FMS is a software framework for supporting the efficient development, construction, execution, and scientific interpretation of atmospheric, oceanic, and climate system models. For more details, see What is FMS?
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Evolution of the atmosphere as simulated by a global atmospheric model developed at GFDL within the FMS framework. The resolution of the model is 2 degrees latitude by 2.5 degrees longitude, with 18 levels in the vertical. Observed sea surface temperatures and sea ice are specified as the lower boundary condition. The fields depicted are precipitation rate, vertically integrated water vapor, and temperature at 2m above the surface. The evolution covers one month with a temporal resolution of 3 hours. Boundary conditions correspond to April 1984.
News
2008
- 7/30/2008 - The Perth version of FMS has been released internally.
2007
- 8/15/2007 - The Omsk version of FMS has been released internally.
- 3/19/2007 - The Nalanda version of FMS has been released internally.
- 01/04/2007 - The latest code which has been thoroughly tested has been tagged
as memphis_2006_12.
Replacing memphis with memphis_2006_12 in your CVS checkouts will result in code that contains all the approved modifications made since the memphis release, and most of the modifications planned for the next release.
2006
- 11/06/2006 - Information about F-group transition testing is available to GFDL users through our internal web server. This page details the configurations of compilers and operating systems that have been tested on a model-by-model basis.
- 3/31/2006 - The Memphis version of FMS has been released internally.
2005
- 5/18/2005 - The Lima version of HIM, the Hallberg Isopycnal Model, has been released publicly. It is available for public download at our Gforge server.
- 5/13/2005 - The mom4p0d version of MOM4 has been released publicly. It is available for public download at our Gforge server.
- 4/18/2005 - The Lima version of FMS has been released internally.
- 2/18/2005 - The Khartoum version of AM2 has been released publicly. It is available for public download at our Gforge server.
2004
- 9/29/2004 - The Khartoum version of FMS has been released internally.
- 8/25/2004 - The mom4p0c version of MOM4 has been released publicly. It is available for public download at our Gforge server.
2003
- 10/31/2003 - The Jakarta version of FMS has been released internally. The atmospheric dynamical cores are available for public download at our Gforge server
- 4/9/2003 - The Inchon version of FMS has been released internally.
2002
- 10/21/2002 - The "Havana" version of FMS has been released to the public. Havana is the second public release of the infrastructure source code for FMS, the Flexible Modeling System. For the purpose of illustrating the infrastructure code, a coupled example model and two solo atmospheric example models have been included. To get started with FMS, please see the Havana Users' Guide.
- 7/16/2002 - The Havana version of FMS has been released internally.
- 4/25/2002 - The beta version of MOM4 has been released. For more information, please see the Ocean Modeling page.
- 4/4/2002 - Please try out the improved Source Doc Index.
- 3/28/2002 - We would like to announce "Galway", the first public release of the infrastructure source code for FMS, the Flexible Modeling System. For the purpose of illustrating the infrastructure code, a coupled example model and two solo atmospheric example models have been included. To get started with FMS, please see the Galway Users' Guide.
- 2/26/2002 - The Galway version of FMS has been released internally.
2001
- 10/29/2001 - The Fez version of FMS has been released internally.
- 9/7/2001 - Bugfixes for the eugene version of FMS have been released, as well as eugene_new_mpp, which is an intermediate release containing the code updates necessary for the modified mpp_domains interfaces. We have a new version of the quickstart guide for AM2. The tentative date for the (internal) fez release is October 11. Internal tasks for the public release have been posted.
- 7/20/2001 - The Guide to CVS has been updated, and you may want to take a look at Balaji's FMS Manual.
- 7/6/2001 - The Eugene version of FMS has been released.