"VIRTUAL" ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION IN THE EARTH SIMULATOR.

The article discusses a study which utilized an existing conventional primitive-equation atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and an ocean general circulation models (OGCMs), wherein subgrid-scale convection and mixed-layer turbulence are parameterized. The particular AGCM used for the simulation is called the AGCM for the Earth Simulator. The original code was adopted from an earlier version of a Japanese community AGCM that had been jointly developed by the Center for Climate System Research, the University of Tokyo and the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies.