Baroclinic wave experiment by Polvani et al. (2004)

Model

• dcpam5-20150214

Setting and results

Common settings

• See Polvani et al. (2004) for details.
• Integration period: 12 days

Individual settings and results

• Resolution: T21L20
  • namelist file: Initial condition, Execulation
  • Results
    • Temperature at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
    • Vorticity at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
• Resolution: T42L20
  • namelist file: Initial condition, Execution
  • Results
    • Temperature at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
    • Vorticity at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
• Resolution: T85L20
  • namelist file: Initial condition, Execution
  • Results
    • Temperature at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
    • Vorticity at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
• Resolution: T170L20
  • namelist file: Initial condition, Execution
  • Results
    • Temperature at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
    • Vorticity at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
• Resolution: T341L20
  • namelist file: Initial condition, Execution
  • Results
    • Temperature at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)
    • Vorticity at sigma=0.975 (animation), (12th day)

Example of visualization scripts

• Scripts (Japanese text only)

References

• Polvani, L. M., R. K. Scott, S. J. Thomas, 2004: Numerically Converged Solutions of the Global Primitive Equations for Testing the Dynamical Core of Atmospheric GCMs. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 2539 -- 2552.