Dynamical Models

Reading's Dynamical Modelling Hierarchy

A hierarchy of dynamical models of the global atmosphere has been developed at Reading since the 1970s, all using the spectral transform technique.

• Barotropic model.
• Shallow water model.
• Baroclinic primitive-equation model (IGCM), including adiabatic, Newtonian-forcing, and moist parameterization versions.
• Eigenvalue solver for the baroclinic model.
• Linear stationary wave version of the baroclinic model.
• Diagnostics for the baroclinic model versions.

Our aim is to create portable versions of all these models: links will be added as models become available. A subset of the models/versions is freely available.

The codes are maintained using nupdate, a portable program-library editor.
Link to nupdate man page. Link to nupdate documentation.
tar file containing nupdate documentation and Sun/SGI binaries.

Support libraries (source code and Makefiles): tar-file and listing