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<font size=+1>Documentation of MITgcm takes several forms:</font> | 
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<font size=+1>in-source documentation (<a href="#prologues">subroutine | 
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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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main sections of the document: | 
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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">continuous formulation | 
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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 spatial and temporal 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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<br>describes how to <a href="manual/obtaining.html">download</a>, | 
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<a href="manual/compiling.html">compile</a>, | 
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<a href="manual/running.html">run</a> | 
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and <a href="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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<br>describes the software <a href="manual/wrapper.html">infrastructure</a> | 
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<a href="manual/using_wrapper.html">running on parallel systems</a>. | 
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/autodiff.html">Automatic Differentiation</a></font></b></li> | 
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<br>describes how to generate the adjoint and tangent linear forms of the | 
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model. | 
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/packages.html">Physical Parameterizations | 
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and Packages</a></font></b></li> | 
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<br>describes the optional parameterizations and features available in | 
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the model. | 
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/diags.html">Diagnostics and other tools</a></font></b></li> | 
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<br>details of off-line tools used in conjuction with the model. | 
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<b><font size=+1><a href="manual/ecco.html">Interface with ECCO</a></font></b></li> | 
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<br>describes the interface of MITgcm in the <a href="http://www.ecco-group.org" target="idontexist">ECCO</a> | 
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suite of optimization software tailored to large-scale ocean state-estimation</ol> | 
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Jump to the full <a href="manual/contents.html">table of contents</a>. | 
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<p>The manual is also downloadable in <a href="manual.ps.gz">PostScript</a> | 
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<a href="manual.pdf">PDF</a>. | 
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<font size=+1>The hyper-linked <a href="../code_reference/index.html" target="mainFrame">browsable | 
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code</a></font></h2></center> | 
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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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variables, find where subroutines and functions are called from and inspect | 
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full model code. | 
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<a NAME="prologues"></a>In-source documentation</h2></center> | 
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Comments in the source code itself have been formatted to render subroutine | 
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descriptions (written as prologues at the top of each routine). It is downloadable | 
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