AtmosphereModelingI:Intro&DynamicstheCAM(CommunityAtmosphereModel)FV(FiniteVolume)andSE(Spectralelement)dynamicalcoresPeterHjortLauritzen
AtmosphericModeling&PredictabilitySection(AMP)ClimateandGlobalDynamicsLaboratory(CGD)NationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch(NCAR)asi-uniformglobalsphericalgridsconsideredfornextgenerationmodereg.lat-loncubed-sphereVoronoiYin-Yang)noNCARglobalcommunicationissponsoredbytheNationalScienceFoundation(NSF)CESM1 F1850, ATM component, BGPPeterHjortLauritzen(NCAR)AtmosphereModelingI:Intro&DynamicsAugust14,20171/361
Atmosphereintro
Multi-scalenatureofatmospheredynamicsResolvedandun-resolvedscales
‘De?ne’dynamicalcoreandparameterizations
CAM-FVdynamicalcore(current‘workhorse’dynamicalcore)HorizontalandverticalgridEquationsofmotion
TheLinandRood(1996)advectionscheme
Finite-volumediscretizationoftheequationsofmotionThe‘CD’gridapproachVerticalremappingTracers
CESMsimplermodels(focusonCAM)
OtherdynamicalcoreoptionsinCAM
CAM-EUL(Eulerian):Basedonsphericalharmonicfunctions
CAM-SE(Spectral-Elements):DefaultdynamicalcoreinCAMforhigh(hydrostatic)horizontalresolutionapplications
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HorizontalcomputationalspaceRedlines:regularlatitude-longitudegridGrid-cellsizede?nesthesmallestscalethatcanberesolved(=e?ectiveresolution!)Manyimportantprocessestakingplacesub-grid-scalethatmustbeparameterizedLooselyspeaking,theparameterizationscomputegrid-cellaveragetendenciesduetosub-grid-scaleprocessesintermsofthe(resolvedscale)atmosphericstateInmodelingjargonparameterizationsarealsoreferredtoasphysics(whatisunphysicalaboutresolvedscaledynamics?)PeterHjortLauritzen(NCAR)AtmosphereModelingI:Intro&DynamicsAugust14,20173/36E?ectiveresolution:smallestscale(highestwave-numberk=ke?)that
modelcanaccuratelyrepresent
ke?canbeassessedanalyticallyforlinearizedequations(VonNeumannanalysis)Inafullmodelonecanassesske?usingtotalkineticenergyspectra(TKE)of,e.g.,horizontalwind??v(seeFigurebelow)E?ectiveresolutionistypically4-10grid-lengthsdependingonnumericalmethod!Spectral (Eulerian) Coreeffective resolution?FV coreeffective resolution lo g en e r gy de n s it y kinetic energy (m2/s2) 2 Δ x wavelength correct spectrum kinetic energy (m2/s2) 2 Δx wavelength correct spectrumno divergencedampingmodel spectra model spectrum (short wavelengths aliased to longer wavelengths) log k spherical wavenumber (n)spherical wavenumber (n)k!FigurefromSkamarock(2011):(left)Schematicdepictingthepossiblebehaviorofspectraltailsderivedfrommodelforecasts.(right)TKE(solidlines)asafunctionofsphericalwavenumberfortheCCSM?nite-volumedynamicalcorederivedfromaquaplanetsimulations.ThetotalKEisbrokenintodivergent
androtationalcomponents(dashedlines)andthesolidblacklinesshowsthek?3slope.
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