2023 May Release

202305 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Please see the release notes for information specific to this release.

2022 October Release (branch: main)

202210 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Please see the release notes for information specific to this release.

2022.04 (branch: dev/gfdl)

2022.04 release of GFDL_atmos_cubed_sphere corresponding with the 2022.04 releases of FMS and atmos_drivers.

This release includes the following:

• Release of stand-alone solo_core functionality with simple physics.
• Updated GFDL Microphysics, used for real-time 2021 C-SHiELD and T-SHiELD. (L Zhou)
• Merges numerous updates from dev/emc.
• Leverage DA functionality from UFS with additional changes (M Tong).
• Updates to use the latest FMS release, including fms2_io.
• Adds license header to missing files and fixes typo in header.
• Fixes a bug where long_name and units attributes were not being captured in restart files.
• Adds the ability to specify prefix and directory when reading and writing restarts.
• The planetary radius and rotation rate are now re-scalable by a namelist parameter (small_earth_scale) instead of using exclusively the hard-coded FMS constant.
• Removes obsolete driver/SHiELD files.
• Removes unused function fv_diagnostics::max_vorticity_hy1.
• Removes avec timer remnants.
• Removes old style namelist read in favor of read from internal character variable.
• Adds option for a mean wind.
• Addresses GNU warnings.

FV3-202204-public

202204 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Please see the release notes for information specific to this release.

2021 July Release (branch: master)

202107 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Please see the release notes for information specific to this release.

2021 January Release (branch: master)

202101 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Please see the release notes for information specific to this release.

GFDL 2020.04 Release (branch: dev/gfdl)

2020.04 tag release of the FV3 dynamical core for the GFDL climate modeling system (AM4+/CM4+/ESM4+/SPEAR/etc.).

This release removes the mpp_node reference from tools/fv_mp_mod.F90.

Requires the 2020.04, 2020.03, 2020.02, or 2019.01.03 Release of the GFDL FMS Infrastructure.

GFDL 2020.03 Release (branch: dev/gfdl)

2020.03 tag release of the FV3 dynamical core for the GFDL climate modeling system (AM4+/CM4+/ESM4+/SPEAR/etc.).

Contains minor updates in diagnostics, climate nudging, and for gcc compatibility.

Requires the 2020.03, 2020.02, or 2019.01.03 Release of the GFDL FMS Infrastructure.

GFDL 2020.02 Release (branch: dev/gfdl)

2020.02 tag release of the FV3 dynamical core for the GFDL climate modeling system (AM4+/CM4+/ESM4+/SPEAR/etc.).

This release contains a re-write of FV3 infrastructure - in particular, restart functionality, model control, and enhanced use of derived data types to hold common data elements.

Support for new nesting capability is included with this release and requires the 2020.02 Release of the GFDL FMS Infrastructure.

See the Release Notes for more information.

2019 December Release (branch: master)

201912 release of the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere Dynamical Core (FV3) from the Weather and Climate Dynamics Group at GFDL.

Support for new nesting capability is included with this release and requires the 2020.02 Release of the GFDL FMS Infrastructure