Formation LMDZ Janvier 2026

Pre-training session on BBB
link: https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/meeting/signin/invite/69154/creator/34687/hash/921114baf24adc9c3443d7cd887de1df257097e6

Documents: presentation, pdf of the tutorial
Visualization tools : ferret primer, visualizing LMDZ outputs with python, panoply interface

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

Presentation on dynamical and physical tendencies

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

9:00-10:30

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

10:30-11:00

LMDZ1D (E. Vignon)

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

9:00-9:25

Parallelism (E. Millour)

9:25-10:15

Atmosphere/surface interface (F.Cheruy)

10:15-10:35

Coffee break

10:35-11:05

Aerosols (A. Sima, L. Guez)

11:05-12:45

Model physics part II : Water vapor and clouds (J-B Madeleine et al.)
-> wrap-up ferret script 1 and script 2
-> python script to illustrate the large scale condensation equations
-> python script to compute cloud radiative forcing + input file

12:45-14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Code ecosystem (L. Fairhead)  

14:30-16:00

LMDZ configurations, uses and tuning (F. Hourdin)

16:00 - ????

Final questions and comments