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| Brian E. J. Rose | Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences | University at Albany | brose@albany.edu
climlab
is a flexible engine for process-oriented climate modeling.
It is based on a very general concept of a model as a collection of individual,
interacting processes. climlab
defines a base class called Process
, which
can contain an arbitrarily complex tree of sub-processes (each also some
sub-class of Process
). Every climate process (radiative, dynamical,
physical, turbulent, convective, chemical, etc.) can be simulated as a stand-alone
process model given appropriate input, or as a sub-process of a more complex model.
New classes of model can easily be defined and run interactively by putting together an
appropriate collection of sub-processes.
Currently, climlab
has out-of-the-box support and documented examples for
Installing pre-built binaries with conda (Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows)
By far the simplest and recommended way to install ``climlab`` is using conda_
(which is the wonderful package manager that comes with `Anaconda Python`_).
You can install ``climlab`` and all its dependencies with::
conda install -c conda-forge climlab
Or (recommended) add ``conda-forge`` to your conda channels with::
conda config --add channels conda-forge
and then simply do::
conda install climlab
Binaries are available for OSX, Linux, and Windows.
Installing from source
Consult the documentation_ for detailed instructions.
.. conda: https://conda.io/docs/
.. Anaconda Python
: https://www.continuum.io/downloads
.. _pypi repository
: https://pypi.python.org
These are handled automatically if you install with conda_.
Required
- Python (currently testing on versions 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11)
- numpy
- scipy
- future
- pooch (for remote data access and caching)
- xarray (for data handling)
*climlab will still run on Python 2.7 on some systems but we are no longer supporting this*
Recommended for full functionality
Note that there is a bug in previous numba versions that caused a hanging condition in climlab under Python 3.
Full user manual is available here_.
A rich and up-to-date collection of example usage can be found in Brian Rose's online textbook
The Climate Laboratory
_.
Source notebooks for the tutorials in the docs
_ can be found in the climlab/docs/source/courseware/
directory of the source repo.
These are self-describing, and should run out-of-the-box once the package is installed, e.g:
jupyter notebook Insolation.ipynb
Version 0.8.1 (released May 2022)
A major refactor of the internals: all the Fortran code has been moved into external companion
packages climlab-rrtmg
, climlab-cam3-radiation
, and climlab-emanuel-convection
_.
Climlab is now (once again!) a pure Python package.
Builds of these helper packages are available through conda-forge and will be
automatically installed as dependencies by conda / mamba.
The climlab source repo also moved to https://github.com/climlab/climlab
There should be no breaking changes to the user-facing API.
The major motivation for this change was to (vastly) simplify the development
and testing of new-and-improved climlab internals (coming soon).
Version 0.7.13 (released February 2022) Maintenance release to support Python 3.10.
The `attrdict package`_ by `Brendan Curran-Johnson`_ has been removed from the dependencies since it is broken on Python 3.10 and no longer under development.
A modified version of the MIT-licensed attrdict source is now bundled internally with climlab. There are no changes to climlab's public API.
Version 0.7.12 (released May 2021) New feature: spectral output from RRTMG (accompanied by a new tutorial)
Version 0.7.11 (released May 2021)
Improvements to data file download and caching (outsourcing this to pooch
_)
Version 0.7.10 (released April 2021) Improvements to docs and build.
Version 0.7.9 (released December 2020) Bug fixes and doc improvements.
Version 0.7.8 (released December 2020) Bug fixes.
Version 0.7.7 (released October 2020) Bug fixes.
Version 0.7.6 (released January 2020) Bug fixes, Python 3.8 compatibility, improvements to build and docs.
Version 0.7.5 (released July 2019) Bug fixes and improvements to continuous integration
Version 0.7.4 (released June 2019) New flexible solver for 1D advection-diffusion processes on non-uniform grids, along with some bug fixes.
Version 0.7.3 (released April 2019) Bug fix and changes to continuous integration for Python 2.7 compatibility
Version 0.7.2 (released April 2019) Improvements to surface flux processes, a new data management strategy, and improved documentation.
Details:
- ``climlab.surface.LatentHeatFlux`` and ``climlab.surface.SensibleHeatFlux`` are now documented, more consistent with the climlab API, and have new optional ``resistance`` parameters to reduce the fluxes (e.g. for modeling stomatal resistance)
- ``climlab.surface.LatentHeatFlux`` now produces the diagnostic ``evaporation`` in kg/m2/s. ``climlab.convection.EmanuelConvection`` produces ``precipitation`` in the same units.
- The previous ``PRECIP`` diagnostic (mm/day) in ``climlab.convection.EmanuelConvection`` is removed. This is a BREAKING CHANGE.
- Data files have been removed from the climlab source repository. All data is now accessible remotely. climlab will attempt to download and cache data files upon first use.
- ``climlab.convection.ConvectiveAdjustement`` is now accelerated with ``numba`` if it is available (optional)
Version 0.7.1 (released January 2019)
Deeper xarray integration, include one breaking change to climlab.solar.orbital.OrbitalTable
, Python 3.7 compatibility, and minor enhancements.
Details:
- Removed ``climlab.utils.attr_dict.AttrDict`` and replaced with AttrDict package (a new dependency)
- Added ``xarray`` input and output capabilities for ``climlab.solar.insolation.daily_insolation()``
- ``climlab.solar.orbital.OrbitalTable`` and ``climlab.solar.orbital.long.OrbitalTable`` now return ``xarray.Dataset`` objects containing the orbital data.
