DP SCREAM Diagnostics

To take a first look at DP simulations, users can get the unofficial DP-SCREAM diagnostics. Once you clone the scmlib repo, search for the DP_diagnostics folder in the top level directory. There you will find example driver scripts you can copy and use as a reference. These are diagnostics written in python and will generate horizontally and temporally averaged profiles and timeseries plots using DP-SCREAM output. A webpage will be produced for ease of viewing.

The user needs only to change the "user defined settings" at the top of the driver script to control simulation input, desired time averaging periods, etc. There exist many other customizable options that you will find documented in the example driver scripts.

Currently, there is an option to directly compare DP-SCREAM with model output from System from Atmospheric Modeling (SAM; Khairoutdinov and Randall 2003). To compare against other LES/CRM models, one should follow the template used to interface with SAM (and consider submitting a PR to this repo so DP diagnostics can permanently support comparisons with the new model).

These diagnostics come with no warranty and are provided as a convenience. More documentation/development to come as time allows. Finally, if you make an improvement to these diagnostics or add functionality, consider submitting a PR to this repo and contact Peter Bogenschutz ([email protected]) for review and approval.