Getting started

Here you can find the basic information and steps needed to get CLIMBER-X running.

For a quick start, see Installation.

There are currently four different flavors of CLIMBER-X that can be set up:

  • climber-clim: minimal climate model configuration with atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land (including dynamic vegetation)
  • climber-clim-bgc: coupled climate-carbon cycle model configuration; clim plus with ocean biogeochemistry
  • climber-clim-ice: coupled climate-ice sheet model configuration; clim plus with ice sheets
  • climber-clim-bgc-ice: fully coupled model configuration; clim plus with ocean biogeochemistry and ice sheets

The model dependencies vary according to the desired model configuration:

  • Dependencies are: NetCDF, coordinates, Python3.x, runner, CDO
  • Additional dependencies if using coupled ice sheets are: Yelmo, LIS

See: Dependencies for more details.

Follow the steps in Installation to get the code and compile the model and then you are ready to run your first simulations. Learn about how to use the runme script to prepare simulations automatically (runme-notes) or within the benchmark script in the main repository (run_bench.sh).