Abstract
This document describes the available documentation and reference material for the FMS Atmospheric Dynamical Cores, as originally described in:
Held, I. M., and M. J. Suarez, 1994: A proposal for the intercomparison of the dynamical cores of atmospheric general circulation models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75(10), 1825-1830.
Table of Contents
The top level readme file contains a short description of the contents of this package.
Quickstart Guide: describes how to acquire, compile, and run the atmospheric dynamical core models.
Users Guide: documentation of the release package
B-grid Atmospheric Core Documentation
Spectral Atmospheric Core Documentation
Finite Volume Atmospheric Core Documentation
Lin, S-J., 2004: A "vertically Lagrangian" finite-volume dynamical core for global models. Monthly Weather Review, 132(10), 2293-2307.