Global Climate Model, CM3 GFDL’s successful model, CM2.1 (Delworth et al., 2006), was used as the starting point to develop the next-generation CM3 coupled model. The major development effort for CM3 focused on the atmosphere component. The update from the CM2.1 atmospheric component (AM2; GFDL GAMDT, 2004) to the new AM3 component in CM3 (Donner et al., 2011) was … Continue reading Coupled Physical Model, CM3