Introduction

Prescribing Transient Urban Albedo in CESM (CESM-TranUrbAlb)

• Paper “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 Data

  • Presentation: 29th CESM Workshop, 12th ICUC

• CESM-TranUrbAlb User Guide

Representing Urban LCZ Land Cover in CESM (CESM-LCZ)

• Paper “Enhancing Global-Scale Urban Land Cover Representation Using Local Climate Zones in the Community Earth System Model”

  • GitHub Repository

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

• CESM-LCZ User Guide

Modeling Urban Traffic Heat Flux in CESM

• Paper

  • GitHub Repository

  • Presentation: 30th CESM Workshop

• CESM-Traffic User Guide

Coupling WRF and CTSM (WRF-CTSM)

• Paper

  • GitHub Repository

• 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

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