Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2355-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2355-2020
Development and technical paper
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26 May 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 26 May 2020

Improving climate model coupling through a complete mesh representation: a case study with E3SM (v1) and MOAB (v5.x)

Vijay S. Mahadevan, Iulian Grindeanu, Robert Jacob, and Jason Sarich

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Accurate climate modeling of coupled Earth systems requires mapping of solution field data between dependent components that use non-matching discrete meshes. While existing workflows provide a pathway to generate the projection weights as an offline step, severe bottlenecks impede flexible setup of high-resolution models. In this paper, we present new algorithmic approaches to simplify the E3SM computational workflow using a scalable software infrastructure to generate the remapping operators.
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