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DALES
DALES is a large-eddy simulation code designed for studies of the physics of the atmospheric boundary layer, including convective and stable boundary layers as well as cloudy boundary layers.
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What DALES can do for you
DALES - Dutch Atmospheric Large Eddy Simulation
Documentation
The following documents are included in the DALES repository (but are not fully up to date):
- User manual
- Documentation of the configuration options Namoptions.pdf
- readme.pdf
- INSTALL.md contains installation instructions
- CHANGELOG.md documents the changes between versions
- The DALES Wiki contains Installation instructions for various systems and notes for visualizing and processing the model output
License
DALES is made available under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3, see the file COPYING for details.
References
Formulation of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) and overview of its applications, T. Heus et al, Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 415-444, 2010
Ouwersloot, H.G., Moene, A.F., Attema, J.J. et al. Large-Eddy Simulation Comparison of Neutral Flow Over a Canopy: Sensitivities to Physical and Numerical Conditions, and Similarity to Other Representations. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 162, 71–89 (2017)
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Journal articles
11- 1.Cloud Botany: Shallow Cumulus Clouds in an Ensemble of Idealized Large‐Domain Large‐Eddy Simulations of the TradesAuthor(s): Fredrik Jansson, Martin Janssens, Johanna H. Grönqvist, A. Pier Siebesma, Franziska Glassmeier, Jisk Attema, Victor Azizi, Masaki Satoh, Yousuke Sato, Hauke Schulz, Tobias KöllingPublished in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 202310.1029/2023ms003796
- 2.Clouds and Convective Self‐Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium SimulationsAuthor(s): Allison A. Wing, Catherine L. Stauffer, Tobias Becker, Kevin A. Reed, Min-Seop Ahn, Nathan P. Arnold, Sandrine Bony, Mark Branson, George H. Bryan, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Stephan R. De Roode, Kulkarni Gayatri, Cathy Hohenegger, I-Kuan Hu, Fredrik Jansson, Todd R. Jones, Marat Khairoutdinov, Daehyun Kim, Zane K. Martin, Shuhei Matsugishi, Brian Medeiros, Hiroaki Miura, Yumin Moon, Sebastian K. Müller, Tomoki Ohno, Max Popp, Thara Prabhakaran, David Randall, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Nicolas Rochetin, Romain Roehrig, David M. Romps, James H. Ruppert, Masaki Satoh, Levi G. Silvers, Martin S. Singh, Bjorn Stevens, Lorenzo Tomassini, Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Shuguang Wang, Ming ZhaoPublished in 202010.1029/2020ms002138
- 3.Intercomparison of Large-Eddy Simulations of the Antarctic Boundary Layer for Very Stable StratificationAuthor(s): Fleur Couvreux, Eric Bazile, Quentin Rodier, Björn Maronga, Georgios Matheou, Maria J. Chinita, John Edwards, Bart J. H. van Stratum, Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Jing Huang, Arnold F. Moene, Anning Cheng, Vladimir Fuka, Sukanta Basu, Elie Bou-Zeid, Guylaine Canut, Etienne VignonPublished in Boundary-Layer Meteorology by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in 2020, page: 369-40010.1007/s10546-020-00539-4
- 4.Large-Eddy Simulations of EUCLIPSE–GASS Lagrangian Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transitions: Mean State, Turbulence, and DecouplingAuthor(s): Stephan R. de Roode, Irina Sandu, Johan J. van der Dussen, Andrew S. Ackerman, Peter Blossey, Dorota Jarecka, Adrian Lock, A. Pier Siebesma, Bjorn StevensPublished in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences by American Meteorological Society in 2016, page: 2485-250810.1175/jas-d-15-0215.1
