METTOP, Challenging Research Topics: Introduction to the national Earth System Modelling system

Course Type	Day	Time	Room
Lecture	Thursday	16:00 - 18:15	4.001
Seminar	Tuesday	15:00 - 17:15	3.137

First meeting: Thursday 16.10. 16:00 (4pm)

This course will provide an introduction into the national Earth System Modeling System, that is currently developed in the framework of the natESM project. The focus will be on different components of the ICON model - like Atmosphere, Ocean, Land -  but also cover further parts as land-ice modeling (PISM), an alternative ocean model (FESOM) or specific evaluation approaches and many further topics. Additionally, the course will also cover technical aspects as the current challenges faced on the HPC side (e.g. transition from CPUs to GPUs), the coupling of different components or the possibility to connect additional components via an interface (Comin). The lectures will be given by experts from various german institutions in a hybrid way. This theoretical part will be accompanied by a more hands-on practical part, which will cover set-up, application and evaluation of own model simulations in groups. These projects have to be presented at the end of the course. 

By this, the course will give an unique opportunity to learn about all different aspects of earth system modeling – covering physical, theoretical, technical and hands-on parts. By inviting experts from varying institutions as lecturer, it will also provide a comprehensive overview on different institutions that are involved in the development of earth system models in Germany. 

Current Agenda (Lectures): 

• Thu 16.10. Start, Logistics, Group formation, Projects
• Thu 23.10. Introduction to Earth System Modeling, overview on the natESM project
  Lecturer: Vera Schemann and Iris Ehlert (coordinator natESM project, German climate computing center (DKRZ) )
• Thu 30.10. Core Component: ICON-Atmosphere
  Lecturer: Hauke Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Global Circulation and Climate group)
• Tue 4.11. Core Component: ICON-Ocean
  Lecturer: Peter Korn and Nils Brüggemann (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
• Thu 6.11. Running Earth System Models on supercomputers
  Lecturer: Georgiana Mania, Dominik Zobel, Florian Ziemen, Claudia Frauen, Jan Frederik Engels (German climate computing center (DKRZ))
• Thu 13.11. (+ evtl. Tue 11.11.)  Infrastructure component: Community Interface (Comin)
  Lecturer: Florian Prill (German weather service (DWD)) and Aparna Devulapalli (German climate computing center (DKRZ))
• Thu 20.11. Infrastructure component: Coupler (YAC)
  Lecturer: Moritz Hanke (German climate computing center (DKRZ))
• Thu 27.11. Evaluation tool: ESMValTool
  Lecturer: Birgit Hassler (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) and Bettina Gier (University Bremen, IUP, Climate Modelling)
• Thu 4.12. From chemistry to clouds: modeling aerosol processes and interactions with ICON-ART
  Lecturer: Corinna Hoose (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Cloud physics) and Ali Hoshyaripour (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Aerosol and Reactive Tracer Modelling)
• Thu 11.12. Land modelling in ICON
  Lecturer: Linda Schlemmer (German weather service (DWD)) and Reiner Schnur (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
• Thu 18.12. Ice sheet modeling with PISM - feedbacks and timescales of interaction with the Earth system and society
  Lecturer: Torsten Albrecht (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA))
• Thu 8.1. MESSy - an integrated framework for atmospheric chemistry, physics and diagnostics
  Lecturer: Kerstin Hartung or Patrick Jöckel (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
• Core Component: FESOM