New functionalities¶
Prescribing Transient Urban Albedo in CESM (CESM-TranUrbAlb)¶
Sun, Y., et al. (2024). Improving Urban Climate Adaptation Modelling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Through Transient Urban Surface Albedo Representation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16(12), e2024MS004380. 10.1029/2024MS004380
(Open Access) Simulation Input and Output Data & Job Scripts
Presentation: 29th CESM Workshop, 12th ICUC
Representing Urban LCZ Land Cover in CESM (CESM-LCZ)¶
Sun, Y., et al. (2025). Enhancing Global-Scale Urban Land Cover Representation Using Local Climate Zones in the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17(11), e2025MS004934. 10.1029/2025MS004934
Modeling Urban Traffic Heat Flux in CESM (CESM-Traffic)¶
Sun, Y., et al. (2026). Modeling urban traffic heat flux in the Community Earth System Model: Formulation and validation for two test sites.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2025MS005435 (accepted). 10.31223/X5ZX72
Presentation: 30th CESM Workshop, EGU26
Coupling WRF and CTSM (WRF-CTSM)¶
Preprint “Advancing CLMU for regional climate simulations through WRF coupling: intercomparison with NOAH–SLUCM.” 10.31223/X5MT9P
Presentation: CESM 2026 Winter Group Meeting
Applications¶
WRF-CTSM ＋ TranUrbAlb¶
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Transient Urban Land Representation¶
Support¶
Useful Links¶
GitHub Repository
User Guide
Tutorial
WRF-CTSM: Using CTSM with WRF, WRF-CTSM on the SIGMA2 HPC
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