components including a general circulation model, or may refer to the general class of climate models that use a variety of means to represent the climate mathematically.

Atmospheric and oceanic models

Atmospheric (AGCMs) and oceanic GCMs (OGCMs) can be coupled to form an atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model (CGCM or AOGCM). With the addition of submodels such as a sea ice model or a model for evapotranspiration over land, AOGCMs become the basis for a full climate model.

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