aneeshcs / RegESM

Regional Earth System Model

RegESM

Regional Earth System Model

Supported Components

• Atmosphere (ATM):
  • RegCM (4.5) - http://gforge.ictp.it/gf/project/regcm/
• Ocean (OCN):
  • ROMS (revision 809) - http://www.myroms.org or for ice branch https://github.com/kshedstrom/roms
  • MITgcm (MITgcm_c63s) - http://mitgcm.org/download/
• River Routing (RTM):
  • HD (1.0.2) http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/the-land-in-the-earth-system/terrestrial-hydrology/hd-model.html http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/science/models/model-distribution.html
• Wave (WAV):
  • WAM (Cycle_4.5.3_MPI)

Prerequisites

• RegESM itself (as a driver; 1.0.0)
• Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF, == esmf-7.0.0) Library http://www.earthsystemmodeling.org/download/data/releases.shtml#v7_0_0
• Model Components (patched and installed with coupling support - see user guide under doc/ directory)

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 Regional Earth Sistem Modeling Summer School 2016 held in ITU, Turkey.

References

Please cite following publications in case of using RegESM coupled modeling system:

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

Previous publications with early version of the 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