The user support is organized by the CLM-Community working group SUPTECH . There are several sources from which community members can get support.
The community internal wiki 🔑 contains a lot of technical and source code information.
In case of problems, please post your questions in the CLM-Community forum . Please include all information necessary to understand the problem (you can also upload files such as the error report, the YUSPECIF file showing your model configuration, or plots of the output).
Several other utilities are available that can be used by all community members (e.g. starter package, postprocessing software). An overview is available.
The support for ICON is centrally organized by the Consortium for Small Scale Modeling.
In case of questions related to the community membership, please contact the coordination office .
The following table provides additional information for specific keywords/topics:
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Acknowledgement |
Please, do not forget to state that you used the “COSMO model in Climate Mode (COSMO-CLM)” and, please, also include the statement “COSMO-CLM is the community model of the German regional climate research community jointly further developed by the CLM-Community” in each publication. Please remember, that part of your scientific success relies on the work of those people providing the reference model setup, maintaining the codes, etc. Therefore, it would be more than a sign of courtesy to offer them co-authorships once in a while. |
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Beginners |
Special information for new members of the CLM-Community on the structure of the community and on the first steps with the model COSMO-CLM are provided in the section For Beginners ' |
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Climatological background data |
To create the external forcing data file, including e.g. land-sea-mask, soiltype, vegetation cover, in rotated coordinates please use the EXTPAR web front-end WebPEP@DKRZ |
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Forum and Wiki |
The Forum of the CLM-Community can be accessed via the clm-community management portal. The discussions in the forum are public. To add an own contribution you need to log in. Information belonging to the work in the different working group are given as wiki entries in the working group area 🔑. |
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ICON-CLM |
See ICON-CLM. Support requests see https://www.cosmo-model.org/content/support/helpdesk.htm |
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Initial- and Boundary Data |
For some GCMs programs 🔑 to convert the forcing data to INT2LM-format are already available. At the HPC system at Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), some already converted datasets are available. An overview can be found here 🔑. |
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Namelist settings |
The namelist parameters for the COSMO model are described in the User Guide An overview of the ICON namelist parameters is distributed with the code. See Namelist_overview.pdf in the directory doc. |
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SAMOVAR |
The 'SAnity check for MOdels of the Atmosphere' -Tool is part of the COSMO-CLM Starter Package and SPICE respectively. The tool checks for some output variables if the values are within a reasonable range. The margins specified in the samovar.list file might be adjusted depending on the model area. |
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Source codes |
The source codes of the recommended version of COSMO-CLM 🔑 and INT2LM 🔑 can be downloaded from the Wiki pages. The ICON code is open source and available via the ICON webpage: www.icon-model.org |
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SPICE (ICON-CLM) |
Runtime environment for ICON-CLM. SPICE (Starter Package for ICON-CLM Experiments 🔑 ) is available via wiki together with further information and on Zenodo . See documentation . |
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Starter package (COSMO-CLM) |
Contains everything to run a COSMO-CLM simulation. The starter package 🔑 is available on the wiki page. See documentation . |
Points of contact for community software and tools:
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Software |
Point of contact |
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CCLM2CMOR |
M.-E. Demory |
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Climatological test suite |
N.N. |
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EXTPAR |
J. Jucker |
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remapicon |
N. N. |
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SAMOA |
N. N. |
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SPICE (Starter Package for ICON-CLM Experiments) |
B. Geyer |
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Starter package COSMO-CLM |
B. Geyer |
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