CESM Land Ice Documentation and User Guide

Table of contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Scientific background
  • 1.2. Ice sheets in CESM
  • 1.3. Limitations
  • 1.4. What’s new in CESM2.0 with respect to ice sheet modeling?
• 2. Running and modifying the CESM land ice component
  • 2.1. Choosing a CESM configuration for land ice work
  • 2.2. Modifying namelist settings
  • 2.3. Modifying source code
• 3. Running the standalone ice sheet model within CESM: T compsets
  • 3.1. Background
  • 3.2. Running with existing forcing data
  • 3.3. Creating and running with your own forcing data
  • 3.4. Changes to some CESM defaults for T compsets
• 4. The dynamic ice sheet model
  • 4.1. The Community Ice Sheet Model
• 5. Controlling output from CISM and CLM
  • 5.1. Controlling CISM output
  • 5.2. Producing land ice-specific output from CLM
• 6. Coupling CLM and CISM
  • 6.1. Modes of coupling CLM and CISM
  • 6.2. Brief overview of CLM-CISM coupling
  • 6.3. Fields exchanged between CLM and CISM
  • 6.4. Remapping fields sent from CLM to CISM
  • 6.5. CLM’s glacier regions and their behaviors
• 7. Acknowledgments
• 8. References

Appendices

• A.1   Introducing a new ice sheet grid
  • A.1.1   Prerequisites
  • A.1.2   Modifications needed for CISM
  • A.1.3   Modifications needed for CLM
  • A.1.4   Generating the necessary inter-component mapping files

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