ECHAM

Overview

ECHAM is the atmospheric general circulation component of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM). It was originally branched from the numerical weather prediction model developed by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in the late 1980’s and is developed and supported by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany. Thus the ECHAM acronym is comprised of EC from ECMWF, H for Hamburg and AM for atmospheric model.

There are several DART users who have working DART interface code to ECHAM. If you are interested in running DART with this model please contact the DART group at dart@ucar.edu for more information. We currently do not have a copy of the model_mod interface code nor any of the scripting required to run an assimilation, but we may be able to put you in contact with the right people to get it.