ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales

Hohenegger, Cathy; Korn, Peter; Linardakis, Leonidas; Redler, René; Schnur, Reiner; Adamidis, Panagiotis; Bao, Jiawei; Bastin, Swantje; Behravesh, Milad; Bergemann, Martin; Biercamp, Joachim; Bockelmann, Hendryk; Brokopf, Renate; Brüggemann, Nils; Casaroli, Lucas; Chegini, Fatemeh; Datseris, George; Esch, Monika; George, Geet; Giorgetta, Marco; Gutjahr, Oliver; Haak, Helmuth; Hanke, Moritz; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jahns, Thomas; Jungclaus, Johann; Kern, Marcel; Klocke, Daniel; Kluft, Lukas; Kölling, Tobias; Kornblueh, Luis; Kosukhin, Sergey; Kroll, Clarissa; Lee, Junhong; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Mehlmann, Carolin; Mieslinger, Theresa; Naumann, Ann Kristin; Paccini, Laura; Peinado, Angel; Praturi, Divya Sri; Putrasahan, Dian; Rast, Sebastian; Riddick, Thomas; Roeber, Niklas; Schmidt, Hauke; Schulzweida, Uwe; Schütte, Florian; Segura, Hans; Shevchenko, Radomyra; Singh, Vikram; Specht, Mia; Stephan, Claudia Christine; von Storch, Jin-Song; Vogel, Raphaela; Wengel, Christian; Winkler, Marius; Ziemen, Florian; Marotzke, Jochem; Stevens, Bjorn

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-779-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-779-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-779-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

Model evaluation paper

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31 Jan 2023

Model evaluation paper |

| 31 Jan 2023

ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales

Cathy Hohenegger, Peter Korn, Leonidas Linardakis, René Redler, Reiner Schnur, Panagiotis Adamidis, Jiawei Bao, Swantje Bastin, Milad Behravesh, Martin Bergemann, Joachim Biercamp, Hendryk Bockelmann, Renate Brokopf, Nils Brüggemann, Lucas Casaroli, Fatemeh Chegini, George Datseris, Monika Esch, Geet George, Marco Giorgetta, Oliver Gutjahr, Helmuth Haak, Moritz Hanke, Tatiana Ilyina, Thomas Jahns, Johann Jungclaus, Marcel Kern, Daniel Klocke, Lukas Kluft, Tobias Kölling, Luis Kornblueh, Sergey Kosukhin, Clarissa Kroll, Junhong Lee, Thorsten Mauritsen, Carolin Mehlmann, Theresa Mieslinger, Ann Kristin Naumann, Laura Paccini, Angel Peinado, Divya Sri Praturi, Dian Putrasahan, Sebastian Rast, Thomas Riddick, Niklas Roeber, Hauke Schmidt, Uwe Schulzweida, Florian Schütte, Hans Segura, Radomyra Shevchenko, Vikram Singh, Mia Specht, Claudia Christine Stephan, Jin-Song von Storch, Raphaela Vogel, Christian Wengel, Marius Winkler, Florian Ziemen, Jochem Marotzke, and Bjorn Stevens

Data sets

CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) TOA and Surface Monthly means data in netCDF Edition 4.1 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA-AQUA/CERES/EBAF_L3B.004.1

Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Aqua Chlorophyll Data; 2022 Reprocessing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, and Ocean Biology Processing Group https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUA/MODIS/L3M/CHL/2022

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Climate Data Record (CDR) Robert Adler, Jian-Jian Wang, Matthew Sapiano, George Huffman, Long Chiu, Ping-Ping Xie, Ralph Ferraro, Udo Schneider, Andreas Becker, David Bolvin, Eric Nelkin, Guojun Gu, and NOAA CDR Program https://doi.org/10.7289/V56971M6

ESA CCI Surface Soil Moisture COMBINED active+passive Product Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Technical University of Vienna http://www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org

NOAA 0.25-degree Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) Boyin Huang, Chunying Liu, Viva F. Banzon, Eric Freeman, Garrett Graham, Bill Hankins, Thomas M. Smith, and Huai-Min Zhang https://doi.org/10.25921/RE9P-PT57

GPM IMERG Final Precipitation L3 Half Hourly 0.1 degree x 0.1 degree V06 G. J. Huffman, E. F. Stocker, D. T. Bolvin, E. J. Nelkin, and J. Tan https://doi.org/10.5067/GPM/IMERG/3B-HH/06

ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1979 to present Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

ERA5 monthly averaged data on pressure levels from 1979 to present Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Thépaut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.6860a573

OAFlux WHOI Objectively Analyzed air-sea Fluxes (OAFlux) https://oaflux.whoi.edu/

PATMOSx NOAA/NESDIS and the University of Wisconsin-Madison/CIMSS https://observations.ipsl.fr/aeris/eurec4a-data/SATELLITES/GOES-E/2km_10min/2020/

DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains (https://www.esiwace.eu/services/dyamond-initiative/) Bjorn Stevens, Masaki Satoh, Ludovic Auger, Joachim Biercamp, Christopher S. Bretherton, Xi Chen, Peter Düben, Falko Judt, Marat Khairoutdinov, Daniel Klocke, Chihiro Kodama, Luis Kornblueh, Shian-Jiann Lin, Philipp Neumann, William M. Putman, Niklas Röber, Ryosuke Shibuya, Benoit Vanniere, Pier Luigi Vidale, Nils Wedi, and Linjiong Zhou https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-019-0304-z

HadCRUT.5.0.0.0: Ensemble near-surface temperature anomaly grids and time series Met Office Hadley Centre, University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, C. P. Morice, J. J. Kennedy, N. A. Rayner, J. P. Winn, E. Hogan, R. E. Killick, R. J. H. Dunn, T. Osborn, P. D. Jones, and I. Simpson https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b9698c5ecf754b1d981728c37d3a9f02

PHC: a global ocean hydrography with a high quality Arctic Ocean (http://psc.apl.washington.edu/nonwp_projects/PHC/Climatology.html) Michael Steele, Rebecca Morley, and Wendy Ermold https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<2079:PAGOHW>2.0.CO;2

Model code and software

Code for "ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth System and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales" Cathy Hohenegger https://doi.org/10.17617/3.1XTSR6

Short summary

Models of the Earth system used to understand climate and predict its change typically employ a grid spacing of about 100 km. Yet, many atmospheric and oceanic processes occur on much smaller scales. In this study, we present a new model configuration designed for the simulation of the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and smaller scales, allowing an explicit representation of the main drivers of the flow of energy and matter by solving the underlying equations.