The Atmosphere Model Working Group (AMWG) Diagnostics Framework (ADF) is an automated diagnostic package written in Python, aimed to be used to evaluate and benchmark simulation output from CESM. Here, we describe diagnostics associated with atmospheric chemistry.
The ADF package can be downloaded at https://github.com/NCAR/ADF
Detailed instructions on how to use it can be found here: https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/wiki
Instructions to use the chemistry evaluation are being developed here: Using chemistry diagnostics with CESM output
Our current atmospheric chemistry diagnostic development plans/wishlist (view on GitHub: https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/237) are:
| Diagnostic | Example Plot/Result | Github Issue |
|---|---|---|
1. Chemistry/Aerosol budget Tables Tables / Chemistry of ANN global budgets |
| https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/236 To do: check against NCL script for correct calculations |
2. Zonal Average comparisons between model runs. Vertical Contour Plots contour plots of DJF, MAM, JJA, SON and ANN zonal means List of species to evaluate: TBD | ||
3. Ozone climatology comparison to observations Profiles, seasonal cycles and Taylor diagrams |
| https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/281 Code re-submitted for addition to the ADF main branch with Taylor Diagrams now included in code along with the seasonal cycle and profile plots. |
4. Column comparison to satellite observations Lat/lon comparisons for |
| (a) CO: https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/235 |
5. Vertical profile comparisons to observations (a) NOAA aircraft campaigns |
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6. Surface comparisons to observations (a) IMPROVE network |
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7. Water vapor tape recorder |
| https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/332 To do: Adjust default color table so that the upper end of the table saturates at 4 or 5 e-6 kg/kg instead of 3. |
8. Composition difference plots |
| https://github.com/NCAR/ADF/issues/331 To do: Change variable to % difference |
WACCM ADF Goals (based on these comparisons https://github.com/NCAR/wawg_dev/issues/2):
- QBO
- Zonal Mean U winds and Transform Eulerian Mean (TEM) of winds
- Water Vapor (tape recorder) and temperature time series at 100 hPa in the tropics (compare with MLS) (#7 above)
- Temperature: NH Polar
- Temperature: SH Polar
- Temperature: Dec Zonal Mean (against MERRA and SABER)
- Temperature: June Zonal Mean (against MERRA and SABER)
- Ozone diagnostics for lower stratosphere (ozone hole)