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

• access the user manual (PDF), the online table of contents (HTML), and browse the overview section (HTML)
• read the description for downloading the code or go straight to our online CVS browser and download section
• 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:
  • Single-page HTML
  • Multi-page HTML
  • PDF file
  • PostScript file

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

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

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology