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<font size=+1>Documentation of MITgcm takes several forms:</font> |
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The manual</h2></center> |
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The manual, documenting the formulation, descretization and implementation, |
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can be accessed by following the links on the left. These take you to the |
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/overview.html">Overview of MITgcm</a></font></b></li> |
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<br>Discusses the |
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<a href="manual/continuous.html"> |
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continuous formulation |
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of the model and illustrates some |
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<a href="manual/illustrations.html">applications</a> |
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/discrete.html">Discretization and Algorithm</a></font></b></li> |
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<br>describes the integration algorithm for the various formulations and |
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gives the spatial discretization of the model equations |
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/getting.html">Getting started and using |
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the MITgcm</a></font></b></li> |
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<a href=../online_documents/manual/compiling.html>compile</a>, |
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<a href=../online_documents/manual/running.html>run</a> and |
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<a href=../online_documents/manual/doing.html>modify</a> the model. |
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/sarch.html">Software Architecture</a></font></b></li> |
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efficiently on a wide range of parallel and uniprocessor machines. |
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systems</a> is discussed here. |
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<br>describes how to generate the adjoint and tangent linear forms of the |
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/packages.html">Physical Parameterizations |
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<br>describes the optional parameterizations and features supplied in the |
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or jump to the full <a href="manual/contents.html">table of contents</a>.The |
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manual is also downloadable in <a href="manual.ps.gz">PostScript</a> and |
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This allows you to peruse the source code by following hyper-links for |
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variables, subroutines and functions. It allows you to find instances of |
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