Model User's Guide

These pages contain instructions on how to run E3SM and its components.   It also includes instructions for preparing input data used by E3SM.

• Installation Guide
  • Hardware/Software Configuration
  • Installing E3SM on a cluster or HPC platform
  • Build/install a Netcdf that works for E3SM
  • Testing for NetCDF Compatibility/Validity
  • Installing perl modules as a non-root user
  • Installing MOAB and TempestRemap for E3SM
  • Installing E3SM with MALI
• Running E3SM: step-by-step guide
• EAM User's Guide
  • How to run RRTMGP standalone test
  • How to perform nudging simulations with the regional refined model (RRM)
  • Running the ACME Single Column Model
  • How to get rectangular lat-lon output from CAM running SE
  • EAM's HOMME dycore
  • Running aquaplanet
  • KE Spectra - best practices
  • Plotting EAM unstructured grid output - best practices
  • How to run the regionally refined model (RRM)
  • Standalone HOMME
  • EAM Top of Model Sponge Layer
• EAMxx User's Guide
  • How To Run EAMxx (SCREAMv1)
  • EAMxx Vertical Coordinate
  • Dycore Design Docs
  • Wet or Dry Mixing Ratios in EAMxx Processes
  • Available EAMxx output variables
• ELM User's Guide
  • Creating CLM surface datasets
  • Issues with TWS_MONTH_BEGIN variable
• CIME Users Guide
  • How to Create a New PE Layout
  • How to create a new compset
  • How to Continue a Run in a Different Directory/Machine
  • How component configurations work
  • Creating SSP370 and SSP585 compsets for E3SM
  • Exclusive process stride – EXCL_STRIDE
• MPAS User's Guide
  • Make a new graph partition for MPAS
  • MPAS Testing and Machine-specific Instructions
  • MPAS-Ocean and MPAS-Seaice meshes
• MALI User's Guide
• E3SM v1 SYPD matrix
• E3SM v2 SYPD matrix
• E3SM v3 SYPD matrix
• Running E3SM on New Atmosphere Grids
  • Generate atm initial condition from analysis data
  • Generate the Grid Mesh (Exodus) File for a new Regionally-Refined Grid
  • Offline remapping workflow with mbtempest
  • Special Considerations for FV Physics Grids
  • Creating mapping and domain files
  • Recommended Mapping Procedures for E3SM Atmosphere Grids
  • Mapping issues for high-res meshes
  • negative weights in cube_to_target
  • Atmospheric Topography Generation
  • Generating land model initial conditions
• Timer Guide