Introduction

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

• GitHub Repository

• (Open Access) Simulation Input and Output Data & Job Scripts

• Presentation: 29th CESM Workshop, 12th ICUC

• CESM-TranUrbAlb User Guide

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

  • GitHub Repository

  • (Open Access) Simulation Input and Output Data & Job Scripts

  • Presentation: 21st AOGS, CESM 2025 Winter Group Meeting, AMS 2026

• CESM-LCZ User Guide

Modeling Urban Traffic Heat Flux in CESM (CESM-Traffic)

• Preprint “Modeling urban traffic heat flux in the Community Earth System Model.” 10.31223/X5ZX72

  • GitHub Repository

  • Presentation: 30th CESM Workshop

• CESM-Traffic User Guide

Coupling WRF and CTSM (WRF-CTSM)

• Preprint “Advancing CLMU for regional climate simulations through WRF coupling: intercomparison with NOAH–SLUCM.” 10.31223/X5MT9P

  • GitHub Repository

  • Presentation:

• WRF-CTSM User Guide

Support

Useful Links

• GitHub Repository

  • WRF

  • CTSM

• User Guide

  • WPS User Guide

  • WRF User Guide

  • CTSM User Guide

  • CTSM-LILAC user guide

• WRF-CTSM Tutorial

  • Using CTSM with WRF

  • WRF-CTSM on the SIGMA2 HPC

• Forum

  • WRF & MPAS-A Support Forum

  • DiscussCESM Forums

Inquiry For Help & Collaboration

• Please create an Issues and Discussions. The author will try to respond as soon as possible.