Progressive-disclosure skill for the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM), a CESM-derived coupled Earth-system model with NorESM-specific ocean (BLOM/MICOM), biogeochemistry (HAMOCC/iHAMOCC), and aerosols (OsloAero).
Skill author: Koutian Wu (ktwu01@gmail.com) Skill version: 0.1.0-scaffold
⚠️ Disclaimer — please read before using this skill. This skill is not a gold-standard reference. It is a helper that lowers the barrier for new users to get their hands dirty with the model. AI agents (and the humans drafting this material) make mistakes; commands, file paths, namelist options, and physics explanations here can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Always cross-check with the official model documentation, the source code, and a human expert before trusting any output for research, publication, or operational use.
A guide to NorESM as a CESM-derived superproject: the manage_externals bootstrap, Externals.cfg choices, NorESM-specific compsets, and the science components that distinguish NorESM from upstream CESM (BLOM ocean, HAMOCC BGC, OsloAero).
Scaffold. Layout verified against the cloned NorESMhub/NorESM superproject. Operational depth being filled in.
Gold-standard references for NorESM (use these to cross-check anything in this skill):
- NorESMhub/NorESM superproject: https://github.com/NorESMhub/NorESM
- NorESM documentation: https://noresm-docs.readthedocs.io/
- BLOM ocean model: https://github.com/NorESMhub/BLOM
- iHAMOCC biogeochemistry: https://github.com/NorESMhub/BLOM (under
hamocc/)
This scaffold exists only because of the work of other people, and any value it has is borrowed from theirs.
- The NorESM developer community (NORCE, Bjerknes Centre, MET Norway, Univ. of Oslo, Univ. of Bergen, NERSC, and partners) for building and maintaining NorESMhub/NorESM, the NorESM-specific ocean (BLOM/MICOM), biogeochemistry (HAMOCC/iHAMOCC), and aerosol module (OsloAero).
- The NSF NCAR / ESCOMP community for the upstream CESM framework that
NorESM extends, plus the
manage_externalsandExternals.cfgbootstrapping pattern this skill teaches. - Zesen Huang for laps-skill, the progressive-disclosure layout this repo borrows.
Any errors, oversimplifications, or out-of-date claims in this skill are the skill author's responsibility, not the upstream community's. This is a scaffold; operational depth is being filled in iteratively.
MIT (skill content). NorESM has its own license stacked on top of CESM-derived parts; see upstream.