New method for model coupling using Stampi; Application to the coupling of Atmosphere Model (MM5) and Land-Surface Model (SOLVEG)

Nagai, Haruyasu  

A new method to couple atmosphere and land-surface models using the massage passing interface (MPI) was proposed to develop a atmosphere-land model for studies on heat, water, and material exchanges at around the land surface. A non-hydrostatic atmospheric dynamic model of Pennsylvania State University and National Center for Atmospheric Research (PUS/NCAR-MM5) and a detailed land surface model (SOLVEG) including the surface-layer atmosphere, soil, and vegetation developed at Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) are used as the atmosphere and land-surface models, respectively. Concerning the MPI, a message passing library named Stampi developed at JAERI that can be used between different parallel computers is used. The models are coupled by exchanging calculation results by using MPI on their independent parallel calculations.