MIT General Circulation Model

The MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm) is a numerical computer code that solves the equations of motion governing the ocean or Earth's atmosphere using the finite volume method. It was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was one of the first non-hydrostatic models of the ocean. It has an automatically generated adjoint that allows the model to be used for data assimilation.

References

Marshall, John; A. Adcroft; C. Hill; L. Perelman; C. Heisey (1997). "A finite-volume, incompressible Navier Stokes model for studies of the ocean on parallel computers". J. Geograph. Res. 102 (C3): 5753–5766. Bibcode:1997JGR...102.5753M. doi:10.1029/96JC02775.

Atmospheric, oceanographic and climate models

Model types

Atmospheric model Climate model Numerical weather prediction Tropical cyclone forecast model Atmospheric dispersion modeling Chemical transport model Upper-atmospheric models Ensemble forecasting Model output statistics Meteorological reanalysis Parametrization

Specific models

Climate	IGCM HadCM3 HadGEM1 GFDL CM2.X CGCM CCSM CFSv2 ECHAM MPAS

Global weather	IFS (ECMWF) FIM GEM GFS NAEFS NAVGEM UM JMA GME ARPEGE

Regional and mesoscale atmospheric	NAM RR / RAP RAMS WRF RAQMS HIRLAM LAPS RPM

Regional and mesoscale oceanographic	HyCOM ROMS POM MOM FVCOM MITgcm FESOM

Atmospheric dispersion	ADMS AERMOD ATSTEP AUSTAL2000 CALPUFF DISPERSION21 ISC3 MEMO MERCURE NAME OSPM PUFF-PLUME RIMPUFF SAFE AIR

Chemical transport	CLaMS MOZART GEOS-Chem

Land surface parametrization	JULES CLASS ISBA

Discontinued	AVN / MRF / GSM Eta LFM MM5 NGM NOGAPS RUC

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