Documentation of SKRIPPS-KAUST Regional Integrated Prediction System

This is a documentation for the SCRIPPS-KAUST Regional Integrated Prediction System (SKRIPS). This model is designed to be a state-of-the-art coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling system. It also supports the new components by using the ESMF coupler and the NUOPC layer.

The designed modeling system currently includes the following models:

• Atmosphere Solver: WRF (version 3.9.1.1)

• Ocean Solver: MITgcm (version c66h)

• Driver (coupler): ESMF/NUOPC (version 7.0.0)

The features of the system includes:

• Multiple coupling time step

• Multiple execution styles

  • Concurrent Execution

  • Sequential Execution

Install the project requires the installation of MITgcm, WRF, ESMF, and their dependencies. The instructions on the installation of the model components and the coupler are detailed in the following sections. The examples on how to run the coupled code and post-process the results are also presented.

Users can also extend this solver, utilities and libraries of this coupled-solver, using some pre-requisite knowledge of the underlying method, physics and programming techniques involved.

The coupled code is available at:

https://github.com/iurnus/scripps_kaust_model.git

Now, let’s start from installing and running the coupled code. Have fun! We will start from installing the model components (ESMF, MITgcm and WRF). Maybe you are familar with these model components, but we made a few modifications couple them. Let’s go!

• Install model components
  • Install and test ESMF
  • Install and test MITgcm
  • Install and test WRF
  • Install and test coupled code
• Coupled simulation tutorial
  • introduction of the tutorial cases
  • run the simulation of Red Sea region
  • run the simulation of California region
• Introduction of implementations
  • main function
  • parent module
  • child module: ocean
  • child module: atmosphere
  • child module: coupler
• Limitations and known issues