Labs WMT Permafrost FrostNumberGEO

Introduction to Permafrost Processes - Lesson 3 Permafrost Maps using the Frost Number Model

This lab has been designed and developed by Irina Overeem and Mark Piper, CSDMS, University of Colorado, CO
with assistance of Kang Wang, Scott Stewart at CSDMS, University of Colorado, CO, and Elchin Jafarov, at Los Alamos National Labs, NM.
These labs are developed with support from NSF Grant 1503559, ‘Towards a Tiered Permafrost Modeling Cyberinfrastructure’

Classroom organization
This lab is the third in a series of introduction to permafrost process modeling, designed for inexperienced users. In this third lesson, we further use the Air Frost number model and learn to use this model to create spatially varying predictions of permafrost within the CSDMS Web Model tool (WMT). We implemented the Air Frost number model (as formulated in Nelson and Outcalt, 1987). This pseudo-2D implementation is named the Forst-number GEO model. This series of labs is designed for inexperienced modelers to gain some experience with running a numerical model, changing model inputs, and analyzing model output. Specifically, this lab combines the simple model with a climate reanalysis dataset, modified from the CRU-NCEP climate data over the 20th century.
Basic information on the CRU_AK data component is presented in these slides.

This lab will likely take 1,5 -2 hrs to complete in the classroom. This time assumes you now have gained some familiarity with the WMT and have learned how to set parameters, save runs, download data and look at output. If this is not the case, either start with Lab 1 in this series, or do the WMT Tutorial