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PHASE III

CCSM Atmosphere Model Intercomparison

Script to run the AMWG WGNE Diagnostics <-Updated MAY 10 2001


Phase II model versions forced with climatological SSTs for 5 years.

ccm31060_H2Ol26a Phase II Zhang-McFarlane/Eulerian standard model.
sld3113cup0clim Phase II CSU Arakawa-Schubert/Semi-Lagrangian standard model.

Case Name Type Obs Data
ccm31060_H2Ol26a ZM/EUL CLIM plots
sld3113cup0clim CSU/SLD CLIM plots

Phase III model versions forced with AMIP2 SSTs for 1979-1995.

sld037 Changes to the horizontal diffusion parameterization in the stratosphere.
sld3113cupc74 Changes to the CSU convection scheme, including subcycling .

Case Name Type Obs Data CCM3.6 Amip Phase II Amip
sld037 ZM/SLD AMIP plots plots plots (sld036)
sld3113cupc74 CSU/SLD AMIP plots plots plots (sld3113cup0)

Phase III Experiments (Zhang-McFarlane/Eulerian)

All changes were made to the Zhang-McFarlane/Eulerian standard (H2Ol26a).
Models were forced with climatological SSTs for 5 years.

cw01 Changes to the cloud water parameterization.
lwdevf Changes to the longwave water-vapor absorption parameterization.
nwgeoel Corrected hydrostatic calculation in the physics.

Case Name Obs Data Phase II Control (H2Ol26a)
cw01 plots plots
lwdevf plots plots
nwgeoel plots plots

Phase III Experiments (CSU/Semi-Lagrangian)

All changes were made to the CSU/Semi-Lagrangian standard (sld3113cup0clim).
Models were forced with climatological SSTs for 5 years.

nwphysa Includes changes to the cloud water and longwave absorption

parameterizations, and corrected hydrostatic calculation.
nwphysb Includes the above changes for nwphysa and removes the orographic

gravity-wave drag over the oceans.
csu_newphys Includes new physics from above (nwphys and nwphysb) as well as

changes to the CSU convection in sld3113cupc74.

Case Name Obs Data Phase II Control (sld3113cup0clim)
nwphysa plots plots
nwphysb plots plots

nwphysb - nwphysa plots

Case Name Obs Data CCM3.6 Clim
csu_newphys plots plots


Location of the files on the Mass Storage System
cw01 /PJR/csm/cw01/ccm3/hist 0000-12.nc to 0005-12.nc
lwdevf /ERIK/csm/ccm31120_lwdevf/ccm3/hist 0000-12.nc to 0005-12.nc
nwgeoel /ERIK/csm/ccm31129_nwgeoel/ccm3/hist 0000-12.nc to 0005-12.nc
nwphysa /ERIK/csm/ccm31139_nwphysa/ccm3/hist 0005-12.nc to 0010-12.nc
nwphysb /ERIK/csm/ccm31139_nwphysb/ccm3/hist 0005-12.nc to 0010-12.nc
ccm31060_H2Ol26a /ERIK/csm/ccm31060_H2Ol26a/ccm3/hist 0000-12.nc to 0005-12.nc
sld3113cup0clim /MARAT/csm/sld3113cup0clim/ccm3/hist 0006-12.nc to 0011-12.nc
sld3113cupc74 /MARAT/csm/sld3113cupc74/ccm3/hist 1978-12.nc to 1995-12.nc
sld31139cup /MARAT/csm/sld31139cup/ccm3/hist 0005-12.nc to 0010-12.nc
sld037 /OLSON/csm/sld037/ccm3/hist 1978-12.nc to 1995-12.nc

send questions and comments to
Mark Stevens (stevens@ucar.edu)