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III.G CCM3.6 T42 15-Year (1978-1993) Simulation: /CCSM/cam/u3527a

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A. Case Description.

/CCSM/cam/u3527a is a 15-Year (1978-1993) seasonal simulation, using AMIP monthly averaged SSTs, with CCM3.5.27 (bit-for-bit with CCM3.6). The SST data set is the Standard CCM3 T42 AMIP monthly averaged SSTs values provided with CCM3.6.

/CCSM/cam/u3527a covers the period from September 1, year 1978 to October, year 1993. The atmosphere and land Initial Conditions datasets were the standard CCM3.6 datasets.

B. Initial and Boundary Datasets.

The initial and boundary datasets used in Case /CCSM/cam/u3527a are:

      NCDATA  = 'SEP1.T42.0198.nc',
      BNDTVS  = 'sst_jan1978-sep1993.nc',
      BNDTVO  = 'ozn.0596.r8.nc',
      finidat = 'CCM3.5LSMICSEP1.0198.nc'

and resolution parameters:

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

Detailed Information
Complete namelist input.
Complete preprocessor settings (params.h etc.).
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C. Output History Datasets.

/CCSM/cam/u3527a covers the period from September 1, year 1978 to October, year 1993 Monthly averages of model fields exist on history tapes for each month of the run. Each monthly average is valid for the current month and current year of the date encoded into the MSS filename. The date in the history tape header will be the first timestep of the first day of the next month (i.e. the monthy-average tape named .../1978-09 contains model data averaged over the month of September 1, year 1978. The averaging period extends from the first timestep of the first day of September 1, year 1978 through the first timestep of the first day of the next month. The date in the history tape header will be 00Z 1 October, year 1978). The data are NOT packed. Daily averages were also output to the ha series of auxiliary tapes. The output data from this run were written in CCM2 history tape format.

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

     /CCSM/cam/u3527a/ccm3/hist/yyyy-mm

where yyyy = the year and
mm = the month

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

     /CCSM/cam/u3527a/ccm3/hist/hannnn

where nnnn = 0001, 0002, ..., 0183.

Detailed Information

Listing of primary dataset header contents and available fields.

Listing of all MSS primary datasets.

Listing of daily aux dataset header and available fields.

Listing of daily-averaged MSS datasets.

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Detailed Information
Listing of primary dataset header contents and available fields.
Listing of all MSS primary datasets.
Listing of daily aux dataset header and available fields.
Listing of daily-averaged MSS datasets.
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All of the output datasets are in IEEE history tape format.

D. Description of post-processed datasets

Monthy Average datasets

Monthly averages for Case /CCSM/cam/u3527ac are available as series of MSS datasets.

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

  /CCSM/cam/u3527ac/ccm3/hist/yyyy-mm     (monthly average for each month)

where mm is a two digit month (mm = 01, 02, ..., 12) and yyyy is a four digit year (yyyy = 1978 through 1993). Annual averages for Case /CCSM/cam/u3527ac are available as series of MSS datasets.

  /CCSM/cam/u3527ac/ccm3/hist/yyyy-01_12     (annual average for each year)

Ensamble averages for Case /CCSM/cam/u3527ac are available as series of MSS datasets.

  /CCSM/cam/u3527ac/ccm3/hist/DJF-yyyy-yyyy     (ensamble average)

  where DJF-yyyy-yyyy refers to the average over December, January, Feburary for the winter of the given year

Ensamble averages for Case /CCSM/cam/u3527ac are available as series of MSS datasets.

  /CCSM/cam/u3527ac/ccm3/hist/JJA-yyyy-yyyy     (ensamble average)

  where JJA-yyyy-yyyy refers to the average over June, July, August for the summer of the given year

The post-processed datasets are in a different MSS directory as noted above. The post-processed datasets are all in COS-blocked Cray-format. In addition to the post-processed datasets there are COS-blocked Cray versions of the output files in this MSS directory as well.

Detailed Information

Listing of all post-processed MSS datasets.

More details about the monthly-averaging analysis of CCM3 data.

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Detailed Information
Listing of all post-processed MSS datasets.
More details about the monthly-averaging analysis of CCM3 data.
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