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 Getting Started</h1></center> | 
 Getting Started</h1></center> | 
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 <font size=+1>To run MITgcm you need to</font> | 
 <font size=+1>To run MITgcm you need to:</font> | 
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 <font size=+1>have a suitable computer and compiler,</font></li> | 
 <font size=+1>have a suitable computer and compiler,</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1>try to | 
 <font size=+1>try to | 
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 <a href="../online_documents/manual/compiling.html">compile</a> | 
 <a href="../online_documents/manual/compiling.html">compile</a> | 
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 and | 
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 <a href="../online_documents/manual/running.html">run</a> | 
 <a href="../online_documents/manual/running.html">run</a> an example | 
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 an example by following the steps on the left.</font></li> | 
 by following the steps on the left - the links will take you to appropriate | 
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 <br><font size=+1>These links will take you to appropriate parts of the | 
 <a href="../online_documents/index.html" target="mainFrame">documentation</a>.</font></li> | 
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 <a href="../online_documents/index.html" target="mainFrame">documentation</a>.</font></ul> | 
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 <font size=+1>To help you configure your own experimental set-up, we provide | 
 <font size=+1>To help you configure your own experimental set-up, we provide | 
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 many different example configurations which can be adapted to your particular | 
 you with 'documented examples' which can be adapted to your particular | 
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 scenario. These examples include, among others:</font> | 
 scenario. They are:</font> | 
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 <font size=+1>an <a href="../online_documents/manual/eg_baroclin.html">idealized | 
 <font size=+1>Barotropic Gyre in Cartesian coordinates</font></li> | 
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 sector ocean</a> in spherical coordinates</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1><a href="../online_documents/manual/global4x4.html">4°x4° | 
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 global ocean</a>, with realistic geography and forcing</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1>a high resolution simulation of internal waves incident on | 
 <font size=+1>Baroclinic Gyre in Spherical coord</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1>open ocean deep convection</font></li> | 
 <font size=+1>4 x 4 global ocean simulation</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1>flow over a topographic obstacle</font></li> | 
 <font size=+1>Sensitivities using adjoint ocean model</font></li> | 
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 <font size=+1>There are also some | 
 <font size=+1>Further examples are being documented and will be posted | 
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 <p><font size=+1>There are also some | 
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 <a href="sideMenuBarFrame.html#atmosphere" target="sideMenuBarFrame">atmospheric</a> | 
 <a href="sideMenuBarFrame.html#atmosphere" target="sideMenuBarFrame">atmospheric</a> | 
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 configurations as well as more | 
 configurations as well as more | 
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 <a href="sideMenuBarFrame.html#atmosphere" target="sideMenuBarFrame">simplified</a> | 
 <a href="sideMenuBarFrame.html#atmosphere" target="sideMenuBarFrame">simplified</a> | 
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 setups for testing certain aspects of the model such as | 
 setups available for testing certain aspects of the model such as parameterizations | 
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 parameterizations and diagnostics.</font> | 
 and diagnostics. They are not yet fully documented but test code is available.</font> | 
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