Petascale atmospheric models for the Community Climate System Model: new developments and evaluation of scalable dynamical cores
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Vol. 125 (1), 012023
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/125/1/012023
Abstract
We present results from the integration and evaluation of the spectral finite-element method into the atmospheric component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). This method overcomes the atmospheric scalability bottleneck by allowing the use of a true two-dimensional domain decomposition for the first time in the CCSM. Scalability is demonstrated out to 86,200 processors with an average grid spacing of 0.25° (25 km). We present initial evaluations results using a standardized test problem with the full suite of CCSM atmospheric model forcings and subgrid parametrizations but without the CCSM land, ice, or ocean models. For this realistic setting, the true solution is unknown. Even convergence under mesh refinement is not expected, so we cannot rely on high-resolution reference solutions. Instead we focus on intermodel comparisons and use the Williamson equivalent resolution methodology to evaluate the results.Keywords
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