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Revision as of 10:59, 2 March 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. 0.5*dtime).
inwp_gscp 4 nwp_phy_nml Standard value is 1. Set this to 4 for aerosol-cloud-interactions within ICON-ART. Note, that you will still need to set iart_aci_warm and iart_aci_cold < 0 .
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 )

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




Name Default Value Description Details Dependencies
General Variables lart .FALSE. Main switch which enables the treatment of atmospheric aerosol and trace gases (the ART modules) Located in the namelist run_nml
cart_input_folder - Absolute path where input folder of ART initialization and external files are located.
iart_init_aero 0 Initialization of aerosol species.
0: Initialization with 0 
1: At this point climatological aerosol profiles may be included as standard initialization 
2: Initialization with fixed value different from 0.0_wp (e.g. using 10.0_wp) 
5: Set aerosol tracer initial values from file 
6: Read background climatology from aes-ham
iart_init_gas 0 Initialization of gaseous species.
0: Nothing to do here, tracers are initialized with 0.0_wp automatically 
1: At this point climatological gas profiles may be included as a standard initialization
4: Initializing chemical tracers using method given by .xml
5: Initializing from file
lart_diag_out .FALSE. Enable output of diagnostic fields. If this switch is set to .TRUE., diagnostic output fields are available. Set it to .FALSE. when facing memory problems. cart_diagnostics_xml
lart_pntSrc .FALSE. Enables addition of point sources for passive tracer. The sources are controled via cart_pntSrc_xml. cart_pntSrc_xml
lart_emiss_turbdiff .FALSE. Switch if emissions should be included to the turbulence scheme as surface flux condition
cart_io_suffix 'grid-nr' Specifies the grid specification in ART input file name convention. With default grid-number it is replaced by the four character string due to ICON parameter number_of_grid_used . Any other string can be included for each domain.
iart_modeshift 1 Doing mode shift (only temporary switch for debug)
0 = off 
1 = on
inwp_gscp 1 Cloud microphysics and precipitation.
1 : one_moment bulk microphysics by Doms and Schaettler(2004) and Seifert and Beheng(2006) 
2 : one-moment graupel scheme 
3 : two-moment cloud ice scheme of Koehler (2013) 
4 : two-moment bulk microphysics by Seifert and Beheng (2006) with prognostic cloud droplet number 
5 : two-moment bulk microphysics by Seifert and Beheng (2006) with prognostic cloud droplet number and some aerosol, CCN and IN tracers 
6 : two-moment bulk microphysics by Seifert and Beheng (2006) incorporating prognostic aerosol as CCN and IN from the ART extension. Note, that you will still need to set iart_aci_warm and iart_aci_cold 
9 : a simple Kessler-type warm rain scheme
irad_aero 2 Aerosols
0: No aerosol  
1: prognostic variable   
2: global constant   
3: externally specified 
5: Tanre aerosol climatology for iforcing = 3 (NWP) 
6: Tegen aerosol climatology for iforcing = 3 (NWP) .AND. itopo =1 
9: ART online aerosol radiation interaction, uses Tegen for aerosols not chosen to be represented in ART for iforcing = 3 (NWP) .AND. itopo =1 .AND. lart=TRUE .AND. iart_ari=1 
12: Perpetual background Kinne aerosols 
13: Tropospheric aerosol optical properties after S. Kinne 
14: Stratospheric aerosol optical properties 15: Tropospheric aerosols after S. Kinne and stratospheric aerosol optical properties 
18: Tropospheric background aerosols (Kinne) and stratospheric aerosols (CMIP6) + simple plumes 
19: Tropospheric background aerosols (Kinne), no stratospheric aerosols + simple plumes
Atmospheric Chemistry lart_chem .FALSE. Main switch to enable chemistry lart_chemtracer = .TRUE. OR lart_mecca = .TRUE.
lart_chemtracer .FALSE. Switch for chemical tracer processes cart_chemtracer_xml
lart_mecca .FALSE. Enables the computation of full chemistry via the MECCA package. cart_mecca_xml
lart_psc .FALSE. Switch if polar stratospheric clouds should be calculated
cart_vortex_init_date - Date of vortex initialization
cart_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 chemistry 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 (GRIB2 meta data)
cart_emiss_xml_file - Path and file name of the xml files 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 .FALSE. Main switch for the treatment of atmospheric aerosol cart_aerosol_xml
iart_seasalt 0 Treatment of sea salt aerosol
0: No treatment.
1: Initialization of seasalt emission. Add 6 to iart_ntracer.
2: A second parameterization is used for the seasalt emission. Add 6 to iart_ntracer.
iart_dust 0 Treatment of mineral dust aerosol
0: No treatment.
1: Initialization of mineral dust aerosol (Vogel et al. 2006).
2: Simplified version of emission fluxes of mineral dust aerosol (Vogel et al. 2006).
iart_anthro 0 Treatment of anthropogenic aerosol
0: No treatment.
1: With the anthropogenic aerosol.
iart_fire 0 Treatment of wildfire aerosol
0: Nothing to do, no biomass burning emissions
1: Initialization of biomass burning tracer data
iart_volcano 0 Treatment of volcanic ash aerosol
0: No treatment.
1: 1-moment treatment. Add 6 to iart ntracer.
2: 2-moment treatment. Add 6 to iart_ntracer.
iart_nonsph 0 Treatment of nonspherical particles
0: USE Mie values
1: Ellipsoid mixture
iart_pollen 0 Treatment of pollen
0: No treatment
1: Initialization of pollen tracer data
iart_radioact 0 Treatment of radioactive particles
0: No treatment.
1: As described in the ICON-ART technical documentation. An input file has to be specified via cart_radioact_file. Add 9 to iart_ntracer.
Feedback Processes iart_aci_warm 0 Nucleation of aerosol to cloud droplets
0: Constant cloud droplet number inwp_gscp=4
1: Nucleation Warm ART
iart_aci_cold 0 Nucleation of aerosol to cloud ice
0: Nucleation originial 2-moment scheme (1,2,3,4,5): Nucleation Cold ART
6: With tracking of activated dust
7: With prognostic dust as input and relaxation of activated dust
iart_ari 0 Direct interaction of aerosol with radiation
0: No radiation feedback with ART aerosols
1: Turn on radiation feedback with ART aerosols (ASH or DUST). Set irad_aero = 9 in radiation_nml
Emissions cart_volcano_file - Absolute path + filename of input file for volcanoes
cart_radioact_file - Absolute path + filename of input for radioactive emissions
Online emission module See oem namelist