ICON Documentation

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish - J.R.R. Tolkien

This website contains a collection of ICON documentation including references to documentation available at other places. We do not claim that this documentation is complete, but we hope you will still find it helpful.

User Manual

Building ICON
Input Data
Running ICON
Supported Configurations
Supported Environments
Namelist Overview
FAQ

Interfaces & Tools

MakeExperiments! (mkexp)
EXTPAR Web Interface (Zonda)
Data Analysis & Remapping (CDO)
Community Interface (ComIn)
Forward Operators

Atmosphere

Dynamical Core
Physical Parameterizations
Aerosols & Reactive Trace gases (ART)

Ocean

Sea-ice Model
Ocean Biogeochemistry

Waves

Configuration
Output Parameters

Land

Land Parameterizations
Dynamic Vegetation
Carbon Cycle

Infrastructure

Parallelization
Input & Output (I/O)
Testing
Coupling (YAC)
Output Coupling

Literature

Tutorials
Technical Documentation
Scientific Documentation