Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2281-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2281-2014
Development and technical paper
 | 
09 Oct 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 09 Oct 2014

C-Coupler1: a Chinese community coupler for Earth system modeling

L. Liu, G. Yang, B. Wang, C. Zhang, R. Li, Z. Zhang, Y. Ji, and L. Wang

Abstract. A coupler is a fundamental software tool for Earth system modeling. Targeting the requirements of 3-D coupling, high-level sharing, common model software platform and better parallel performance, we started to design and develop a community coupler (C-Coupler) from 2010 in China, and finished the first version (C-Coupler1) recently. C-Coupler1 is a parallel 3-D coupler that achieves the same (bitwise-identical) results with any number of processes. Guided by the general design of C-Coupler, C-Coupler1 enables various component models and various coupled models to be integrated on the same common model software platform to achieve a higher-level sharing, where the component models and the coupler can keep the same code version in various model configurations for simulation. Moreover, it provides the C-Coupler platform, a uniform runtime environment for operating various kinds of model simulations in the same manner. C-Coupler1 is ready for Earth system modeling, and it is publicly available. In China, there are more and more modeling groups using C-Coupler1 for the development and application of models.

Download