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Revision as of 11:09, 24 February 2023

Recommended ICON Namelist Settings

It is necessary for the user to choose the ICON settings carefully. Part of the values listed in are recommended to obtain a stable ICON-ART simulation with scientifically reasonable results. Another part is necessary to enable ART features like aerosol-cloud-interactions.

Recommended ICON namelist settings for ART tracers.
Parameter Value Namelist Description
dtime - run_nml If facing stability problems, it is recommended to use a shorter time step as recommended by operational setups (e.g. 0.6*dtime).
inwp_gscp 6 nwp_phy_nml In order to enable aerosol-cloud-interactions within ICON-ART, you have to specify this. Note, that you will still need to set iart_aci_warm and iart_aci_cold from .
irad_aero 6 radiation_nml aerosol optical properties are taken from climatology
9 optical properties depend on aerosol concentrations (set iart_ari = 1 in art_nml )

One caveat in the Tanle above is that inwp_gscp requires ICON to use the 2-moment scheme.

ART Namelists

ICON-ART has an own namelist to modify the setup of ART simulations at runtime. The main switch for ART, lart, is located inside run_nml. The namelist for the other ART switches is called art_nml.

A naming convention is used in order to show the type of data. An INTEGER namelist parameter starts with iart_, a REAL namelist parameter starts with rart_, a LOGICAL namelist parameter starts with lart_, and a CHARACTER namelist parameter starts with cart_.

The ICON-ART namelist is located in the module src/namelists/mo_art_nml.f90. General namelist parameters are listed and explained within . Namelist parameters for ART input are listed within . Namelist parameters related to atmospheric chemistry are listed within . Namelist parameters related to aerosol physics are listed within . Namelist parameters related to feedback processes between aerosols and meteorological variables are listed in . Finally, namelist parameters related to physics parameterizations in ICON are listed in .




Art namelist parameters
Name function
General Variables
iart_init_aero Initialization of aerosol species
iart_init_gas Initialization of gaseous species
lart_diag_out Enable output of diagnostic fields
lart_pntSrc Enables point sources
lart_emiss_turbdiff Switch if emissions should be included as surface flux condition
cart_input_folder Absolute Path to ART Input Files
cart_io_suffix user given suffix instead of automatically generated grid number
Atmospheric Chemistry
lart_chem Main switch to enable chemistry
lart_chemtracer Switch for parametrised chemtracers
lart_mecca Switch for MECCA chemistry
lart_psc Switch for computation of PSCs
cart_vortex_init_date Date of vortex initialization
cheminit_file(max_dom) Path to chemical initialization file
cart_cheminit_coord Path to chemical initialization coordinate file
cart_cheminit_type Type of chemical initialization coordinate file
XML configuration
cart_chemtracer_xml Path to XML file for parametrised chemtracers
cart_mecca_xml Path to XML file for MECCA tracers
cart_aerosol_xml Path to XML file for aerosol tracers
cart_modes_xml Path to XML file for modes
cart_pntSrc_xml Path to XML file for point sources
cart_diagnostics_xml Path to XML file for aerosol diagnostics
cart_emiss_xml_file Path to XML file for emission metadata
cart_ext_data_xml Path to XML file for metadata of datasets prescribing tracers
cart_coag_xml Path to XML file for coagulation processes
Atmospheric Aerosol
lart_aerosol Main switch for the treatment of atmospheric aerosol
iart_seasalt Treatment of sea salt aerosol interaction with radiation
iart_dust Treatment of mineral dust aerosol interaction with radiation
iart_anthro Treatment of anthropogenic aerosol
iart_fire Enables treatment of wildfire aerosol
iart_volcano Enables treatment of volcanic ash aerosol
iart_isorropia Treatment of aerosol gas partitioning
iart_nonsph Treatment of nonspherical particles
iart_pollen Treatment of pollen
iart_radioact Treatment of radioactive particles
cart_volcano_file Absolute path + filename of input file for volcanoes
cart_radioact_file Absolute path + filename of input for radioactive emissions
Feedback Processes
iart_aci_warm Nucleation of aerosol to cloud droplets
iart_aci_cold Nucleation of aerosol to cloud ice
iart_ari Direct interaction of aerosol with radiation