Other than the main model, several other programs or model extensions formed the complete Cosmo
system. The following diagram shows most of them and their relation. An arrow between them
indicates the flow of data along a pair
In short, this is what each part implements:
- INT2LM
- The program that prepares the input for the COSMO model
- COSMO
- The forecasting model
- ICs & BCs
- Initial and boundary conditions can come from a global model (like ICON/IFS) or the COSMO
model itself (for high resolution nested runs) and in various formats (grib/grib2/netCDF)
- FieldExtra
- A generic tool to manipulate NWP model data and gridded observations; simple data processing
and more complex data operations are supported.
- VERSUS
- An implementation of model verification (read, store, compute and present) using open
source tools
- ART
- Optional add-on to COSMO model for calculating the interactions of gases and aerosols with
the atmosphere
- CLM
- The climatic version of COSMO
- Veg3d
- A multi-layer soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer model, for regional climate application
- Community Land Model
- A climate model freely available to the scientific community