Global Atmospheric Model Development Team
The Global Atmospheric Model Development Team (GAMDT) is headed by Leo Donner (scientific), Bruce Wyman (technical) and Jeff Ploshay (diagnostic)
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GAMDT paper:
The new GFDL global atmospheric and land model AM2/LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations
(Revised for the Journal of Climate, February, 2004)
Abstract:
The configuration and performance of a new global atmosphere and land model for climate research developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) is presented. The atmosphere model, known as AM2, includes a new gridpoint dynamical core, a prognostic cloud scheme, and multi-species aerosol climatology and components from previous models used at GFDL. The land model, known as LM2, includes soil sensible and latent heat storage, groundwater storage, and stomatal resistance. The performance of the coupled model AM2/LM2 is evaluated with a series of prescribed sea-surface temperature (SST) simulations. Particular focus is given to the model's climatology and the characteristics of interannual variability related to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
FMS: Flexible Modeling System