Contents

• 1 Atmospheric Driver
  • 1.1 Control Information
  • 1.2 Initialization
  • 1.3 CAM_run
  • 1.4 Physics and Dynamics Coupling
  
  
• 2 Dynamics Package
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 Requirements
  • 2.3 Array Dimensions
  • 2.4 Precision of Reals
  • 2.5 Dynamics Interface
  • 2.6 Derived Types
  • 2.7 Public Methods
  • 2.8 Internal Design
  
  
• 3 Physics Package
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Requirements
  • 3.3 Design
  
  
• 4 Dynamics-Physics Coupling Module
  • 4.1 Initialization
  • 4.2 Chunks to Blocks Transpose
  • 4.3 Registration of Packages
  • 4.4 Transformations
  
  
• 5 Utility Modules
  • 5.1 Description
  • 5.2 Layered Software Design
  • 5.3 Derived Types
  • 5.4 Modules
  
  
• 6 Review Status
• 7 Glossary
• Bibliography
• About this document ...

This document describes the software design of the atmospheric model and its interface to the physics and dynamics packages. A layered desgin is discussed in the Architecture Document that is carried out here. The model layer is modularized in a package structure with dynamics and physics packages. The physics package internal interfaces to the physical and chemical parameterizations are described are described in another document. The interface to a utilities/library layer are also described.