Water Vapor

Temperature

Precipitation

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 and Updates

7/30/2008

The Perth version of FMS has been released internally.

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.

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 operatiing systems that have been tested on a model-by-model basis.

3/31/2006

The Memphis version of FMS has been released internally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

6/27/2001

Welcome to the new FMS webpage. Nearly all of the links from the old FMS webpage have been added to this one; if you don't find what you are looking for in the sidebar, try clicking on one of the headings at left. That will take you to the site index, which has a few additional links. Much of the out-of-date documentation, such as the calgary quickstart guide, has been left out until it is updated. To access the outdated documents, please see the old FMS webpage. The general policy and specification documents can be accessed in the site index.