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C-GOLDSTEIN is a frictional geostrophic ocean model coupled to a simplified energy-moisture balance atmospheric model and a thermodynamic sea ice model, the first step towards a very fast Earth System Model to simulate climate variability on millenial timescales. C-GOLDSTEIN underpins the NERC e-Science project GENIE (Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling).

C-GOLDSTEIN version 1, developed by Bob Marsh and Neil Edwards (U.Bern, Switzerland), is described in the report:

Marsh, R., Edwards, N. R., and J. G. Shepherd, 2002: Development of a fast cl imate model (C-GOLDSTEIN) for Earth System Science. Southampton Oceanography Centre Internal Document No. 83, 50 pp.
PDF version

and a submitted paper:

Edwards, N.R. and Marsh R. An efficient climate model with three-dimensional ocean dynamics. Submitted to Climate Dynamics.
preprint PDF version

Version 2 (just released) features seasonality.

If you are interested in using C-GOLDSTEIN, please contact Bob Marsh at R.Marsh@soc.soton.ac.uk or Neil Edwards (edwards@climate.unibe.ch)

Large Scale Modelling is partly funded as a core activity of the James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate. The James Rennell Division is one of the SOC Divisions funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and managed by the University of Southampton.

Last Updated: Bob Marsh 8th July 2003

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