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EAM Technical Guide

This Technical Guide describes the physics of version 3 of the E3SM Atmospheric Model

Dynamics and Physics

  • HOMME: Dynamical core.

  • Atmospheric-Grid: Grid used with dynamical core

  • P3: Stratiform cloud microphysics scheme.

  • CLUBB: Parameterization of subgrid-scale turbulence and clouds.

  • Zhang-McFarlane: Deep convection parameterization.

  • RRTMG: Parameterization of radiation.

  • MAM: Primary parameterization schemes used to represent aerosols.

  • VBS: Parameterization of secondary organic aerosols.

  • Dust: Parameterization of dust emissions.

  • OCEANFILMS: Parameterization of sea soray irganic aerosol emissions.

  • chemUCI + Linoz v3: Interactive atmospheric chemistry packages.

Diagnostic outputs

  • COSP: Scheme that allows the model to output satellite simulator output.

  • ARM Diags: Diagnostic package that allows the model output to be compared against ARM measurements.