This is a limited list of journal publications as a starting point for exploring the ICON world. For lots of further research publications please see the documentation part of this website, the websites of the ICON partners and standard search engines.

Atmosphere

Bonaventura, L., and T. Ringler, 2005: Analysis of Discrete Shallow-Water Models on Geodesic Delaunay Grids with C-Type Staggering. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2351–2373, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR2986.1

Gassmann A and Herzog HJ. (2008). Towards a consistent numerical compressible non-hydrostatic model using generalized Hamiltonian tools. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 134: 1597–1613. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.297

Rípodas, P. et al: Icosahedral Shallow Water Model (ICOSWM): results of shallow water test cases and sensitivity to model parameters, Geosci. Model Dev., 2, 231–251, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2-231-2009 , 2009.

Wan, H. et al. (2013). The ICON-1.2 hydrostatic atmospheric dynamical core on triangular grids. Part 1: Formulation and performance of the baseline version. Geoscientific Model Development, 6(3), 735–763. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-735-2013

Zängl, G. et al. (2015). The ICON (ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic) modelling framework of DWD and MPI-M: Description of the non-hydrostatic dynamical core. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 141, 563–579. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2378

Dipankar, A. et al. (2015). Large eddy simulation using the general circulation model ICON. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7(3), 963–986. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000431

Klocke, D., Brueck, M., Hohenegger, C. & Stevens, B. Rediscovery of the doldrums in storm-resolving simulations over the tropical Atlantic. Nature Geosci 10, 891–896 (2017).

Giorgetta, M. A. et al. (2018). ICON‐A, the atmosphere component of the ICON Earth system model: I. Model description. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017MS001242

Stevens, B. et al. DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 6, 61 (2019).

Stevens, B. et al. The Added Value of Large-eddy and Storm-resolving Models for Simulating Clouds and Precipitation. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 98, 395–435 (2020)

Zängl, G., D. Reinert, and F. Prill (2022). Grid refinement in ICON v2.6.4. Model Dev. 15, 7153–7176. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-7153-2022

Giorgetta, et al (2022), The ICON-A model for direct QBO simulations on GPUs (version icon-cscs:baf28a514), Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 6985–7016, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6985-2022

Hohenegger, C. et al (2023). ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth system and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales. Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 779–811, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-779-2023

Ocean

Korn, P. (2017). Formulation of an unstructured grid model for global ocean dynamics. J. Comput. Phys., 339©, 525–552.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.03.009

Korn, P. and Linardakis, L. (2018). A conservative discretization of the shallow-water equations on triangular grids. J. Comput. Phys., 375©, 871-900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.09.002

Korn, P. and S. Danilov (2017). Elementary dispersion analysis of some mimetic discretizations on triangular C-grids. J. Comput. Phys., 330, 156 - 172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.10.059

Korn, P. (2018). A structure-preserving discretization of ocean parametrizations on unstructured grids. Ocean Modelling 132, 73-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.10.002

Mehlmann and Korn, P. (2021): Sea-ice dynamics on triangular grids. J. Comput. Phys., 428, 110086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2020.110086

Logemann, L. Linardakis, P. Korn, C. Schrum (2021): Global tide simulations with ICON-O: testing the model performance on highly irregular meshes. Ocean Dynamics 71, 43-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-020-01428-7

L. Linardakis, I. Stemmler, M. Hanke, L. Ramme, F. Chegini, T. Ilyina, and P. Korn (2022) Improving scalability of Earth system models through coarse-grained component concurrency – a case study with the ICON v2.6.5 modelling system. Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 9157–9176, doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-9157-2022

Earth System Components, Aerosols and Reactive Trace Gases (ART)

Jungclaus, J. et al. (2022). The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14: e2021MS002813. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002813

Schröter, J. et al. (2018). ICON-ART 2.1: a flexible tracer framework and its application for composition studies in numerical weather forecasting and climate simulations. Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4043-4068, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4043-2018

Rieger, D. et al. (2015). ICON–ART 1.0 – a new online-coupled model system from the global to regional scale. Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1659-1676, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1659-2015

Weimer, M. et al. (2017). An emission module for ICON-ART 2.0: implementation and simulations of acetone. Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2471-2494, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2471-2017

Schneck, R. et al. (2022). Assessment of JSBACHv4.30 as a land component of ICON-ESM-V1 in comparison to its predecessor JSBACHv3.2 of MPI-ESM1.2. Geoscientific Model Development, 15(22), 8541–8559. https://doi.org/10.5194/GMD-15-8581-2022

Pham, T. V. et al. (2021): ICON in Climate Limited-area Mode (ICON release version 2.6.1): a new regional climate model. Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 985–1005. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-985-2021

Physics Packages

There are many physics packages for the different configurations of ICON. They will be described and linked in docs.icon-model.org soon.

Libraries used by ICON

Here we link technical libraries, further physics libraries and external packages will be documented in docs.icon-model.org.

Coupler
Hanke M., Redler, R. et al. (2016). YAC 1.2.0: new aspects for coupling software in Earth system modeling. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 2755-2769. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2755-2016

Moritz Hanke und René Redler (2019). New features with YAC 1.5.0. Reports on ICON, No 3. https://doi.org/10.5676/DWD_pub/nwv/icon_003

Input/Output
Climate Data Interface -  CDI is a C and Fortran Interface to access climate and NWP model data. Supported data formats are GRIB and NetCDF.

External Parameters
Extpar Datasets - for more information see http://www.cosmo-model.org/content/support/software/default.htm (EXTPAR - COSMO software)