Formation LMDZ Janvier 2026

Pre-training session on BBB
link: https://orsay.bbb.cnrs.fr/b/fai-mgc-knw-3zz

Documents: presentation, pdf of the tutorial, ferret primer, visualizing LMDZ outputs with python

Tuesday 13th January 2024
Rooms Bering & Magellan
Corrridor 56 - 55, 2nd floor

9:00-9:15

Welcome and coffee 

9:15-9:30

Introduction (L. Fairhead)

9:30-10:15

General presentation of LMDZ (F. Hourdin)

10:15-10:45

Students presentation (1 slide each)

10:45-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:15

Installing the model, Code structure. Tutorial 1 (I.Musat, L. Fairhead)

12:15-12:45

Input files, forcing data (L. Guez)
Complement: Simplified physics

12:45-14:00

Lunch

14:30-17:30

Tutorial 1: different versions of the model, aquaplanet, sensitivity tests,
tendancies in tutorial 1 outputs

Wednesday 14th January 2026
Rooms Bering & Magellan
Corrridor 56 - 55, 2nd floor

9:00-9:30

Code ecosystem (L. Fairhead)            

9:30-11:00

Model physics part I : Radiation, turbulence, convective boundary layer, subgrid scale orography (F. Hourdin et al.) 

11:00-11:20

Coffee break

11:20-12:45

Dynamics: grid/temporal discretization/stability/dissipation (E. Millour)

12:50-14:00

Lunch

14:00-17:30

Tutorial N°2: Presentation (A.Sima), mandatory part + 1D + nudging + ORCHIDEE + tracers + aerosols + parallel + XIOS + ICOLMDZ

Thursday 15th January 2026
Rooms Bering & Magellan
Corrridor 56 - 55, 2nd floor

9:00-10:40

Model physics part II : convective and large-scale clouds (J-B Madeleine et al.)

10:40-11:10

LMDZ1D (E. Vignon)

11:10-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:20

Atmosphere/surface interface (F.Cheruy)

12:20-12:45

Parallelism (E. Millour)

12:45-13:15

Aerosols (A. Sima, L. Guez)

13:15-14:15

Lunch

14:15-15:45

LMDZ configurations, uses and tuning (F. Hourdin)

15:45-17:00

Practical session