This manual describes the single baroclinic mode version
of the Neelin-Zeng Quasi-Equilibrium
Tropical Circulation Model (QTCM1),
developed at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Primary development of the QTCM1 was done
by J. David Neelin and Ning Zeng. The original driver was
written by William Weibel.
Alistair Adcroft
provided the direct Poisson solver used in the QTCM1.
Chia Chou developed a cloud/radiation package used in the model.
Hui Su and Ning Zeng wrote the slab mixed-layer ocean module.
Matthias Munnich helped to optimize the model.
This manual was written by Johnny Lin, Ning Zeng,
David Neelin, Chia Chou, Hui Su and Matthias Munnich. Contributions to the
documentation were also made by Katrina Hales and Joyce Meyerson.
This model and its documentation is, by necessity, offered to the community on an ``as-is'' basis, with no warranties or guarantees given or implied. However, we earnestly desire comments and suggestions to help improve both the model and the manual. Users are particularly requested to please notify us of any bugs they find in the model. The QTCM1 development team can be reached in care of:
Prof. J. David NeelinThe QTCM1 home page on the World Wide Web is located at:
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
7127 Math Sciences
Box 951565
Los Angeles, CA
USA
Tel: (310) 825-1217
Fax: (310) 206-5219
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~csi/QTCM/
Links to download the model and view the online manual are also located
on that page. Addenda to this manual are found on the ``manual'' page
of the QTCM website.
The authors of the manual can be reached via e-mail at:
This model is distributed to the research community for non-profit research, subject to the usual academic conventions for copyright and citation. If you have benefited from this work, please cite the major papers describing this model:
Neelin, J. D., and N. Zeng, 2000: A quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model--formulation, J. Atmos. Sci., 1741-1766.Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, and C. Chou, 2000: A quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model-- implementation and simulation, J. Atmos. Sci., 1767-1796.
This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant number ATM-9521389 and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration grant number NA86GP0314.
