RegESM: Regional Earth System Model

still under testing

Supported Components

• Atmosphere (ATM):
  • RegCM version >4.5 (it needs extra patch for co-processing)
  • WRF version 3.8.1 (under development)
• Ocean (OCN):
  • ROMS revision 809
  • ROMS-Ice: The driver is not tested with new CICE implementation !!!
  • MITgcm version c63s
• River Routing (RTM):
  • HD version 1.0.2
• Wave (WAV):
  • WAM version Cycle_4.5.3_MPI
• Co-processing (COP):
  • ParaView version 5.3.0: It requires Catalyst module and also GPU with graphics mode enabled.

Prerequisites

• RegESM itself (as a driver)
• Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Library: version 7.1.0
• Model Components (patched and installed with coupling support - see documentation for more information)

Documentation

Table of Contents:

1. Model Design
2. Benchmark
3. Installation
4. Usage
5. Co-processing
6. Limitations
7. Known Issues

Tutorial

A tutorial for two component coupling (RegCM+ROMS) over Black Sea can be found in here. This repository is the same one that is used in First Regional Earth Sistem Modeling Summer School 2016 held in ITU, Turkey.

Talks

• Turuncoglu, U.U., 2017. Towards in situ visualization integrated model coupling framework for earth system science, Fourth Workshop on Coupling Technologies for Earth System Models, Princeton, NJ, USA. pdf

References

Please cite following publications in case of using RegESM coupled modeling system or any variants of it:

• Turuncoglu, U.U., Sannino, G., 2016. Validation of newly designed regional earth system model (RegESM) for Mediterranean Basin, Climate Dynamics, 48(9), 2919–2947, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3241-1 link

• Turuncoglu, U.U., 2017. Integration of ParaView Catalyst with Regional Earth System Model, Kitware Source (Software Developer's Quarterly), 42, 7-10. link

Previous publications with early version of the two-component (atmosphere-ocean) coupled model:

• Turuncoglu, U. U., Giuliani, G., Elguindi, N., and Giorgi, F., 2013. Modelling the Caspian Sea and its catchment area using a coupled regional atmosphere-ocean model (RegCM4-ROMS): model design and preliminary results, Geosci. Model Dev., 6, 283-299, doi:10.5194/gmd-6-283-2013 link

Release Notes

Updates

New in Version 1.1

• New co-processing component is introduced to allow in situ visualization applications for multi-component earth system model configurations
• Updated and revisited model documentation (under doc/ directory)