Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models

✍ Scribed by Rupert Ford, Graham Riley, Reinhard Budich, René Redler (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 103
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the process of configuring, building, and running earth system models. Earth system models are typically a collection of interacting computer codes (often called components) which together simulate the earth system. Each code component is written to model some physical process which forms part of the earth system (such as the Ocean). This book is concerned with the source code version control of these code components, the configuration of these components into earth system models, the creation of executable(s) from the component source code and related libraries and the running and monitoring of the resultant executables on the available hardware.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-4
ESM Workflow....Pages 5-13
Applying Scientific Workflow to ESM....Pages 15-29
Configuration Management and Version Control in Earth System Modelling....Pages 31-43
Building Earth System Models....Pages 45-54
Running and Monitoring....Pages 55-68
Configuring, Building and Running Models in GENIE....Pages 69-78
Configuring, Building and Running Models in CIAS....Pages 79-85
Summary and Conclusions....Pages 87-90
Back Matter....Pages 91-97

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences, general; Earth Sciences, general; Simulation and Modeling