Welcome to EMC²’s documentation!

The Earth Model Column Collaboratory (EMC²) is an open-source framework for atmospheric model evaluation against observational data and model intercomparisons. This framework is specifically designed to simulate the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility remote-sensing measurements while being faithful to the representation of physical processes in leading state-of-the-art models such as the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Detailed description of EMC² is provided in Silber et al. (GMD, 2022; https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-901-2022).

Contents:

• EMC^2 Installation
• EMC^2 Usage guide
  • Construction of the EMC^2 Instrument Object
  • Addition of more wavelengths - format of Mie tables
  • Construction of the Model object
  • Creating your simulated variables
  • Visualization of results
• EMC² Demo Notebook
• API Reference
  • emc2.core (emc2.core)
  • Model
  • Instrument
  • emc2.io (emc2.io)
  • emc2.simulator (emc2.simulator)
  • emc2.plotting (emc2.plotting)
  • SubcolumnDisplay

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page

Citing EMC²

If the Earth Model Column Collaboratory (EMC²) is used in your manuscript, please cite:

Silber, I., Jackson, R. C., Fridlind, A. M., Ackerman, A. S., Collis, S., Verlinde, J., and Ding, J.: The Earth Model Column Collaboratory (EMC2) v1.1: an open-source ground-based lidar and radar instrument simulator and subcolumn generator for large-scale models, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 901–927, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-901-2022, 2022.

EMC² Tutorial

A tutorial for EMC² processing (in this case using E3SM model output) can be found on the ARM-Notebooks GitHub repository