GOKURAKU DCPAM6

Introduction

This document is tutorial for performing experiments easily with DCPAM6.

As an aside, "GOKURAKU" means "easiest".

Building DCPAM5

Build DCPAM5 referring to DCPAM5 Installation Guide. Work until "3. Ceating libraries etc. and install" in "How to build".

List described below is descriptions on procedures for performing DCPAM5 test experiments. For beginners, performing one experiment (for example, Baroclinic wave experiment by Polvani et al. (2004)) is recommended following procedures described in each page.

All experiments using DCPAM5 are performed with the following four steps:

Preparation of execution files
Preparation of directory for an experiment
Preparation of initial condition
Preparation of additional data for experiments
- Additional data mean data of sea surface temperature (SST), topography, ozone distribution
Execution of experiments

Note that the preparation of directory for an experiment is not necessary required. Here, a directory is created to isolate configuration files and result files in an experiment from those from another one.

In the followings, methods for performing several experiments are described.

Baroclinic wave experiment by Polvani et al. (2004)

A method to perform a baroclinic wave experiment by Polvani et al. (2004) is described here.

Dynamical core experiment by Held and Suarez (1994)

A method to perform dynamical core experiment proposed by Held and Suarez (1994) is described here.

First step analysis and visualization

Please see here for simple analysis and visualization.

Change experimental setup

Ways how to change several experimental setup is described here.

References

Held, I. M., and M. J. Suarez, 1994: A proposal for the intercomparison of the dynamical cores of atmospheric general circuation models, Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1825--1830.