AMIP Simulation with the CAM4 Spectral Element Dynamical Core

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Journal of Climate

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00448.1· OSTI ID:1089224

Evans, Katherine J ^[1]; Lauritzen, Peter ^[2]; Mishra, Saroj ^[2]; Neale, Rich ^[2]; Taylor, Mark ^[3]; Tribbia, Joe ^[2]

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1. ORNL
2. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
3. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)

We evaluate the climate produced by the Community Earth System Model, version 1, running with the new spectral-element atmospheric dynamical core option. The spectral-element method is congured to use a cubed-sphere grid, providing quasi-uniform resolution over the sphere, increased parallel scalability and removing the need for polar filters. It uses a fourth order accurate spatial discretization which locally conserves mass and moist total energy. Using the Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project protocol, we compare the results from the spectral-element dy- namical core with those produced by the default nite-volume dynamical core and with observations.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1089224
• Journal Information: Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, Issue 3; ISSN 0894--8755
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

HOMME
CAM-SE
CCSM
CESM
global climate model development
spectral elements