General Circulation Models

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002795",
  "term": "General Circulation Models",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Hydrodynamic models of the atmosphere on a grid or spectral resolution that determine the surface pressure and the vertical distributions of velocity, temperature, density, and water vapor as functions of time from the mass conservation and hydrostatic laws, the first law of thermodynamics, Newton's second law of motion, the equation of state, and the conservation law for water vapor. Abbreviated as GCM. Atmospheric general circulation models are abbreviated AGCM, while oceanic general circulation models are abbreviated OGCM.",
  "abbreviation": "GCM",
  "subject": "Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment",
  "see_also": [
    "Earth system science",
    "climate models",
    "soil-atmosphere interactions",
    "atmospheric circulation",
    "Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer models",
    "soil-plant-atmosphere interactions",
    "simulation models"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Glossary, Department of Energy",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "Modelos de Circulación General"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/general-circulation-models/"
}