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DCMIP2016: a review of non-hydrostatic dynamical core design and intercomparison of participating models
University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Christiane Jablonowski
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
James Kent
University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Wales, UK
Peter H. Lauritzen
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Ramachandran Nair
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Kevin A. Reed
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Colin M. Zarzycki
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
David M. Hall
University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Don Dazlich
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Ross Heikes
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Celal Konor
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
David Randall
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Thomas Dubos
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France
Yann Meurdesoif
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, USA
Lucas Harris
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), Princeton, NJ, USA
Christian Kühnlein
European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), Reading, UK
Vivian Lee
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Dorval, Québec, Canada
Abdessamad Qaddouri
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Dorval, Québec, Canada
Claude Girard
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Dorval, Québec, Canada
Marco Giorgetta
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Daniel Reinert
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany
Joseph Klemp
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Sang-Hun Park
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
William Skamarock
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Hiroaki Miura
University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Tomoki Ohno
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Ryuji Yoshida
RIKEN AICS/Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Robert Walko
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Alex Reinecke
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA
Kevin Viner
Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA
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Atmospheric dynamical cores are a fundamental component of global atmospheric modeling systems and are responsible for capturing the dynamical behavior of the Earth's atmosphere. To better understand modern dynamical cores, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of 11 dynamical cores, drawn from modeling centers and groups that participated in the 2016 Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) workshop and summer school.
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