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Contents 1 Group Meetings 2 How-to Guides 3 Atmospheric Models 4 Hardware 4.1 Desktop computers 4.2 Supercomputers 5 Software 6 Model Tests and Science Problems 7 Observational Data Sets 8 External Links

Group Meetings

Fall 2009

Spring 2009

How-to Guides

• computers 101 overview
• How to run models (CAM, WACCM, CARMA) on the Macintosh.
  • Setting up a new Mac
  • Upgrading from WACCM Trunk to WACCM/CARMA
  • Upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit operation
• How to use subversion for version control of source code development
• How to build and run the NCAR models
• How to use the mass store
• How to use the debugger
• How to run CAM offline with NCEP data
• How to generate initial condition dataset
• (Deprecated) How to port CAM/CARMA to the Intel Macs
• How to use the WACCM pre-processor to change chemical species and reactions
• How to run WACCM with a slab ocean model instead of sea-surface temperatures from data

Atmospheric Models

• CARMA - The Communty Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres
• CAM - The Community Atmosphere Model
• CAM/CARMA - CAM with CARMA microphysics integrated
• MOZART - The Model of Ozone and Related chemical Tracers
• WACCM - The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
• WACCM/CARMA - WACCM with CARMA microphysics integrated

Hardware

Desktop computers

• Macintosh (OS X)

Supercomputers

• Lightning (NCAR)
  
• Bluefire (NCAR)
• Columbia (NASA)
• Pleiades (NASA)
• Cadfael (LASP)
• Cynewulf (LASP)
• Beach (INSTAAR)

Software

• Libraries
  • Network Common Data Format (NetCDF)
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI)
• Programming Languages
  • C/C
    • GNU (gcc)
    • Intel (icc)
    • PathScale (pathcc)
  • Fortran
    • IBM (xlf90)
    • Intel (ifort)
    • PathScale (pathf90)
  • Interactive Data Language (idl)
  • NCAR Command Language (ncl)
    
  • Unix shell (bash, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh, ...)
  • Editors (vi, nedit, ...)
• Tools
  • FileMerge (opendiff) - graphical differencer for Mac OS X
  • Fink - a package manager that helps you install Open Source software for Mac OS X
    • MacPorts - an alternative package manager
    • Packages
  • Geov (igeov) - a graphic browser of history files created by CAM, WACCM and MOZART, running in IDL
  • GraphClick - graph digitizer for Mac OS X
  • IDl extractzm - Process & concatenate zonal-mean variables from a set of NetCDF files
  • NcView (ncview)
    
  • NetCDF Operators (NCO) - tools for manipulating NetCDF files, including the commands ncks, ncra, & ncrcat
  • Subversion (svn) - source code version control
  • TextWrangler (edit, twdiff)

Model Tests and Science Problems

• Particle Size Distributions
• Scalability Test
• Mass Conservation Test
• Meteoric Dust
• Polar Mesospheric Clouds
• Subvisible Cirrus Clouds
• Soot from nuclear war and ozone impacts
• Geoengineering with added stratospheric sulfates to offset global warming
• WACCM/CARMA dust-sulfur developed by Mike Mills for use in problems in the stratosphere and mesosphere
• WACCM/CARMA-sulfur upper troposphere pure sulfate version with meteoritic dust removed, being used by Jason English
• Energetic Particle Precipitation
• CAM/CARMA sea salt developed by Tianyi Fan

Observational Data Sets

• NCEP analyzed meteorological fields
• ECMWF analyzed meteorological fields
• MLS - The Microwave Limb Sounder
• CALYPSO

External Links

• Toon Aerosol Research Group Homepage [1]

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