Recently the use of Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCM's) has been proposed as an alternative to traditional 1 - D modeling for evaluation of the OTEC resource. (otecnews.org)
CMIP was established as a resource for climate modelers, providing a standard protocol for studying the output of coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models so that these models can be compared and validated. (sciencedaily.com)
The climate projections for future DOC predictions were based on coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models from the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCM3) and the U.S. Department of Energy / National Center for Atmospheric Research Parallel Climate Model (PCM) under two emissions scenarios. (eos.org)