CAM 3.0 Simulations
Control simulations have been conducted using climatological SSTs and monthly observed SSTs for the Eulerian dynmaical core at T31, T42, and T85 resolutions, and for the Finite Volume dynamical core at a resolution of 2x2.5. Click on the links below 'Model Forcing' to see the build scripts that contain the configure and build-namelist commands used to set up the simulations.
Many of the simulations below have names indicating that they were perfomed using development versions of the model. All of the configurations used produce the same climate as the released model.
| Model Forcing | Comparison Plots | Output Datasets |
| Climatological SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/eul48x96_ialb |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 |
Eulerian T42 Simulations
| Model Forcing | Comparison Plots | Output Datasets |
| Monthly observed SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/eul64x128_d50amip |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 | ||
| Climatological SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/cam2_0_2_dev59 |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 |
Eulerian T85 Simulations
| Model Forcing | Comparison Plots | Output Datasets |
| Monthly observed SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalaysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/eul128x256_d48ttne2amip |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 | ||
| Climatological SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalaysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/eul128x256_d50 |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 |
Finite Volume 2x2.5 Simulations
| Model Forcing | Comparison Plots | Output Datasets |
| Monthly observed SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalaysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/fv2x2.5_d86amip |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 | ||
| Climatological SSTs | vs. Obs/Reanalaysis | Monthly climatology files Raw monthly history files are available only on the NCAR MSS at /JMCCAA/csm/cam2_0_2_dev73_brnchT_fvtp-fv |
| vs. T42 CAM 2.0 |
Earth Simulator CCSM and CAM-AMIP Ensemble Simulations
CESM Project
The Community Earth System Model (CESM) is a fully-coupled, global climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states.
CESM is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Administration of the CESM is maintained by the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Documentation
- CAM 3.0 Users Guide
[html] [pdf] [ps] - Scientific Description of CAM 3.0 [html] [pdf] [ps]
- CAM 3.0 Source Code [html]
- Single Column Model (SCAM)
- Documentation for older releases [CAM 2.0] [CCM3]
Detailed Design
Control Simulations
- CAM 3.0 [simulations]
- Simulations using older releases [CAM 2.0] [CAM 2.0.1] [CCM3]