Frequently asked questions

• 1. Low-key discussion forum
• 2. Technical FAQ
  • 2.1. How do I check the timing and cost of my experiments?
  • 2.2. My model experiment/simulation crashes and I don’t know why!
  • 2.3. How do I know how many cpu hours I have left?
  • 2.4. How do I know how much storage space I am using?
  • 2.5. Manage externals
  • 2.6. Creating a case
• 3. Aerosol FAQ
  • 3.1. How can I get mass and number concentration diagnostics via AeroTab and postprocessing?
  • 3.2. Where is the example script which produces with AeroTab the tables necessary to postprocess diagnostics for eg mass and number below a certain diameter?
  • 3.3. Where is the documentation for doing an EasyAerosol simulation? Compset, input, etc.
  • 3.4. What is needed to add a tracer to the NorESM2 model?
  • 3.5. What is the hygroscopicity for different species in NorESM2, expressed as kappa?
  • 3.6. Is there enhancement of absorption due to organic coating of BC or Organic aerosols in NorESM2 (AeroTab6)?
  • 3.7. Which types of AeroTab tables are read in when running NorESM2?
  • 3.8. How to invoke and activate the different levels of aerosol diagnostics in a NorESM model run?
• 4. Post-processing and plotting FAQ
  • 4.1. NorESM2-LM CMIP6 experiments with different physics
  • 4.2. Different sea-ice and ocean grid
  • 4.3. Very large ocean cell thickness in BLOM (the ocean component in NorESM2)
  • 4.4. Weights and area information for the ocean component BLOM
  • 4.5. The vertical coordinate in BLOM
  • 4.6. The surface variables in BLOM
  • 4.7. What is the ocean density value used to convert from kg/s to Sverdrups?
  • 4.8. Why is the depth-integrated vertical transport not equal to zero?
  • 4.9. Is there a tool for creating time series files from the raw NorESM output?
  • 4.10. How do I fix the time issue in monthly files (h0-files)?:
  • 4.11. How do I compute a weighted average?
• 5. Reporting CMIP6 data errors
  • 5.1. Data error(s)
  • 5.2. Data problem(s)