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== The Mars PCM ==
In a nutshell, the Mars Planetary Climate Model is a General Circulation Model (GCM) of the Martian atmosphere.

== Reference Versions of the Mars PCM ==
Bla bla bla... mention here the various configurations? (GCM, 1D, Mesoscale)

=== GCM version 5 ===
This is the version of the model that was used to generate Mars Climate Database version 5.3. In practice, the main features of these simulations are:
* a horizontal grid (longitudexlatitude) resolution of 64x48, with 49 vertical layers (when including the thermosphere)
* a dust cycle where column dust opacity is imposed via input dust scenarios.

=== GCM version 6 ===
This is the latest version of the model that was used to generate Mars Climate Database version 6.1. In practice, the main features of these simulations are:
* a horizontal grid (longitudexlatitude) resolution of 64x48, with 73 vertical layers (when including the thermosphere)
* a dust cycle where column dust opacity is driven by dust scenarios but via injection of rocket dust storms and the use of mountain slope dust re-injection parametrization.

== Getting started ==
Most likely you will want to install and run the model, then you should start [[Quick_Install_and_Run_Mars_PCM|with this page]].

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 == Getting started ==
-Most likely you will want to install and run the model, then you should start [[Quick_Install_and_Run_Mars_PCM|with this page]]. You can also check the User Manual provided with the source code (in the LMDZ.MARS directory), a copy is available online https://trac.lmd.jussieu.fr/Planeto/browser/trunk/LMDZ.MARS/user_manual.pdf, and also the [[Help_Mars_PCM|"Getting Help"]] page on this wiki.
+Most likely you will want to install and run the model, then you should start [[Quick_Install_and_Run_Mars_PCM|with this page]]. You can also check the [[Help_Mars_PCM|"Getting Help"]] page on this wiki, or browse through all pages tagged as belonging to the "Mars Model Category" under the [[Special:Categories|"All Categories"]] section.
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 == The Mars PCM ==
-In a nutshell, the Mars Planetary Climate Model is a General Circulation Model (GCM) of the Martian atmosphere. It is in fact a suite of models which may be run in various configurations: with the historical lon-lat (LMDZ) dynamics, or the modern DYNAMICO (icosahedral grid) dynamics, or as a regional model using WRF (a limited area dynamical core), or even as a 1D (single column) model.
+In a nutshell, the Mars Planetary Climate Model is a General Circulation Model (GCM) of the Martian atmosphere. It is in fact a suite of models which may be run in various configurations: with the historical lon-lat (LMDZ) dynamics, or the modern DYNAMICO (icosahedral grid) dynamics, or as a regional model using [[WRF dynamical core for LES/mesoscale simulations|'''WRF''']] (a limited area dynamical core), or even as a 1D (single column) model.
 == Reference Versions of the Mars PCM ==

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 == Reference Versions of the Mars PCM ==
 In practice the model is most often run using the legacy LMDZ lon-lat global dynamics for 3D simulations. However within this setup there are various configurations or versions of the model that can be used.
 === GCM version 5 ===

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 This is the latest version of the model that was used to generate Mars Climate Database version 6.1. In practice, the main features of these simulations are:
 * a horizontal grid (longitudexlatitude) resolution of 64x48, with 73 vertical layers (when including the thermosphere)
-* a dust cycle where column dust opacity is driven by dust scenarios but via injection of rocket dust storms and the use of mountain slope dust re-injection parametrization.
+* a dust cycle where column dust opacity is not rescaled to but driven by dust scenarios, via injection of rocket dust storms and the use of mountain slope dust re-injection parametrization. A dedicated page on the dust cycle in version 6 can be found [[Dust_Cycle_in_Mars_PCM6|here]].
 == Getting started ==
-Most likely you will want to install and run the model, then you should start [[Quick_Install_and_Run_Mars_PCM|with this page]]. You can also check the User Manual provided with the source code (in the LMD.MARS directory), a copy is available online https://trac.lmd.jussieu.fr/Planeto/browser/trunk/LMDZ.MARS/user_manual.pdf, and also the [[Help_Mars_PCM|"Getting Help"]] page on this wiki.
+Most likely you will want to install and run the model, then you should start [[Quick_Install_and_Run_Mars_PCM|with this page]]. You can also check the User Manual provided with the source code (in the LMDZ.MARS directory), a copy is available online https://trac.lmd.jussieu.fr/Planeto/browser/trunk/LMDZ.MARS/user_manual.pdf, and also the [[Help_Mars_PCM|"Getting Help"]] page on this wiki.
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