Software Requirements
Fortran 90/95 and C compiler
MPI or OpenMP libraries
netCDF4 library linked with HDF5 and zip libraries and extended by the Fortran netCDF package (The netCDF4 package comes with the programs ncdump and nccopy)
UNIX utilities: make, ksh, uname, sed, awk, wget, etc.
For post-processing: Climate Data Operators (CDO) and netCDF Operators (NCO)
An ICON binary
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SPICE uses netCDF I/O of ICON-CLM |
Create an ICON Binary
The ICON source code does not come with SPICE because it is not distributed by the CLM-Community. Copy the latest ICON source code from the ICON download page to your working directory. If you do not yet have access, i.e. no private license, go to the License page first.
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$ xz -d icon-2.6.5.tar.xz $ tar -xzf icon-2.6.5.tar $ cd icon-2.6.5 |
When successful, patch the code by using this patch. Moreover, retrieve this configure wrapper dedicated for the DKRZ machine. To download both, patch and wrapper, copy the file 🔑 icon-2.6.5.patch.tgzfrom the CLM-community wiki pages, unpack it and read the README file. Copy the wrapper to the subdirectory ‘config/clm/’. Then create your build directory and compile ICON:
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$ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../config/clm/levante.intel-2021.5.0_ecrad_2.6.5_optimfpe $ LANG=en_US.utf8 $ make -j 8 |
Install SPICE
1 Get the source code
Goto https://hcdc.hereon.de/clm-community/wiki/wg-suptech/icon-clm/spice/ and download the latest revision, i.e. tag (e.g. 2.1 in the following), as tarball, copy spice-v2.1.tar.gz to your computing system and proceed like so:
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/data
$ ./get_spice_rcm.sh |
A directory rcm is created holding the necessary data to run the ICON-CLM test experiment.
3 Configure SPICE and run the test examples
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Call the script
at DWD Nec like so
or at CSCS Daint like so
or at IMS cyclone like so
This will create two directories including the basic scripts. You find them under Run the test examplesThere are two tests, one for testing ICON with GCM or reanalysis data as initial and boundary conditions ( Before you start the experiment look for the following environment variables in the
Now you should be ready to start the first experiment:
This experiment is a two month simulation, 50 km / Europe / driven bei ERAInterim After successful completion start the second one:
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3.1 Create the supplemental programs a. Create the fortran library |
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/src/fortran-csv-lib
$ cp LOCAL/Fopts.dkrz-levante Fopts |
Adopt the Fopts file to your system and type:
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$ make |
After successful compilation you find the libcsv in ${SPDIR}/src/fortran-csv-lib/lib.
b. Create the cfu executable
The climate fortran utilities contain several functions needed in the runtime environment.
Choose a Fopts file in the directory LOCAL and copy it to the base directory of libcsv (here we choose Fopts.dkrz-levante as an example):
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/src/cfu
$ cp LOCAL/Fopts.dkrz-levante Fopts |
Adopt the Fopts file to your system and type:
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$ make |
After successful compilation you find the cfu executable in ${SPDIR}/src/cfu/bin
c. Create additional conversion programs
The programs are used to convert COSMO-CLM caf-files to ICON-CLM compatible caf-file (ccaf2icaf) and to correct the netCDF output of ICON-CLM (correct_cf).
Choose a Fopts file in the directory LOCAL and copy it to the base directory of libcsv (here we choose Fopts.dkrz-levante as an example):
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/src/utils
$ cp LOCAL/Fopts.dkrz-levante Fopts |
Adopt the Fopts file to your system and type:
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$ make |
After successful compilation you find the executables ccaf2icaf and correct_cf in ${SPDIR}/src/utils/bin
3.2 Configure SPICE on your computing system
If you intent not to run ICON-CLM at DKRZ or DWD you have to perform some adoptions. First, find out which batch system comes nearest to your system. DKRZ uses SLURM (i.e. SBATCH commands) and DWD uses the Portable Batch Commands (i.e. PBS commands). Lets suppose as an example in the following that you use SLURM on your computing system and therefore you use "dkrz" as a template.
a. Change into the configure_scripts directory:
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/configure_scripts |
b. Adopt the dkrz part in the system_settings.tmpl file to the settings on your system.
c. Run the config.sh script:
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/configure_scripts
$ ./config.sh -s dkrz-levante |
This will create two directories including the basic scripts. You find them under ${SPDIR}/chain/gcm2icon/sp001 and ${SPDIR}/chain/icon2icon/sp002
Now comes the hardest part: you have to dive into the scripts in the directories and adopt the scripts to your system (e.g. modify batch commands, program calls etc.). Start with adopting the experiment ${SPDIR}/chain/gcm2icon/sp001 .
Run the test examples
There are two tests, one for testing ICON with GCM or reanalysis data as initial and boundary conditions (${SPDIR}/chain/gcm2icon/sp001) and one for testing ICON with coarse grid ICON data as initial and boundary conditions (${SPDIR}/chain/icon2icon/sp002). Actually sp001 creates the necessary input data for sp002.
SP001 is a two month simulation, 50 km / Europe / driven bei ERAInterim
SP002 This experiment is a two month simulation, 3km / region around Hamburg / driven by ICON output of sp001 .
Before you start the experiment look for the following environment variables in the job_settings of and adopt them to your needs.
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PROJECT_ACCOUNT= # your project account, if necessary on your system NOTIFICATION_ADDRESS= # your email of nofification address if you want to get information when your job crashes or finishes BINARY_ICON= # ICON executable including full path ECRADDIR= # path to the ECRAD data directory, if you plan to use the ECRAD radiation scheme |
Adopt the input directory of the ERAInterim data
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GCM_DATADIR=/pool/data/CLMcom/CCLM/reanalyses/ERAInterim |
and probably the de-tar part in prep.job.sh.
Now you should be ready to start the first experiment:
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/chain/gcm2icon/sp001
$ ./subchain start |
In SPICE the scripts are called in the order prep.job.sh, conv2icon.job.sh, icon.job.sh, arch.job.sh, post.job.sh. If your job crashes in one of the scripts you do not have to run all the successful scripts again, but can start this script again after you made the corrections by submitting the appropriate command from the following list:
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./subchain prep ./subchain conv2icon ./subchain icon noprep ./subchain arch ./subchain post |
After successful completion of the SP001 experiment adopt the scripts in SP002 and start this experiment:
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$ cd ${SPDIR}/chain/icon2icon/sp002
$ ./subchain start |
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