| Short name | Long name | Vertical levels | E3SM version | Bathymetry | Description | Pull Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECwISC30to60E2r1 | ECwISC30to60kmL60E3SMv2r01 | 60 | v2 | GEBCO + Bedmachine | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh with ice-shelf cavities | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/compass/pull/15 |
| EC30to60E2r2 | EC30to60kmL60E3SMv2r02 | 60 | v2 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model/pull/668 |
| EC15to60kmL60E3SMv2r04 | 60 | v2 | GEBCO + Bedmachine | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh with 15 km resolution in the North Atlantic around Greenland | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model/pull/740 | |
| SOwISC12to60E2r4 | SOwISC12to60kmL60E3SMv2r4 | 60 | v2 | GEBCO + Bedmachine | MPAS Southern Ocean Regionally Refined Mesh (SORRM) with 12 km resolution around Antarctica and ice-shelf cavities | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/compass/pull/37 |
| WC14to60E2r3 | WC14to60kmL60E3SMv2r03 | 60 | v2 | ETOPO2 | MPAS North America and Arctic Focused Water Cycle mesh, with a focused 14-km resolution around North America | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model/pull/628 |
| WCAtl12to45E2r4 | WCAlt12to60kmL60E3SMv2r04 | 60 | v2 | GEBCO + Bedmachine | MPAS North America and Arctic Focused Water Cycle mesh, with a focused 14-km resolution around North America and 12-km resolution in the Southern Atlantic | https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/compass/pull/60 |
| Short name | Long name | E3SM version | Description | Pull Request | ||
| oQU240 | N/A | 60 | v1 | ETOPO2 | Quas-uniform 240 km resolution | |
| oQU240wLI | N/A | 60 | v1 | ETOPO2 + Bedmap2 | Quas-uniform 240 km resolution with ice-shelf cavities | |
| oQU120 | N/A | 60 | v1 | ETOPO2 | Quas-uniform 120 km resolution with 60 vertical levels | |
| N/A | 100 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh | ||
| oEC60to30v3 | N/A | 60 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh | |
| N/A | 100 | v1 | ETOPO2 + Bedmap2 | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh with ice-shelf cavities | ||
| oEC60to30v3wLI | N/A | 60 | v1 | ETOPO2 + Bedmap2 | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh with ice-shelf cavities | |
| ECwISC30to60E1r2 | ECwISC30to60kmL60E3SMv1r02 | 60 | v1 | GEBCO + Bedmachine | MPAS Eddy Closure ("low res") mesh with ice-shelf cavities | |
| N/A | 100 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("mid res") mesh with 10 km resolution at the poles, 30 km at the equator | ||
| oRRS30to10v3 | N/A | 80 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("mid res") mesh with 10 km resolution at the poles, 30 km at the equator | |
| N/A | 100 | v1 | ETOPO2 + Bedmap2 | v1MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("mid res") mesh with 10 km resolution at the poles, 30 km at the equator and ice-shelf cavities | ||
| oRRS30to10v3wLI | N/A | 80 | v1 | ETOPO2 + Bedmap2 | v1MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("mid res") mesh with 10 km resolution at the poles, 30 km at the equator and ice-shelf cavities | |
| N/A | 100 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("high res") mesh with 6 km resolution at the poles, 18 km at the equator | ||
| oRRS18to6v3 | N/A | 80 | v1 | ETOPO2 | MPAS Rossby Radius Scaled ("high res") mesh with 6 km resolution at the poles, 18 km at the equator |
Note: Strike-through indicates that the mesh is not supported in E3SM v2.
Mesh names in E3SM v1
For E3SM v1, there were 3 generations of ocean meshes. Each started with "o" (e.g. oEC60to30). The first generation didn't have a suffix and the second generation was not ever used in E3SM. The third generation ended up with the truly terrible suffix v3.
Mesh names in E3SM v2 and later
Following E3SM v1, it quickly became apparent that the ocean mesh names were not useful and the naming convention would be very confusing for subsequent E3SM versions. We had a very lengthy discussion:
https://github.com/MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model/pull/507
in which we landed on a short and a long name for each mesh.
We dropped the "o" prefix because these meshes are used for both ocean and sea-ice. We now always but the finer resolution before the coarser, we use wISC (with ice-shelf cavities) rather than wLI (with lance ice), and we append both the E3SM version (e.g. E2) and a revision number (e.g. r2). The revision number may get updated for a variety of reasons: including or excluding ice-shelf cavities; changing bathymetry; changing the initial condition; changing the vertical grid; etc.