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User's Guide to NCAR CAM2.0.2



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User's Guide to NCAR CAM2.0.2


Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. Introduction

    1.1 What is new with CAM2.0.2

    1.2 Quick Start

2. Using CAM2.0.2

    2.1 How to Configure, Build and Run CAM2.0.2
        2.1.1 Obtaining and unpacking the source code and datasets
        2.1.2 Directory Hierarchy
        2.1.2 Using the Build/Run Scripts in the "bld" Directory
            2.1.2.1 The configure utility
                2.1.2.1.1 Options to configure
                2.1.2.1.2 Environment variables used by configure
                2.1.2.1.3 Using configure from the command-line
                2.1.2.1.4 Example 1: build the default CAM executable
                2.1.2.1.5 Example 2: configure CAM to use finite-volume dynamics
                2.1.2.1.6 Example 3: interactive configuration of CAM for finite-volume dynamics
            2.1.2.2 The build-namelist utility
                2.1.2.2.1 Options to build-namelist
                2.1.2.2.2 Environment variables used by build-namelist
                2.1.2.2.3 Using build-namelist from the command-line
                2.1.2.2.4 Example 1: build a default namelist
            2.1.2.3 Example run scripts
        2.1.3 Running CAM as part of the CCSM coupled model system

    2.2 Model Namelist Variables

    2.3 Model Input Datasets
        2.3.1 Atmosphere Component Datasets
        2.3.1.1 Initial Conditions Dataset
            2.3.1.2 Ozone Dataset
            2.3.1.3 Water vapor absorptivity/emissivity dataset
        2.3.2 Ocean Component Datasets
        2.3.3 Sea-Ice Component Datasets
        2.3.4 Land Component Datasets

    2.4 Example Namelists
        2.4.1 Example 1 -- One Day T42 Initial Run
        2.4.1 Example 1 -- T42 One Day Initial Run
        2.4.2 Example 2 -- Initial Run, T21
        2.4.3 Example 3 -- Restart Run
        2.4.4 Example 4 -- Paleo Run
        2.4.4 Example 4 -- T42 Paleo run
        2.4.5 Example 5 -- Branch Run
        2.4.6 Example 6 -- History File Specifications
        2.4.7 Example 7 -- Multi-year SST Dataset Run
        2.4.8 Example 8 -- Debugging Run
        2.4.9 Example 9 -- Reproduce control simulation

    2.5 Model Output Datasets
        2.5.1 Model History Files
            2.5.1.1 Master Field List
            2.5.1.2 Changing characteristics of default output fields
            2.5.1.3 History Files 2 through 6
            2.5.1.4 Model generated initial condition dataset files
            2.5.1.5 Naming the History Files
        2.5.2 Restart Datasets

2.5.3. Mass Store Archiving

    2.6 Model Vertical Coordinate

    2.7 Troubleshooting Guide
        2.7.1 Platforms CAM2.0.2 ported to
        2.7.2 Known problems
        2.7.3 General
        2.7.4 How to increase the stacksize on different platforms
        2.7.5 General problems on different platforms

    2.8 Getting Help
        2.8.1 The CAM Web Page
        2.8.2 The cam-users e-mail Group

3. Simple Code Modifications

    3.1 Using the Scripts with Modified Code

    3.2 Adding New Output Variables

    3.3 Trouble-Shooting Model Changes
        3.3.1 Resource Allocation Errors
        3.3.2 Coding Errors

References

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Details of configuration files


 
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