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The Community Climate System Model, CCSM, is a parallel climate model consisting of four parallel geophysical component models (atmosphere, land, ocean, and sea ice) that exchange boundary data periodically through a parallel coupler component. It is a freely available community model developed by researchers funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and maintained at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. CCSM targets a wide variety of computing platforms, ranging from workstations to the largest DOE, NASA, and NSF supercomputers.
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This work has been coauthored by a contractor of the US government under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, and was partially sponsored by the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, both in the Office of Science, US Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC. Accordingly, the US government retains a nonexclusive, royalty free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. This work used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, located in the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725, and of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
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Worley, P.H., Vertenstein, M., Craig, A.P. (2011). Community Climate System Model. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_376
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