MITgcm Ation Manual
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- Overview of MITgcm
- Discretization and Algorithm
- Notation
- Time-stepping
- Pressure method with rigid-lid
- Pressure method with implicit linear free-surface
- Explicit time-stepping: Adams-Bashforth
- Implicit time-stepping: backward method
- Synchronous time-stepping: variables co-located in time
- Staggered baroclinic time-stepping
- Non-hydrostatic formulation
- Variants on the Free Surface
- Spatial discretization of the dynamical equations
- Continuity and horizontal pressure gradient terms
- Hydrostatic balance
- Flux-form momentum equations
- Vector invariant momentum equations
- Tracer equations
- Linear advection schemes
- Non-linear advection schemes
- Comparison of advection schemes
- Shapiro Filter
- Nonlinear Viscosities for Large Eddy Simulation
- Getting Started with MITgcm
- Where to find information
- Obtaining the code
- Model and directory structure
- Building MITgcm
- Running MITgcm
- Customizing MITgcm
- Testing
- MITgcm Example Experiments
- Barotropic Gyre MITgcm Example
- Baroclinic Gyre MITgcm Example
- Gyre Advection Example
- Global Ocean MITgcm Example
- P coordinate Global Ocean MITgcm Example
- Held-Suarez Atmosphere MITgcm Example
- Surface Driven Convection
- Gravity Plume On a Continental Slope
- Biogeochemistry Tutorial
- Global Ocean State Estimation Example
- Sensitivity of Air-Sea Exchange to Tracer Injection Site
- Offline Example
- A Rotating Tank in Cylindrical Coordinates
- Software Architecture
- Automatic Differentiation
- Physical Parameterizations - Packages I
- Using MITgcm Packages
- Packages Related to Hydrodynamical Kernel
- General purpose numerical infrastructure packages
- Ocean Packages
- GMREDI: Gent-McWilliams/Redi SGS Eddy Parameterization
- KPP: Nonlocal K-Profile Parameterization for Vertical Mixing
- GGL90: a TKE vertical mixing scheme
- OPPS: Ocean Penetrative Plume Scheme
- KL10: Vertical Mixing Due to Breaking Internal Waves
- BULK_FORCE: Bulk Formula Package
- EXF: The external forcing package
- CAL: The calendar package
- Atmosphere Packages
- Sea Ice Packages
- Packages Related to Coupled Model
- Biogeochemistry Packages
- Diagnostics and I/O - Packages II, and Post--Processing Utilities
- Ocean State Estimation Packages
- Under development
- Previous Applications of MITgcm
- BIBLIOGRAPHY