MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative
a collaboration between scientists in the Center
for Global Change Science of MIT,
to develop a state-of-the-art model of the atmosphere
and ocean for study of the climate of the Earth.
CMI is developing a new generation of climate model
utilizing improved process models, which
exploit our latest understanding of ocean, land,
atmospheric and bio-geochemical processes and new developments in
algorithms, computing technology and software design.
The development focus of CMI is MITgcm,
a hydrodynamical model that can be used to study both
the atmosphere and ocean.
Our approach is wide-ranging encompassing
algorithmic, computational, physical and technological
innovations, drawing together elements of
computational fluid dynamics, statistics, meteorology,
oceanography and computer science.
CMI is directed by John
Marshall.
A recent overview by Alistair Adcroft of model
development in CMI is given
here.
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