1. General Model Information
Name: NCAR Community Climate Model
Acronym: NCAR_CCM
Main medium: air
Main subject: climatology, meteorology
Organization level: ecosphere
Type of model: partial differential equations
Main application:
Keywords: global circulation, atmospheric transport, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, paleoclimate, biosphere-atmosphere transfer
Contact:
The National Center for Atmospheric Research
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80307
Author(s):
Abstract:
The NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3) is a stable, efficient, documented, state of the art atmospheric general circulation
model designed for climate research on high-speed supercomputers and select upper-end workstations.
CCM3 is a free resource for scientists and graduate students in a wide array of specialties to use in conducting global modeling
experiments in their particular area of expertise without spending decades of their careers developing a complete global climate
model of this complexity.
Over the last 10 years, CCM0, CCM1 and CCM2 have been used by numerous scientific institutions around the world for basic
research into such areas as CO2 warming and climate change, climate prediction and predictability, atmospheric chemistry,
paleoclimate, biosphere-atmosphere transfer and nuclear winter. These web-pages document and distribute CCM3, the latest
version of the CCM.
II. Technical Information
II.1 Executables:
Operating System(s):
II.2 Source-code:
Programming Language(s): FORTRAN.
available at CCM Home Page
II.3 Manuals:
CCM Manual (Postscript + MS Word) CCM online Manual
II.4 Data:
See CCM online Manual
III. Mathematical Information
III.1 Mathematics
III.2 Quantities
III.2.1 Input
See CCM online Manual
III.2.2 Output
See CCM online Manual
IV. References
V. Further information in the World-Wide-Web
CCM Home Page
VI. Additional remarks
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Status of the document:
last modified by
Tobias Gabele Wed Aug 21 21:44:46 CEST 2002