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II.C CCM3.6 T42 5-Year (01-05) Simulation: /ERIK/csm/cls3331a

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A. Case Description.

/ERIK/csm/cls3331a is a 5-Year (01-05) seasonal simulation, using climatological monthly averaged SSTs, with CCM3.3.31 (similar climate as CCM3.6). The SST data set is the Standard CCM3 T42 climatological monthly averaged SSTs values provided with CCM3.6.

/ERIK/csm/cls3331a covers the period from September 1, year 0 to Febuary 3, year 6. The atmosphere Initial Conditions dataset was the standard CCM3.2 dataset. LSM (Land Surface Model) was spun up from arbitrary conditions.

B. Initial and Boundary Datasets.

The initial and boundary datasets used in Case /ERIK/csm/cls3331a are: 

      NCDATA  = 'SEP1.T42.0697.nc',
      BNDTVS  = 'STR-sst.T42.0596.nc',
      BNDTVO  = 'ozn.0596.r8.nc',
      finidat = 'arbitrary initialization'

and resolution parameters: 

      HRES  T42              PCNST   1 
      PLEV   18              PTRM   42 
      PLON  128              PTRN   42 
      PLAT   64              PTRK   42

The SEP1.T42.0697.nc dataset is the same as the CCM3.2 initial condition dataset SEP1.T42.0596.nc, except it has been converted to netCDF and it has the SGH field. The SST dataset STR-sst.T42.0596.nc is also identical to the standard CCM3.6 dataset T42M5079.nc.
Detailed Information
Complete namelist input.
Complete preprocessor settings (params.h etc.).
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C. Output History Datasets.

/ERIK/csm/cls3331a covers the period from September 1, year 0 to Febuary 3, year 6 24-hour averages of model fields exist on history tapes for each day of the run. Each daily average is valid for the previous 24 hours (i.e. the daily-average written at 00Z Jan 15 is the average for all timesteps during the time period of the 1st time-step after 00Z Jan 14 through 00Z Jan 15). The data are packed 4-to-1. The output data were written to the primary history tape only; no auxiliary data were written. The output data from this run were written in CCM2 history tape format.

The MSS pathnames for the daily-averaged output data from this case are: 

     /ERIK/csm/cls3331a/ccm3/hist/hnnnn

where nnnn = 0001, 0002, ..., 0100.

Detailed Information
Listing of primary dataset header contents and available fields.
Listing of all MSS primary datasets.
Listing of daily-averaged MSS datasets.
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D. Description of post-processed datasets

Monthy Average datasets

Monthly averages for Case /ERIK/csm/cls3331a are available as series of MSS datasets.

The MSS pathnames for the post-processed data from this case are: 

  /ERIK/csm/cls3331a/ccm3/hist/mm-yy     (monthly average for each month)

where mm is a two digit month (mm = 01, 02, ..., 12) and yy is a two digit year (yy = 00 through 06).

Detailed Information
Listing of all post-processed MSS datasets.
More details about the monthly-averaging analysis of CCM3 data.
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Last modified: Sep/ 1/1998

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