Date
Time
- PST:
- EST: 3:40-5:40pm
Call Info
- web session:
- call number:
Attendees
lots of people
Goals
- talk about coupled teams Coupled Simulation Group "Tune and Validate" Road Map Priorities for 23 May 2016 - 30 June 2016
What Actually Happened
- Chris Golaz read through the tasks listed under goals.
- Robert Jacob expressed surprise that he was in charge of water+energy budgets (reflecting communication breakdown)
- Peter Thornton noted that land tuning task was related to leaf albedo rather than leaf area index
- Peter Thornton: does each component have its own conservation checking?
- Phil Rasch (pnl.gov): atmos has checks
- Peter Caldwell: but they are broken and we know from RESTOM-RESSURF and other checks that energy and water in atmos don't conserve.
- Doug Jacobsen (Unlicensed): ocean has conservations checks. Problem seems to be in coupling between components - he has a python script available to look at coupler history files. He figured out part of the reason why ocean lost 3m was river runoff was screwed up. Still have ~1m of lost ocean over 40 yrs though. Notes that G cases conserve... only B cases don't.
- Gautam Bisht notes that CLM4.5 doesn't crash when energy conservation errors are found (error call is commented out). It should print warning messages though.
- Phil Rasch (pnl.gov): atmos has checks
- Phil Rasch (pnl.gov) points out that he's still unclear whether snowfall onto land or ocean accounts for the latent heat of fusion properly
- Doug Jacobsen (Unlicensed) assures us that ocean is carrying latent heat of fusion for snow and ice (i.e. snow melts and takes up heat when hits ocean)