The AGCM Gridded Component

AGCM is the root component of the atmospheric model; it connects its two children, the DYNAMICS and the COLUMN PHYSICS. The COLUMN PHYSICS consists of components that compute radiative fluxes, turbulent fluxes and surface interactions, the effects of moist processes and of sub-grid scale gravity waves. It also includes chemistry and aerosol packages. The dynamics can use either if the two finite-volume cores.

The components only explicit imports are the analysis tendencies of its upper-air state variable: u, v, T, qv, O3, and p.