The Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model: description and development

Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Table 2 Timeline of the development of NICAM

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Grid system	→Modified grid using the spring dynamics					→Grid stretching method				→XTMS	→Diamond NICAM, plane NICAM
Dynamics	→SWM		→3D dynamical core
Basic scheme		→Non-hydrostatic scheme
Advection scheme						→Miura scheme		→CWC consideration
Physics
Cumulus parameterizations model										→Tiedke	→Chikira
Cloud microphysics model				→Grabowski			→NSW6			→NDW6
Land surface model				→Bucket	→MATSIRO
Ocean surface model				→Fixed SST		→Slab Ocean							→Coupled Ocean
PBL model				→MY2.5					→MYNN
Radiation model				→MSTRN-X
Aerosol/chemistry					→SPRINTARS							→CHASER
Frameworks									→NICAM-LETKF		→Coupler (Jcup)
Frameworks										→NICAM-TM
Supercomputers		→ES							→ES2			→K computer
Milestone experiments				→Aqua-Planet Experiment				→Athena Project
Milestone experiments						→MJO Experiment						→Subkilometer Experiment

See the ‘Abbreviations’ section for the expanded forms of the abbreviations used in this table.