Assessing the scales in numerical weather and climate predictions: will exascale be the rescue?

P Neumann, P Düben, P Adamidis… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We discuss scientific features and computational performance of kilometre-scale global
weather and climate simulations, considering the Icosahedral Non-hydrostatic (ICON) model …

Large eddy simulation using the general circulation model ICON

A Dipankar, B Stevens, R Heinze… - Journal of Advances …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic) is a unified modeling system for global numerical
weather prediction (NWP) and climate studies. Validation of its dynamical core against a test …

ICON‐O: The Ocean Component of the ICON Earth System Model—Global Simulation Characteristics and Local Telescoping Capability

P Korn, N Brüggemann, JH Jungclaus… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the ocean general circulation model Icosahedral Nonhydrostatic Weather and
Climate Model (ICON‐O) of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, which forms the ocean …

ICON‐A, the atmosphere component of the ICON earth system model: II. Model evaluation

T Crueger, MA Giorgetta, R Brokopf… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the new icosahedral nonhydrostatic atmospheric (ICON‐A) general circulation
model of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology that is flexible to be run at grid spacings …

Physically constrained stochastic shallow convection in realistic kilometer‐scale simulations

M Sakradzija, D Klocke - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A new configuration of a parameterization for shallow convection in the Icosahedral
Nonhydrostatic Model (ICON) is described and tested on a single realistic test case. As a test …

Outcomes and challenges of global high-resolution non-hydrostatic atmospheric simulations using the K computer

M Satoh, H Tomita, H Yashiro, Y Kajikawa… - Progress in Earth and …, 2017 - Springer
This article reviews the major outcomes of a 5-year (2011–2016) project using the K
computer to perform global numerical atmospheric simulations based on the non-hydrostatic …

Nonhydrostatic icosahedral atmospheric model (NICAM) for global cloud resolving simulations

M Satoh, T Matsuno, H Tomita, H Miura… - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
A new type of ultra-high resolution atmospheric global circulation model is developed. The
new model is designed to perform “cloud resolving simulations” by directly calculating deep …

ICON‐A, the atmosphere component of the ICON earth system model: I. Model description

MA Giorgetta, R Brokopf, T Crueger… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ICON‐A is the new icosahedral nonhydrostatic (ICON) atmospheric general circulation
model in a configuration using the Max Planck Institute physics package, which originates …

Large‐eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: A comprehensive evaluation

R Heinze, A Dipankar, CC Henken… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐eddy simulations (LES) with the new ICOsahedral Non‐hydrostatic atmosphere
model (ICON) covering Germany are evaluated for four days in spring 2013 using …

Parallelization and Performance of the NIM Weather Model on CPU, GPU, and MIC Processors

M Govett, J Rosinski, J Middlecoff… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
The design and performance of the Non-Hydrostatic Icosahedral Model (NIM) global
weather prediction model is described. NIM is a dynamical core designed to run on central …