NALT

Preferred term

General Circulation Models

Topic

Hydrodynamic models of the atmosphere on a grid or spectral resolution that determine the surface pressure and the vertical distributions of velocity, temperature, density, and water vapor as functions of time from the mass conservation and hydrostatic laws, the first law of thermodynamics, Newton's second law of motion, the equation of state, and the conservation law for water vapor. Abbreviated as GCM. Atmospheric general circulation models are abbreviated AGCM, while oceanic general circulation models are abbreviated OGCM.

GCM (General Circulation Models)

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

16356

Spanish

Modelos de Circulación General

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/13661

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 10/3/19