Tools

C2SM supports a set of pre- and postprocessing tools on different high-performance platforms.

Pre-processing

• DWD ICON Tools

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  Routines for reading, remapping and writing fields on ICON grids; generate lateral boundary and initial conditions for ICON-LAM simulations.

  DWD ICON Tools

• EXTPAR

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  Prepares external parameter data files used as input for the ICON model.

  EXTPAR

Workflow Tools

• SPICE

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  Starter Package for ICON-CLM Experiments — handles pre-processing, namelist setup, simulation and archiving.

  SPICE

• Processing Chain

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  Python workflow tool for preparing input data, submitting SLURM jobs, and post-processing COSMO and ICON model setups.

  Processing Chain

HPC Utilities

• Spack-C2SM

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  C2SM's configuration of the Spack package manager for installing ICON and related software on HPC systems.

  Spack-C2SM

• Scaling Analysis

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  Automates creation of multiple ICON run scripts with varying node counts to assess strong scaling performance.

  Scaling Analysis

Web Tools

• Zephyr

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  Climate data extraction tool and web interface for requesting climate model and reanalysis datasets managed by C2SM.

  Zephyr

• Zonda

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  Web interface for generating EXTPAR data on ICON triangular grids for research and on-demand simulations.

  Zonda