This is a wiki for Climate Modeling ATMS/ESS 559 OCN 558

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Links to models and model information

CAM3 model documentation see right column after following the link
CCSM project homepage CCSM Wiki, the PWG link is particularly good
Use Cecilia's EBM to test your ideas first

Links to information about running models locally (computer or class specific)

Queue Commands for Olympus and Ranger. How long will my run take? We are in luck, Ranger uses almost the same compiler and queue commands. Check out the quick start CC's guide to running CAM on Ranger CC's guide to running CCSM3 on Ranger CC's guide to running CCSM3.5 on Ranger

Model output and/or diagnostics

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CAM/CCSM Atmosphere Model Diagnostics for a variety of runs
The CMIP3 archive

Lecture Notes

Snowball Earth Class Project

CloudEffectsProject

OceanModelingProject

CCSM3.5 Runs

Interesting Links and Readings

Check out this commentary from the wall street journal on why climate models are not useful.
Some suggested readings for the lectures on clouds in climate models CloudLectureReadings
Email from Tom Ackerman about Cloud Radiative Forcing
Isaac Held's essay on "The gap between simulation and understanding in climate modeling" (BAMS, 2005)
kiehl_2007GL031383.pdf: Kiehl Paper on climate sensitivity

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Acknowledgements

Computing time for this class is provided by an allocation on the Teragrid at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. TACC and the Teragrid are supported by the National Science Foundation. We are running climate models on Ranger, which we think is the second largest computer in the world at this time.

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