DYAMOND Summer
DYAMOND Summer simulations are experiments of forty days and forty nights, beginning at 1 August 2016, using global models with a storm resolving grid spacing of 5 km or less. Detailed information can be found at the DYAMOND protocol (pdf).
Completion of the simulation had been done until May 2018 and nine different groups from six national entities across three continents submitted results and demonstrated that such simulations are nowadays doable.
Getting the data
You are interested in the DYAMOND Summer data, please contact the ESiWACE coordination team.
If you work with the data stored at DKRZ, we request that you acknowledge DKRZ and ESiWACE in any publication resulting from this work.
Participating models
Participating models are listed below along with the models' main scientific/technical contact.
| Model and description | Contact Person | Institution |
| ICON | Luis Kornblueh | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-MET), DE |
| NICAM |
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), JP |
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| MPAS | Falko Judt | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA |
| NASA GEOS5 | William Putman | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC), USA |
| FV3 | Shiann-Jiann Linn | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa), USA |
| SAM | Marat Khairoutdinov | Stony Brook University, USA |
| UM | Pier Luigi Vidale | National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), UK |
| ARPEGE-NH | Ludovic Auger | Météo-France, FR |
| IFS-H |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK |
For more information, see also the slides of the 2nd DYAMOND Hackathon, June 2019 (at the bottom of the page) or take a look the wiki page of the MPI-M.
Contributing to the project
The DYAMOND protocol (pdf) specifies the simulation setup and the model output and data policy. It was kept as simple as possible to encourage participation and ensure a fast turn-around.
Initial Data for 1 August 2016
As initial and boundary data, daily sea-surface temperatures as well as global meteorological analysis taken from the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) are provided.
- A IFS grib file with initial data for 1 August 2016 is available from DKRZ. To process the data, you may use cdo or eccodes.
- A NetCDF file, basically equivalent with the grib input, is available from DKRZ.
- Alternatively, the initial data can be directly retrieved from the MARS database at ECMWF using this request.
- Data for Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice: IFS data (7 day means) are available from DKRZ.
