Post-Processing Strategies for the ECMWF Model

Abstract

Climate models are steadily evolving towards higher resolution and the upcoming model inter-comparison projects require an unprecedented number of produced variables. As a consequence, the post-processing of the output of these models start to form a bottleneck for CMIP experiments. We discuss how the ece2cmor3 tool processes the EC-Earth model output in parallel, and present a new coupling of the ECMWF weather model to the XIOS library to allow on-the-fly post-processing of its atmospheric fields.