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Model description paper
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14 Aug 2019
Model description paper |
| 14 Aug 2019
| 14 Aug 2019
The upper-atmosphere extension of the ICON general circulation model (version: ua-icon-1.0)
Sebastian Borchert
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Guidi Zhou
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
currently at: College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Michael Baldauf
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Hauke Schmidt
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Günther Zängl
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Daniel Reinert
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
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Short summary
We present an upper-atmosphere extension of the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic (ICON) model.
This includes an extension of the model dynamics from a shallow to a deep atmosphere
and the implementation of upper-atmosphere physics parameterizations.
Idealized test cases and climate simulations are performed in order to evaluate this new configuration, named UA-ICON.
We present an upper-atmosphere extension of the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic (ICON) model.
This...
