing the emissions
4: Visualization option with GEOV
Land
1: Control case
2: Use the BGC model
3: Modify input data
Ocean
1: Control case
2: Turn off parameterization
3: Modify wind stress
4: Turn on the ecosystem
Sea Ice
1: Control case
2: Tune the albedo
3: Modify the snow conductivity
Land Ice
CISM Challenge Exercise
Looking at the simulation
Computing ice sheet related sea level change from a CISM simulation
Biogeochemistry
1: Set up a BGC case
Resources
NCAR HPC Environment
Terminal Windows
UNIX
Text Editors
Github
Fortran
NetCDF files
Porting
Repository
Open issue
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