MITgcm Un-Official (Develompent) Home Page

Welcome to the web page for the development/testing version of MITgcm, a numerical model designed for the study of the atmosphere, ocean, and climate. For an overview, please see MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative (CMI) which introduces the MITgcm model, its applications, and the development team.

MITgcm is freely available to all; we encourage you to download it, use it, and give us feedback to help us improve it.

MITgcm:

can be used to study both atmospheric and oceanic circulation
has a non-hydrostatic capability
supports horizontal orthogonal curvilinear coordinates
has a finite volume treatment of topography
supports a wide range of physical parameterizations
has tangent linear and adjoint code maintained alongside the forward model
can run on your pc, workstation or parallel computer using flexible domain decomposition

Here you can:

access the on-line user manual which includes:
- main table of contents

download the code

follow tutorial examples of the use of MITgcm in the study of atmospheric and oceanic flows

browse the hyperlinked code

View the "Developer's HOWTO" in multiple formats:

If you have any comments or questions, please contact us here.

John Marshall, Alistair Adcroft, Jean-Michel Campin, Patrick Heimbach, Andrea Molod, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Helen Hill, Martin Losch, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Dimitris Menemenlis, David Ferreira, Ed Hill, Mick Follows, Chris Hill, Constantinos Evangelinos, Gael Forget

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology