CCPP Single Column Model (SCM) User and Technical Guide v8.0.0

• 1. Acknowledgement
• 2. Preface
  • 2.1. Meaning of typographic changes and symbols
• 3. Introduction
  • 3.1. Version Notes
    • 3.1.1. Limitations
• 4. Quick Start Guide
  • 4.1. Obtaining Code
    • 4.1.1. Release Code
    • 4.1.2. Development Code
  • 4.2. System Requirements, Libraries, and Tools
    • 4.2.1. Spack-stack
    • 4.2.2. Compilers
    • 4.2.3. Using Existing Libraries on Preconfigured Platforms
    • 4.2.4. Installing Libraries on Non-preconfigured Platforms
  • 4.3. Compiling SCM with CCPP
  • 4.4. Run the SCM with a supplied case
    • 4.4.1. Downloading input data
    • 4.4.2. Run Script Usage
    • 4.4.3. Batch Run Script
  • 4.5. Creating and Using a Docker Container with SCM and CCPP
    • 4.5.1. Building the Docker image
    • 4.5.2. Using a prebuilt Docker image from Dockerhub
    • 4.5.3. Running the Docker image
• 5. Repository
  • 5.1. What is included in the repository?
  • 5.2. Testing
    • 5.2.1. Regression Testing
    • 5.2.2. Continuous Integration
• 6. Algorithm
  • 6.1. Algorithm Overview
  • 6.2. Reading input
  • 6.3. Setting up vertical grid and interpolating input data
  • 6.4. Physics suite initialization
  • 6.5. Time Integration
  • 6.6. Writing output
• 7. Cases
  • 7.1. How to run cases
    • 7.1.1. Case configuration namelist parameters
    • 7.1.2. Case input data file (DEPHY format)
  • 7.2. Included Cases
    • 7.2.1. Maritime Cases with Active Surface Fluxes
  • 7.3. How to set up new cases
  • 7.4. Using other LASSO cases
  • 7.5. Using UFS Output to Create SCM Cases: UFS Case Generation
    • 7.5.1. Python Dependencies (Casegen)
    • 7.5.2. UFS_case_gen.py
    • 7.5.3. UFS_forcing_ensemble_generator.py
    • 7.5.4. Example 1: UFS-caseGen for single point
    • 7.5.5. Example 2: UFS-caseGen for list of points
    • 7.5.6. Example 3: UFS-caseGen for an ensemble of points
• 8. CCPP Interface
  • 8.1. Setting up a suite
    • 8.1.1. Preparing data from the SCM
    • 8.1.2. Editing and running the Capgen scripts
    • 8.1.3. Preparing a suite definition file
  • 8.2. Initializing/running a suite
  • 8.3. Changing a suite
    • 8.3.1. Replacing a scheme with another
    • 8.3.2. Modifying “groups” of parameterizations
    • 8.3.3. Subcycling parameterizations
  • 8.4. Adding variables
    • 8.4.1. Adding a physics-only variable
    • 8.4.2. Adding a prognostic SCM variable
• 9. Hierarchical Physics Development
  • 9.1. Background
  • 9.2. CCPP Suite Simulator
    • 9.2.1. Overview
    • 9.2.2. Process-split vs. Time-split Physics Process
    • 9.2.3. About the CCPP Suite Simulator
    • 9.2.4. Python Dependencies (CSS)
    • 9.2.5. Enabling the CCPP Suite Simulator
    • 9.2.6. Modifying the CCPP Suite Definition File
    • 9.2.7. Namelist for the CCPP Suite Simulator
    • 9.2.8. Creating Custom Data for Simulator
    • 9.2.9. Example 1: Suite with Active Radiation
    • 9.2.10. Example 2: Suite with Active Cloud Microphysics
    • 9.2.11. Plotting tools