Support and Technical Issues

Overview

The Working Group 'SUPTECH' takes care of the documentation of code modifications, User Support, and the Training Course.

The complexity of the climate model systems, the CLM-Community is dealing with, is increasing more and more. On the one hand side, there is the well established COSMO-CLM model. On the other hand side, the CLM-Community is shifting to the new regional climate model ICON-CLM.  Both systems do not only consist of the climate models COSMO-CLM or ICON-CLM themselves, respectively.  They additionally require a pre-processor (INT2LM/iconremap), the pre-processor EXTPAR (via WebPEP), and further interfaces.

INT2LM / iconremap calculate the appropriate forcing data from large-scale, e.g. global data. EXTPAR provides the time invariant boundary data. Further interfaces are needed to convert data of global models available in different formats in INT2LM/iconremap-ready netCDF format.

Additionally, the starter package provides the environment to run a longer run-chain including pre- and postprocessing of the data.

Therefore, the CLM-Community Working Group (WG) SUPTECH has taken the following Community tasks

• User training,
• User Support,
• Survey of documentation of code modifications, and
• Maintaining CLM-Community specific needs in the "COSMO Standards for code development".

Wiki🔑

Responsibilities within the WG

• Maintenance Homepage: Beate Geyer, Philipp Sommer

• Survey of scientific documentation of major changes in CCLM: Andreas Will

• ICON-CLM code maintenance: Ingo Kirchner, Mariano Mertens

• INT2LM code maintenance: NN
• COSMO-CLM code maintenance: NN

• EXTPAR (EXTernal PARameters): Katherine Osterried (source code), Burkhardt Rockel (web interface "WebPEP" , Web frontend for Processing of External Parameters)

• PPP (Pre-Pre-Processing scripts and programs): Andreas Dobler

• Preparation of user training and training material: Christian Steger, Susanne Brienen,  Patrick Ludwig, Merja Tölle, Prashant Singh

Users looking for help are asked to try to find support on the CLM-Homepage first. The WG SUPTECH has established a Help page.

WG Meetings

EXTPAR

Documents

Annual Report 2011  [33,8 kb]

Annual Report 2012  [69,2 kb]

Annual Report 2013  [94,5 kb]

Annual Report 2014 [328 kB]

Annual Report 2015 [124 kB]

Annual Report 2016 [112 kB]

Since 2017 all Annual-Report-Information is given in the assembly minutes.

Technical Test Suite

The technical test suite is in development and test phase. It will be made available later. Please contact Burkhardt Rockel (HZ Geesthacht) in the case you want to apply it already now.

Status of CLM-Community model versions is:

• development version: version which passed technical tests and contains new model developments and corrections. It is shared with the model developers for further meteorological tests and acceptance of the implementation by the developers

• test version: version accepted by the developers, which passed the development specific tests. It is delivered to those evaluating new model version.

• released version: positively evaluated test version.

Former CLM-Community Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

The Technical Advisory Group was closed by decision on March 11, 2016 at COSMO User Seminar.

Meetings

• 2011, November 9th, Meeting of the CLM-Community Technical Advisory Group in Offenbach (invitation and minutes )

• 2012, April, 18th, 26th and May 9th, CLM-Community Technical Advisory Group web-meetings (minutes )

• 2012, September, 5th, CLM-Community Technical Advisory Group web-meeting, Redmine (minutes )

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