1. Documentation
2. Overview
3. Current State

• Documentation Website
• Sample Output, Model vs Observations
• Quick Start Guides:
  • Quick Start Guide for NERSC Cori
  • Quick Start Guide for COMPY
  • Quick Start Guide for LCRC-Anvil
  • Quick Start Guide for LCRC-Chrysalis
• Example run scripts:
  • Model Climo vs Observation Climo Comparison
  • Model Climo vs Model Climo Comparison
  • Model Time-series vs Model Time-series
  • Model Time-series vs Model Time-series with CMIP data
  • Model Time-series vs Observation Time-series with CMIP data
  • Observation vs Observation Comparison

This diagnostics package is constructed for supporting the diagnostics task of DOE's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project. The goal of this work is to develop a comprehensive diagnostics package that:

• fully integrates the functionality of NCAR's AMWG diagnostics package.
• utilizes most updated observational datasets, including remote sensing, reanalysis and in-situ datasets.
• interfaces with diagnostics developed from different E3SM focus groups: atmosphere group, coupled simulation group, land group.
• interacts effectively with the PCMDI's metrics package and the ARM diagnostics package through a unifying framework: Community Diagnostics Package (CDP).
• is flexible for user specified diagnostics and being configured for use by other climate models.

Algorithm and visualization codes for the AMWG Set 5, 7, 4, 3, 13, 1, 14 diagnostics, namely lat-lon contour plots (Figure 1), polar contour plots (Figure 2), zonal mean 2d plots (Figure 3), zonal mean line plots (Figure 4), 2d joint histogram for COSP cloud simulator output (Figure 5), tables (Figure 6) and Taylor Diagrams (Figure 7) summarizing metrics, for climatology seasonal means, are implemented.

The package features built-in user diagnostics, by specifying user desired diagnostics regions and pressure levels for variables with the vertical dimension.

In addition to default model versus observation comparison, the package also provide support for model versus model and obs versus obs comparisons.

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