ICTP Atmospheric General Circulation Model SPEEDY-Net

A network of research users

SPEEDY 8-layer (version 41) model description:

speedy 8-layer (version 41) description (pdf)

SPEEDY 8-layer (version 40) model description:

speedy 8-layer (version 40) description (pdf)

Description of a previous SPEEDY 5-layer model (version 23):

speedy 5-layer (version 23) documentation

Articles published at the ICTP using SPEEDY: SPEEDY Articles

SPEEDY 8-layer (version 41) climatology verification:

speedy 8-layer (version 41) verification page

SPEEDY 8-layer (version 40) climatology verification:

speedy 8-layer (version 40) verification page

Typical performance on an Intel Xeon (2.40GHz) processor: 1 year of simulation can be run in 6 min.

For reference, please cite:

Molteni F (2003) Atmospheric simulations using a GCM with simplified
physical parametrizations. I. Model climatology and variability in
multi-decadal experiments. Clim Dyn 20: 175-191
and
Kucharski F, Molteni F, and Bracco A (2006) Decadal interactions
between the western tropical Pacific and the North Atlantic
Oscillation. Clim Dyn 26: 79-91

For downloading SPEEDY, please contact: kucharsk@ictp.it (Fred Kucharski)

Members of the ICTP IGCM-Net

Atmospheric circulation and predictability studies

    • Harvard University:
      Nikolaos Bakas, Dorian Schuyler Abbot and Brian Farrell

    • Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen:
      Juergen Bader

    • Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Israel:
      Yossi Ashkenazy

    • Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
      Manfredi Manizza, Jean-Michel Campin and John Marshall

    • University of Alaska Fairbanks:
      Martin P. King

    • Croatian Meteorological Service/Univ. of Zagreb:
      Cedo Brankovic and Ivana Herceg Bulic

    • Department of Atmospheric Sciences - USP/IAG/ACA, University of São Paulo:
      Prof. Tercio Ambrizzi and Anita Rodrigues de M. Drumond

    •  Department of Meteorology, Reading University:
      Andrew Turner

    • Climate Research Center, Seoul National University:
      Yang, Young-Min and Jin Ho Yoo

    • Department of Atymospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
      Stefan Hastenrath

    • Risk Management Solutions, London:
      Steve Jewson

    • Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland:
      Takemasa Miyoshi, Junjie Liuand Eugenia Kalnay

    • Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa - CNPq Universidade Federal de Visa, Brasil:
      Flavio Justino

    • Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences:
      Julien Emile-Geay

    • Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research - CARBOOCEAN, University of Bergen:
      Kristof Sturm

    • Cemagref Research Institute, Lyon, France:
      Etienne Leblois

    • Lisbon University, Portugal:
      Maria Joao Rocha

    • Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos - CPTEC/INPE, Brazil:
      David Mendes

    • Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS), University of California:
      Charles Jones

    • Unidad de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay:
      Marcelo Barreiro

    • University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA:
      Baburao Kamble

    • School of Engineering, Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia:
      Martin P. King

    • Hokkaido university science faculty, department of earth science, Japan:
      Akira Ooshima

    • Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA:
      Mathew Barlow

    • Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, Portugal:
      Telmo Frias, Carlos Pires

    • Department of Environmental Systems Science, Doshisha University Kyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan:
      Shozo Yamane

    • Computer and Space Sciences, University of Maryland, USA:
      Anthony Santorelli

    • Institute of Atmospheric Science, School of Mines and Technology, SD, USA:
      Mebratu Bahiru

    • Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA:
      Sara A. Rauscher

    • Kyoto University Meteorology Research Group, Japan:
      Kzuhiro Nishimura

    • Egyptian Meteorological Authority, Cairo, Egypt:
      Mohamed Ibrahim E. M. Omar

    • National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest, Romania:
      Roxana Bojariu

    • Brazilian Hydrographic Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
      Jairo Gomes

    • Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (CNRS and IPSL), Paris, France:
      B. Deremble

    • Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada:
      David Small

    • Texas A&M University, Texas, USA:
      Ethan Nelson, Istvan Szunyogh

    • Department of Meteorology (MISU), Stockholm University, Sweden:
      Anders Engstrom

    • CPTEC/INPE, SP, Brasil:
      Me. Joao Gerd Zell de Mattos

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, USA:
      Humberto C Godinez Vazquez

    • Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia:
      Mahally Kudsy

    • Joint Global Change Research Institute Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA:
      Xuesong Zhang

    • Egyptian Meteorological Authority, Climate Studies Centre, Cairo, Egypt:
      Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed OMAR

    • New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, USA:
      Ernesto Munoz

    • Department of Information & Comm. Tech. Metropolitan UniversitySylhet, Bangladesh:
      Choudhury Wahid

    • Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, USA:
      Robert Nicholas

    • CPTEC-INPE, Brazil:
      Augusto Brandao d Oliveira

    • CPTEC-INPE, Brazil:
      Enver Ramirez

    • University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Sciences, USA:
      Christiane Jablonowski

    • Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, USA:
      Adrian Sandu

    • Shahid Beheshti University Teheran, Iran:
      Saeed Sarpas

    • Addis Ababa University, Physics Department, Ethiopia:
      Gemechu Fanta

    • Universidade Federal do Paran (UFPR), Brazil:
      Bruno Nocera Zanette

    • University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:
      Katarina Kosovelj

    • CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), Bangalore, India:
      Dr K Rameshan

    • King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia:
      Dr. Athar Hussain

    Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere modelling:

    • Oceanographic Research Dept.,
      Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI):
      Wilco Hazeleger, Camiel Severijns

    • IRI - International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA:
      David G. DeWitt

    • Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, USA:
      David Battisti, William Roberts and Angie Pendergrass

    • Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, USA:
      Marcelo Barreiro

    • School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA:
      Annalisa Bracco

    • Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI), Korea:
      Hyoun-Woo Kang

    • University of Southern California, Dep. of Earth Sciences & Center for Applied Mathem. Sciences, USA:
      Julien Emile-Geay

    • Universidad Computense Madrid, Spain:
      Teresa Losada

    • Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA:
      Henry D. I. Abarbanel

    • LOCEAN/IPSL, France:
      Guillaume Gastineau

    • Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, Brazil:
      Roberto De Almeida

    • Department of Geosciences University of Arizona, USA:
      Toby R. Ault

    • South Florida Natural Resources Center, USA:
      Erik Stabenau


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