Climate Modeling Tutorial at the 2024 paleoCAMP

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Climate Modeling Tutorial at the 2024 paleoCAMP#

June 18–July 1, 2024

Jiang Zhu
jiangzhu@ucar.edu
Climate & Global Dynamics Laboratory
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research


Overall learning objectives#

  • Know basic structure of CESM as a software

  • Learn to set up and validate simple experiments with CESM

  • Learn to use Python/Jupyter Nobebooks to analyze and visualize model output


Three main modules#

  • An introduction to CESM

  • Exercises on running CESM preindustrial control and mid-Holocene simulations

  • Exercises on analyzing CESM output with NCAR JupyterHub

Optional modules#

  • An example on how to set up more complicated paleoclimate simulation (the CESM2-PaleoCalibr LGM)

  • Examples on how to use available simulation and reanalysis data on the NCAR machines


Prerequisites#

Very simple introdution to Unix, Python, Jupyter, and NCAR resources and access.