Modeling Groups Participating in AMIP I

A list of the AMIP modeling groups and their locations. Hyperlinks connect to further information on each model's features, and selected properties are compared across the models in a series of tables. Addresses of AMIP representatives also are provided.
 
Acronym AMIP Group Location
BMRC Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Melbourne, Australia
CCC Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis Victoria, Canada
CCSR Center for Climate System Research Tokyo, Japan
CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques Toulouse, France
COLA Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Calverton, Maryland
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization Mordialloc, Australia
CSU Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado
DERF Dynamical Extended Range Forecasting (at GFDL) Princeton, New Jersey
DNM Department of Numerical Mathematics Moscow, Russia
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reading, England
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Princeton, New Jersey
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies New York, New York
GLA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres Greenbelt, Maryland
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
IAP Institute of Atmospheric Physics Beijing, China
JMA Japan Meteorological Agency Tokyo, Japan
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California
LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Paris, France
MGO Main Geophysical Observatory St. Petersburg, Russia
MPI Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Hamburg, Germany
MRI Meteorological Research Institute Ibaraki-ken, Japan
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colorado
NMC National Meteorological Center Suitland, Maryland
NRL Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, California
NTU National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
RPN Recherche en Prévision Numérique Dorval, Canada
SUNYA State University of New York at Albany Albany, New York
SUNYA/NCAR State University of New York at Albany/National Center for Atmospheric Research Albany, New York/Boulder, Colorado
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California
UGAMP The UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme Reading, England
UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois
UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Office Bracknell, UK
YONU Yonsei University Seoul, Korea

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