ICON‐A, the Atmosphere Component of the ICON Earth System Model: I. Model Description

Abstract ICON‐A is the new icosahedral nonhydrostatic (ICON) atmospheric general circulation model in a configuration using the Max Planck Institute physics package, which originates from the ECHAM6 general circulation model, and has been adapted to account for the changed dynamical core framework....

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Main Authors: M. A. Giorgetta, R. Brokopf, T. Crueger, M. Esch, S. Fiedler, J. Helmert, C. Hohenegger, L. Kornblueh, M. Köhler, E. Manzini, T. Mauritsen, C. Nam, T. Raddatz, S. Rast, D. Reinert, M. Sakradzija, H. Schmidt, R. Schneck, R. Schnur, L. Silvers, H. Wan, G. Zängl, B. Stevens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2018-07-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001242