Joint WCRP and DCMIP Summer School on Earth System Model Development: Dynamical cores and physics-dynamics coupling

 

Dates: August 10-14. 2020
 

Location: Mesa Lab, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA
 

The Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) and its joint World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Summer School highlights the newest modeling techniques for global Earth system models. The overarching theme of this summer school is physics-dynamics coupling.
 

The objectives of the joint WRCP and DCMIP Summer School are (1) to teach a group of 30 extraordinary multi- disciplinary students and postdocs how today’s and future atmospheric models are or need to be built, and (2) to use idealized test cases to expose selected model design choices in simplified modeling frameworks based on NCAR’s Community Earth System Model (CESM) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). DCMIP-2020 thereby continues the DCMIP-2008, DCMIP-2012 and DCMIP-2016 model intercomparison and summer school series as well as the 1st and 2nd WCRP summer school series on Climate Model Development.
 

MORNING SUMMER SCHOOL
 

Morning lectures from experts in the field on select topics associated with atmospheric model theory, design and development. Topics include:
 

- Introduction to Earth System Modeling

- Numerical methods

- Computational performance + challenges

- Physics parameterizations

- Diffusion, filters and fixers

- Physics-dynamics coupling

- Invariant conservation

- Tracer transport

- Model verification and validation

 

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
 

Practical hands-on afternoon sessions run by model leads where students will execute and explore the dynamical cores of CESM (for example, NOAA’s FV3 dynamical core and NCAR's version of the spectral-element dynamical core) and E3SM (DOE’s non-hydrostatic spectral-element dynamical core) in a simplified model framework. Test cases include Held-Suarez, aquaplanet, radiative-convective equilibrium, and weather forecast experiments.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
 

https://www.earthsystemcog.org/projects/dcmip-2020/ or contact dcmip@cgd.ucar.edu
 

Sponsors include the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
 

Travel support is available for approximately 30 students and postdocs. Registration will open on or about March 31, 2020 and close May 1, 2020. Invitations will be sent out by May 15, 2020.
 

Organizing Committee:
 

Peter Lauritzen, NCAR 

Adam Herrington, NCAR 

Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan

Hugh Morrison, NCAR 

Kevin Reed, Stony Brook University

Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories 

Paul Ullrich, University of California Davis 

Colin Zarzycki, Pennsylvania State University