Overview of the Dataset

Background

This dataset contains the years 1850-2006 of the 250‐year historical and future transient climate simulations (HF‐TNST) for the 1850–2100 period. The HF‐TNST simulation was branched from year 250 of PI‐CTRL. It uses historical forcings from 1850 to 2005 and representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) forcings from 2006 to 2100 in accordance with CMIP5 experimental protocol. This simulation was performed on the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer at Wuxi, China. The data will be accessible from the International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction (iHESP) data server at Texas A&M University (TAMU). We have also previously released the first fully-optimized Sunway version of the Community Earth System Model code, which is publicly available through (https://github.com/ihesp) together with the original version of the code.


Simulations

The simulation name-tags were based on the CESM1 convention.

Naming Convention - B.E.13.BHISTC5.ne120_t12.sehires38.003.sunway
  • B. – CESM Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, Sea-ice and River-transport coupled model
  • E.13. – CESM version 1.3
  • BHISTC5. – CESM Component set name
  • ne120_t12. – Short name for the ne120np4_tx0.1v2 grid used by the components
  • sehires38 – Specific SE-dycore high-resolution tag used in the simulations
  • sunway – The Chinese HPC system on which the data sets were generated by the CESM-HR_sw1.0 code.
Simulation Configuration - B.E.13.BHISTC5.ne120_t12.sehires38.003.sunway

This Community Earth System Model version is based on CAM5.4/CLM4.0, POP2 and CICE4.0. The cases were generated by CESM create_new scripts and modified using namelist changes. The external forcing uses the same CESM code base.

Parameter Value
Machine The Sunway TaihuLight
Compset BHISTC5, 1850_CAM5_CLM40%SP_CICE_POP2_RTM_SGLC_SWAV
Resolution ne120np4_tx0.1v2
ATM_GRID ne120np4 NX_ATM=777602 NY_ATM=1
LND_GRID ne120np4 NX_LND=777602 NX_LND=1
ICE_GRID tx0.1v2 NX_ICE=3600 NX_ICE=2400
OCN_GRID tx0.1v2 NX_OCN=3600 NX_OCN=2400
ROF_GRID r05 NX_ROF=720 NX_ROF=360
GLC_GRID ne120np4 NX_GLC=777602 NX_GLC=1
WAV_GRID null NX_WAV=0 NX_WAV=0
Years 1850 - 2006
Time Frequencies Saved monthly
Configuration
ATM/LND/ICE_NCPL 96
OCN_NCPL 48
ROF_NCPL 8
CCSM_CO2 284.7 ppmv

References

When presenting results based on these datasets in either oral or written form, please acknowledge the iHESP and QNLM. The reference list:

  1. Chang, Ping, Shaoqing Zhang, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Stephen G. Yeager, Haohuan Fu, Hong Wang, Frederic S. Castruccio et al. "An Unprecedented Set of High‐Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 12 (2020): e2020MS002298, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002298.
  2. Shaoqing Zhang, Haohuan Fu, Lixin Wu, et al., 2020: Optimizing High-Resolution Community Earth System Model on a Heterogeneous Many-Core Supercomputing Platform (CESM-HR_sw1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-18.

About iHESP

The iHESP project seeks to develop a new advanced modeling framework for high-resolution multiscale Earth System predictions and provide reliable information at both global and regional scales, taking full advantage of the combined expertise of three world-class institutions, QNLM, TAMU, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

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