- 5.Parameterizations for convective transport in various cloud-topped boundary layersAuthor(s): M. Sikma, H. G. OuwerslootPublished in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by Copernicus GmbH in 2015, page: 10399-1041010.5194/acp-15-10399-2015
- 6.Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES intercomparisonAuthor(s): Peter N. Blossey, Christopher S. Bretherton, Minghua Zhang, Anning Cheng, Satoshi Endo, Thijs Heus, Yangang Liu, Adrian P. Lock, Stephan R. de Roode, Kuan‐Man XuPublished in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013, page: 234-25810.1002/jame.20025
- 7.CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column modelsAuthor(s): Minghua Zhang, Christopher S. Bretherton, Peter N. Blossey, Phillip H. Austin, Julio T. Bacmeister, Sandrine Bony, Florent Brient, Suvarchal K. Cheedela, Anning Cheng, Anthony D. Del Genio, Stephan R. De Roode, Satoshi Endo, Charmaine N. Franklin, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, Cecile Hannay, Thijs Heus, Francesco Alessandro Isotta, Jean‐Louis Dufresne, In‐Sik Kang, Hideaki Kawai, Martin Köhler, Vincent E. Larson, Yangang Liu, Adrian P. Lock, Ulrike Lohmann, Marat F. Khairoutdinov, Andrea M. Molod, Roel A. J. Neggers, Philip Rasch, Irina Sandu, Ryan Senkbeil, A. Pier Siebesma, Colombe Siegenthaler‐Le Drian, Bjorn Stevens, Max J. Suarez, Kuan‐Man Xu, Knut von Salzen, Mark J. Webb, Audrey Wolf, Ming ZhaoPublished in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013, page: 826-84210.1002/2013ms000246
- 8.The GASS/EUCLIPSE model intercomparison of the stratocumulus transition as observed during ASTEX: LES resultsAuthor(s): J. J. van der Dussen, S. R. de Roode, A. S. Ackerman, P. N. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton, M. J. Kurowski, A. P. Lock, R. A. J. Neggers, I. Sandu, A. P. SiebesmaPublished in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2013, page: 483-49910.1002/jame.20033
- 9.Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICOAuthor(s): Margreet C vanZanten, Bjorn Stevens, Louise Nuijens, A Pier Siebesma, A. S. Ackerman, F. Burnet, A. Cheng, F. Couvreux, H. Jiang, M. Khairoutdinov, Y. Kogan, D. C. Lewellen, D. Mechem, K. Nakamura, A. Noda, B. J. Shipway, J. Slawinska, S. Wang, A. WyszogrodzkiPublished in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2011, page: n/a-n/a10.1029/2011ms000056
- 10.An Intercomparison of Large-Eddy Simulations of the Stable Boundary LayerAuthor(s): Robert J. Beare, Malcolm K. Macvean, Albert A. M. Holtslag, Joan Cuxart, Igor Esau, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Maria A. Jimenez, Marat Khairoutdinov, Branko Kosovic, David Lewellen, Thomas S. Lund, Julie K. Lundquist, Anne Mccabe, Arnold F. Moene, Yign Noh, Siegfried Raasch, Peter SullivanPublished in Boundary-Layer Meteorology by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in 2006, page: 247-27210.1007/s10546-004-2820-6
- 11.A Large Eddy Simulation Intercomparison Study of Shallow Cumulus ConvectionAuthor(s): A. Pier Siebesma, Christopher S. Bretherton, Andrew Brown, Andreas Chlond, Joan Cuxart, Peter G. Duynkerke, Hongli Jiang, Marat Khairoutdinov, David Lewellen, Chin-Hoh Moeng, Enrique Sanchez, Bjorn Stevens, David E. StevensPublished in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences by American Meteorological Society in 2003, page: 1201-121910.1175/1520-0469(2003)60<1201:alesis>2.0.co;2
Contributors
AM
Arnold Moene
BVS
Bart Van Stratum
Wageningen University and Research
CB
Cees Beets
CVH
Chiel Van Heerwaarden
FJ
Fredrik Jansson
GVDO
Gijs Van Den Oord
Netherlands eScience Center
HC
Hans Cuijpers
HJ
Harm Jonker
HO
Huug Ouwersloot
JC
Jan Chylik
JA
Netherlands eScience Center
JVDD
Johan Van Der Dussen
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