This wiki aims to help atmospheric scientists at the University of Tübingen by providing information and documentation for various global and regional datasets, global and regional climate models (and models coupled to them), and use of GCMs and other climate science software on various platforms (incl. the Tübingen HPC-Grid and supercomputer facilities of the DKRZ). Furthermore, template scripts are provided for various tasks, incl. dataset handling and GCM input preparation, simulation control, output processing and producing basic plots.

Table of Contents:

A) ECHAM5 GCM

1. MPI ECHAM documentation
2. ESD group notes on running ECHAM5 on DKRZ's Mistral
3. ESD group notes on setting up simulations (advanced input modification)
4. ECHAM5-wiso (ECHAM5 + isotope module)
5. ECHAM additional reading
6. ECHAM scripts:
   • ECHAM run scripts
   • ECHAM postjob scripts (basic output processing)
   • ECHAM plotting scripts (basic plots)
7. Output Processing (advanced)
   • Trajectory calculation: Trajectory analysis document
   • Wind fields conversion from ECHAM outputs: use afterburner software (https://code.zmaw.de/projects/afterburner/wiki)

B) MPI-ESM (MPI Earth System Model)

C) REMO RCM

1. REMO documentation (German)

D) Atmospheric Datasets

1. Introduction to Global Datasets (Lower Resolution)
   • NCAR/NCEP Reanalyses
   • ECMWF ERA40
   • ECMWF ERA-Interim
2. Introduction to Regional Datasets (Higher Resolution)
   
   • CRU (Climatic Research Unit)
   • UDEL (University Delaware)
   • NARR (North American Regional Reanalysis)
   • HAR (High Asia Refined analysis)
   • PRISM (PRISM climate group)

E) Additional Software, Tools and Template Scripts

NetCDF-FORTAN interface (for netCDF file handling (using FORTRAN)