The Los Alamos Coupled Climate Model
A climate model which couples ocean, sea ice, atmosphere and land components is described. The component models are run as autonomous processes coupled to a flux coupler through a flexible communications library. Performance considerations of the model are examined, particularly for running the mode...
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1998
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.40.3512 http://public.lanl.gov/pwjones/camelback.ps |
| Summary: | A climate model which couples ocean, sea ice, atmosphere and land components is described. The component models are run as autonomous processes coupled to a flux coupler through a flexible communications library. Performance considerations of the model are examined, particularly for running the model on distributed-shared-memory machine architectures. I. Introduction To gain a full understanding of the Earth's climate system, it is necessary to understand physical processes in the ocean, atmosphere, land and sea ice. In addition, interactions between components are very important and models which couple all of the components into a single coupled climate model are required. A variety of such models have been developed using quite different approaches. For example, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) coupled model [1] is a single integrated model which is run at very coarse resolution for many thousands of years. At the other end of the spectrum is the Climate System . |
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