CCPP Technical Documentation

• 1. CCPP Overview
  • 1.1. How to Use this Document
• 2. CCPP-Compliant Physics Parameterizations
  • 2.1. General Rules
  • 2.2. Metadata Table Rules
    • 2.2.1. ccpp-table-properties
    • 2.2.2. ccpp-arg-table
  • 2.3. Input/output Variable (argument) Rules
  • 2.4. Coding Rules
  • 2.5. Parallel Programming Rules
  • 2.6. Scientific Documentation Rules
    • 2.6.1. Doxygen Comments and Commands
    • 2.6.2. Doxygen Documentation Style
    • 2.6.3. Doxygen Configuration
    • 2.6.4. Including metadata information
    • 2.6.5. Using Doxygen
• 3. CCPP Configuration and Build Options
• 4. Constructing Suites
  • 4.1. Suite Definition File
    • 4.1.1. Groups
    • 4.1.2. Subcycling
    • 4.1.3. Order of Schemes
  • 4.2. Interstitial Schemes
  • 4.3. SDF Examples
    • 4.3.1. Simplest Case: Single Group and no Subcycling
    • 4.3.2. Case with Multiple Groups
    • 4.3.3. Case with Subcycling
    • 4.3.4. GFS v16beta Suite
• 5. Suite and Group Caps
  • 5.1. Overview
  • 5.2. Automatic unit conversions
• 6. Host Side Coding
  • 6.1. Variable Requirements on the Host Model Side
  • 6.2. Metadata for Variable in the Host Model
    • 6.2.1. Active Attribute
  • 6.3. CCPP Variables in the SCM and UFS Atmosphere Host Models
  • 6.4. CCPP API
    • 6.4.1. Data Structure to Transfer Variables between Dynamics and Physics
    • 6.4.2. Initializing and Finalizing the CCPP
    • 6.4.3. Running the Physics
    • 6.4.4. Initializing and Finalizing the Physics
  • 6.5. Host Caps
    • 6.5.1. SCM Host Cap
    • 6.5.2. UFS Atmosphere Host Cap