Welcome to the web page of release 1 of MITgcm, a numerical model designed for the study of the atmosphere, ocean and climate.

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

• download the code
• access on-line documentation
• follow tutorial examples of the use of MITgcm in the study of atmospheric and oceanic flows
• browse the hyperlinked code

If you have any comments contact us here.

Alistair Adcroft,
Jean-Michel Campin,
Patrick Heimbach,
Chris Hill,
John Marshall

Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology