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pyhector: A Python interface for the simple climate model Hector

Journal Article · · Journal of Open Source Software
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00248· OSTI ID:1406778
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam (Germany); Univ. of Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany)
  2. Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam (Germany)

Here, pyhector is a Python interface for the simple climate model Hector (Hartin et al. 2015) developed in C++. Simple climate models like Hector can, for instance, be used in the analysis of scenarios within integrated assessment models like GCAM1, in the emulation of complex climate models, and in uncertainty analyses. Hector is an open-source, object oriented, simple global climate carbon cycle model. Its carbon cycle consists of a one pool atmosphere, three terrestrial pools which can be broken down into finer biomes or regions, and four carbon pools in the ocean component. The terrestrial carbon cycle includes primary production and respiration fluxes. The ocean carbon cycle circulates carbon via a simplified thermohaline circulation, calculating air-sea fluxes as well as the marine carbonate system. The model input is time series of greenhouse gas emissions; as example scenarios for these the Pyhector package contains the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs)2.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1406778
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA--129781; KP1703030
Journal Information:
Journal of Open Source Software, Journal Name: Journal of Open Source Software Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2; ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher:
Open Source Initiative - NumFOCUSCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing journal January 2007
Jupyter Notebooks – a publishing format for reproducible computational workflows book January 2021
Ocean acidification over the next three centuries using a simple global climate carbon-cycle model: projections and sensitivities journal January 2016
A simple object-oriented and open-source model for scientific and policy analyses of the global climate system – Hector v1.0 journal January 2015

Cited By (1)

Pymagicc: A Python wrapper for the simple climate model MAGICC journal February 2018


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