- The ``lookup_parameter()`` method was removed in favor of using built-in xarray interpolation.
- New class ``climlab.process.ExternalForcing()`` for arbitrary externally defined tendencies for state variables.
- New input option ``ozone_file=None`` for radiation components, sets ozone to zero.
- Tested on Python 3.7. Builds will be available through conda-forge.
Version 0.7.0 (released July 2018) New functionality, improved documentation_, and a few breaking changes to the API.
Major new functionality includes `convective adjustment to the moist adiabat <http://climlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/climlab.convection.convadj.html>`_ and `moist EBMs with diffusion on moist static energy gradients <http://climlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/climlab.model.ebm.html>`_.
Details:
- ``climlab.convection.ConvectiveAdjustement`` now allows non-constant critical lapse rates, stored in input parameter ``adj_lapse_rate``.
- New switches to implement automatic adjustment to **dry** and **moist** adiabats (pseudoadiabat)
- ``climlab.EBM()`` and its daughter classes are significantly reorganized to better respect CLIMLAB principles:
- Essentially all the computations are done by subprocesses
- SW radiation is now handled by ``climlab.radiation.SimpleAbsorbedShortwave`` class
- Diffusion and its diagnostics now handled by ``climlab.dynamics.MeridionalHeatDiffusion`` class.
- Diffusivity can be altered at any time by the user, e.g. during timestepping
- Diffusivity input value ``K`` in class ``climlab.dynamics.MeridionalDiffusion`` is now specified in physical units of m2/s instead of (1/s). This is consistent with its parent class ``climlab.dynamics.Diffusion``.
- A new class ``climlab.dynamics.MeridionalMoistDiffusion`` for the moist EBM (diffusion down moist static energy gradient)
- Tests that require compiled code are now marked with ``pytest.mark.compiled`` for easy exclusion during local development
Under-the-hood changes include
- Internal changes to the timestepping; the ``compute()`` method of every subprocess is now called explicitly.
- ``compute()`` now always returns tendency dictionaries
Version 0.6.5 (released April 2018) Some improved documentation, associated with publication of a meta-description paper in JOSS.
Version 0.6.4 (released February 2018)
Some bug fixes and a new climlab.couple()
method to simplify creating complete models from components.
Version 0.6.3 (released February 2018) Under-the-hood improvements to the Fortran builds which enable successful builds on a wider variety of platforms (incluing Windows/Python3).
Version 0.6.2 (released February 2018) Introduces the Emanuel moist convection scheme, support for asynchonous coupling, and internal optimzations.
Version 0.6.1 (released January 2018)
Provides basic integration with xarray_
(convenience methods for converting climlab objects into xarray.DataArray
and xarray.Dataset
objects)
Version 0.6.0 (released December 2017) Provides full Python 3 compatibility, updated documentation, and minor enhancements and bug fixes.
Version 0.5.5 (released early April 2017) Finally provides easy binary distribution with conda_
Version 0.5.2 (released late March 2017)
Many under-the-hood improvements to the build procedure,
which should make it much easier to get climlab
installed on user machines.
Binary distribution with conda_ is coming soon!
Version 0.5 (released March 2017) Bug fixes and full functionality for the RRTMG radiation module, an improved common API for all radiation modules, and better documentation.
Version 0.4.2 (released January 2017) Introduces the RRTMG radiation scheme, a much-improved build process for the Fortran extension, and numerous enhancements and simplifications to the API.
Version 0.4 (released October 2016) Includes comprehensive documentation, an automated test suite, support for latitude-longitude grids, and numerous small enhancements and bug fixes.
Version 0.3 (released February 2016) Includes many internal changes and some backwards-incompatible changes (hopefully simplifications) to the public API. It also includes the CAM3 radiation module.
Version 0.2 (released January 2015) The package and its API was completely redesigned around a truly object-oriented modeling framework in January 2015.
It was used extensively for a graduate-level climate modeling course in Spring 2015:
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/brose/classes/ATM623_Spring2015/
Many more examples are found in the online lecture notes for that course:
http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/brian-rose/ClimateModeling_courseware/blob/master/index.ipynb
Version 0.1 The first versions of the code and notebooks were originally developed in winter / spring 2014 in support of an undergraduate course at the University at Albany.
See the original course webpage at
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/brose/classes/ENV480_Spring2014/
The documentation_ was first created by Moritz Kreuzer (Potsdam Institut for Climate Impact Research) as part of a thesis project in Spring 2016.
.. _documentation: http://climlab.readthedocs.io
.. _xarray: http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/
.. pooch: https://www.fatiando.org/pooch/latest/index.html
.. tutorials in the docs
: https://climlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
.. here: http://climlab.readthedocs.io
.. The Climate Laboratory
: https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/
.. attrdict package
: https://github.com/bcj/AttrDict
.. Brendan Curran-Johnson
: https://github.com/bcj
Users are strongly encouraged to submit bug reports and feature requests on github at https://github.com/climlab/climlab
This code is freely available under the MIT license. See the accompanying LICENSE file.
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.. climlab-rrtmg
: https://github.com/climlab/climlab-rrtmg
.. climlab-cam3-radiation
: https://github.com/climlab/climlab-cam3-radiation
.. _climlab-emanuel-convection
: https://github.com/climlab/climlab-emanuel-convection
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Development of climlab
is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under award AGS-1455071 to Brian Rose.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.