PALM Tutorial

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This tutorial teaches you about the design of PALM, and how to ...

• carry out runs with PALM for different meteorological scenarios.
• use specific parts of the model, such as the embedded particle model or topography.
• understand and analyze the PALM output data.
• add user-defined code to the model.
• debug errors.

At least once a year, we are hosting the 5-day seminar An Introduction to the Large-Eddy Simulation Model PALM, which covers all the above-mentioned topics.

The next PALM seminar will be held Sept XX-XX 2018 at Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. The official announcement will follow in April via the PALM mailing list, which users are automatically added to after registration.

If you cannot make it to the seminar, you could self-study the contents by following the time schedule of last years' PALM seminar (Fig. 1). The respective PDF presentations are available as attachments below (normal and handout version). At the time of the PALM seminar 2017, the PALM respository was roughly at r2500. The PALM code is currently under heavy development (see lecture "Current developments"). To view the code changes since then, feel free to browse the repository.

Fig 1: Time schedule of the PALM seminar 2017, held Sept 25-29 at Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

Lecture presentations

Lecture	Normal version	Handout version
Seminar introduction	Seminar_Introduction.pdf	handout_Seminar_Introduction.pdf
Fundamentals of LES	Fundamentals_of_LES.pdf	handout_Fundamentals_of_LES.pdf
LES for beginners	LES_for_beginners.pdf	handout_LES_for_beginners.pdf
PALM overview	PALM_overview.pdf	handout_PALM_overview.pdf
PALM steering	PALM_steering.pdf	handout_PALM_steering.pdf
Data visualization	Data_visualization.pdf	handout_Data_visualization.pdf
Numerics & boundary conditions	Numerics_and_bc.pdf	handout_Numerics_and_bc.pdf
Code parallelization	Parallelization.pdf	handout_Parallelization.pdf
Code structure & features	Code_structure_and_features.pdf	handout_Code_structure_and_features.pdf
Large-scale forcing & nudging	LSF_lecture.pdf	handout_LSF_lecture.pdf
Topography	Topography.pdf	handout_Topography.pdf
Non-cyclic boundary conditions	Noncyclic_boundaries.pdf	handout_Noncyclic_boundaries.pdf
Restart runs	Restart_runs.pdf	handout_Restart_runs.pdf
User-defined code	User-defined_code.pdf	handout_User-defined_code.pdf
Debugging	Debugging.pdf	handout_Debugging.pdf
Land surface model	Land_surface_model.pdf	handout_Land_surface_model.pdf
Radiation model	Radiation_model.pdf	handout_Radiation_model.pdf
Current developments	Current_developments.pdf	handout_Current_developments.pdf
Grid nesting	Grid_nesting.pdf	handout_Grid_nesting.pdf
Lagrangian particle model	Lagrangian_particle_model.pdf	handout_Lagrangian_particle_model.pdf
Final remarks	Final_remarks.pdf	handout_Final_remarks.pdf

Exercise presentations

Exercise	Normal version	Handout version		Input files
E0: Installation	E0_Installation.pdf	handout_E0_Installation.pdf	---
E1: Convective boundary layer	E1_cbl.pdf	handout_E1_cbl.pdf	E1 setup
E2: Neutral boundary layer	E2_neutral.pdf	handout_E2_neutral.pdf	E2 setup
E3: Flow around building	E3_cube.pdf	handout_E3_cube.pdf	E3 setup
E4: Land surface model	E4_lsm.pdf	handout_E4_lsm.pdf	E4 setup
E5: Lagrangian & Eulerian dispersion modeling	E5_dispersion.pdf	handout_E5_dispersion.pdf	E5 setup

Further exercises and ... are available.

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