Component Manual

Detailed documentation for specific climt components.

Radiation & convection

RRTMG clouds — Using RRTMG radiation with cloud properties
Gray longwave radiation — Idealised gray LW and the Frierson (2006) optical depth
Emanuel convection — The Emanuel (1991) convection scheme
Dry convective adjustment — Conservative adjustment to the dry adiabat
Grid-scale condensation — Large-scale (stratiform) condensation and precipitation

Solar & idealised forcing

Solar insolation and zenith angle — BergerSolarInsolation and Instellation
Held–Suarez forcing — The Held & Suarez (1994) dynamical-core benchmark
DCMIP initial conditions — Analytic initial states for dynamical-core tests

Surface, ocean & land

LandMask — Setting land/sea/land-ice geography (area_type)
Sea ice and land ice — SeaIce, LandIce, the shared column solver, and the deprecated IceSheet
Slab ocean and heat transport — SlabSurface energy balance, prescribed q-flux, and Ekman transport
DataOcean — Prescribed (AMIP-style) sea-surface temperatures
BucketHydrology — One- and two-layer bucket land hydrology
SecondBEST — Modular intermediate-complexity BEST land surface model

Idealised / intermediate physics

SimplePhysics — Reed & Jablonowski (2012) simple-physics package

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Detailed documentation for specific climt components.

**Radiation & convection**

- [RRTMG clouds](rrtmg_clouds.qmd) — Using RRTMG radiation with cloud properties
- [Gray longwave radiation](gray_radiation.qmd) — Idealised gray LW and the Frierson (2006) optical depth
- [Emanuel convection](emanuel_convection.qmd) — The Emanuel (1991) convection scheme
- [Dry convective adjustment](dry_convective_adjustment.qmd) — Conservative adjustment to the dry adiabat
- [Grid-scale condensation](grid_scale_condensation.qmd) — Large-scale (stratiform) condensation and precipitation

**Solar & idealised forcing**

- [Solar insolation and zenith angle](insolation.qmd) — `BergerSolarInsolation` and `Instellation`
- [Held–Suarez forcing](held_suarez.qmd) — The Held & Suarez (1994) dynamical-core benchmark
- [DCMIP initial conditions](dcmip.qmd) — Analytic initial states for dynamical-core tests

**Surface, ocean & land**

- [LandMask](land_mask.qmd) — Setting land/sea/land-ice geography (`area_type`)
- [Sea ice and land ice](sea_land_ice.qmd) — `SeaIce`, `LandIce`, the shared column solver, and the deprecated `IceSheet`
- [Slab ocean and heat transport](slab_ocean.qmd) — `SlabSurface` energy balance, prescribed q-flux, and Ekman transport
- [DataOcean](data_ocean.qmd) — Prescribed (AMIP-style) sea-surface temperatures
- [BucketHydrology](bucket_hydrology.qmd) — One- and two-layer bucket land hydrology
- [SecondBEST](second_best.qmd) — Modular intermediate-complexity BEST land surface model

**Idealised / intermediate physics**

- [SimplePhysics](simple_physics.qmd) — Reed & Jablonowski (2012) simple-physics package