Annette Osprey

MOSES 2.2 Input Data for FAMOUS

Start File

To obtain a MOSES 2.2 start file for FAMOUS, I used the reconfiguration to interpolate from a N48 HadAM3 file to N24 FAMOUS resolution.

• Set up a reconfiguration only job xchho, based on standard MOSES 2.2 HadAM3 run xchhj with start file xchhj.start.

• Put in FAMOUS horizontal resolution parameters.

  Atmosphere -> Model Resolution & Domain -> Horizontal

  • Cols: 48
  • Rows: 37
  • Number of land points: 836

• Put in FAMOUS vertical resolution parameters.

  Atmosphere -> Model Resolution & Domain -> Vertical

  • Levels: 11
  • Wet levels: 11
  • Ozone levels: 11
  • Half levels purely sigma: 4
  • Half level pure pressue starts: 11
  • ETA Table:
  • Boundary layer levels: 3
  • Deep soil levels: 4
  • Cloud levels in radiation: 10
  • Starting from gravity wave drag: 3

• Put in FAMOUS land sea mask and orography ancillaries, and set all fields to "configured".

  Atmosphere -> Ancillary & Input Data Files -> Other Ancillary Files & Lateral Boundary Files

  • Land Sea Mask: $FAMOUS_ANCIL/qrparm.mask
  • Orography: $FAMOUS_ANCIL/qrparm.orog

• Switched all other ancillary fields that were "configured" to "not used"

Resulting start file (on HPCX):

/hpcx/devt/n02/n02-ncas/aosprey/xchho/xchho.start