SciDAC Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model

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Program and Plans

Working Area

Contacts

John Drake (drakejb@ornl.gov)
Phil Jones (pwjones@lanl.gov)

Collaboratories/Links

Hardware Infrastructure

Objectives

The overarching goal is to collaboratively develop CCSM so that it is:

comprehensive in its treatment of physical and chemical processes important to the climate system;

comprised of modular 'packages' with well-defined interfaces that can be tested off-line and interchanged with packages containing updated or alternate treatments of the same processes, and

performance optimized yet portable and adaptable for new computing architectures.

Standardizing the model's interfaces, to simplify upgrading of component models in the coupled model and of dynamical cores and physical parameterizations in the component models, is important for a community model. The final product of this proposal will be a high quality, comprehensive model of the Earth's climate system suitable for research and as a tool for integrated assessments. We will utilize and build on the advanced dynamical cores, flexible model coupling method, and extensive toolkit developed for the AG pilot project.

Participating Organizations

The DOE National Laboratories involved are Argonne (ANL), Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Livermore (LLNL), Lawrence Berkeley (LBNL), Oak Ridge (ORNL) and Pacific Northwest (PNNL). The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the NASA/Goddard Data Assimilation Office are the primary, non-DOE collaborators. Phil Jones (pwjones@lanl.gov) and John Drake (drakejb@ornl.gov) are co-PI's for the project and the primary contacts.

Annual Reports

2006 SciDAC Highlights: [ppt]

2006 DOE OBER and OASCR Highlight: Climate Change Simulations for IPCC Use DOE Computational Platforms [doc]

2006 Final Report: Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model for Terascale Computers [doc]

2004 Annual Update: Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model for Tera-scale Computers

FY2004 Accomplishments Report to DOE [doc 2pp.]

2003 Annual Update: Collaborative Design and Development of the Community Climate System Model for Terascale Computers

FY2003 Progress Report to DOE [pdf 111pp.]

FY2002 Semi-annual Progress Report, December 2002 [pdf 48pp.]

FY2002 Semi-annual Progress Report, May 2002 [pdf 21pp.]