CESM Model Documentation

Web resources

Web resources that provide information about NCAR's Community Earth System Model version 2.x (CESM2) model with its Community Atmosphere Model version 6.x (CAM6) atmospheric component.

• CESM2 Public Release:
  https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/

• CESM2 Quickstart:
  https://escomp.github.io/cesm/release-cesm2/

• CESM Tutorials, coursework (slides and video):
  2023: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/250/agenda
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsqhY3nFckOEX41g8ZUnhGT2c--5kUZ1V
  2022: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/164/agenda
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsqhY3nFckOE9a6tHliDdeEKIXb78lqSk
  2021: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2021/coursework.html
  2020: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2020/coursework.html
  2019: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2019/coursework.html
  2018: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2018/coursework.html

• CESM CIME users guide:
  https://esmci.github.io/cime/

• CESM2: CAM documentation and User's Guide:
  http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/atmosphere/
  https://ncar.github.io/CAM/doc/build/html/index.html

• CESM2: Simpler Model Configurations
  http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/simpler-models/

• CESM2 compset definitions:
  http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/config/compsets.html

• CESM2 resolution settings:
  https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/cesm/grids.html

• CAM Fortran Namelist Definitions:
  https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/settings/current/cam_nml.html

• Environmental xml settings in env_run.html
  https://www2.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm1.2/cesm/doc/modelnl/env_run.html

• CESM Tutorial:
  https://ncar.github.io/CESM-Tutorial/README.html

• CESM Bulletin Board

https://bb.cgd.ucar.edu/cesm/

CESM Tutorial 2021 & 2023:

2023 Agenda: https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/250/agenda
2023 Youtube videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsqhY3nFckOEX41g8ZUnhGT2c--5kUZ1V 

• Videos of the CESM 'practical' sessions are also available here (here from 2021, easier to click on)
  https://www2.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2021/coursework.html

• NCAR HPC computing environment:

https://files.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/1/2023-cesm-tutorial-hpc-intro-rory-kelly.pdf

• Introduction to CESM (from 2023): by Kate Thayer-Calder
  https://files.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/1/2023-cesm-tutorial-intro-to-lab-kate-thayer-calder.pdf

• CESM configurations and simple code modifications (from 2021): by Christine Shields

https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2021/files/day2_basicmod_cesm2_2021.pdf

• Code and namelist modifications (from 2021):  by Cecile Hannay
  https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2021/files/Practical4-introduction-hannay.pdf

• CESM Diagnostics (from 2021): by Adam Phillips
  https://www2.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/2021/files/practical3-phillips.pdf