Overview of the Venus PCM

Welcome to the overview page of the Venus Planetary Climate Model

The Venus PCM (Planetary Climate Model)

In a nutshell the Venus PCM is a suite of models combining the Venus physics package and a dynamical core which may be LMDZ (the historical lon-lat grid), DYNAMICO (a more recent icosahedral dynamical core) or WRF (limited area dynamical core).

The traditional Venus PCM - LMDZ (formerly know as the IPSL Venus GCM) is the most commonly used version. For a first try at installing running the Venus PCM we recommend you start from the Quick Install and Run Venus PCM page. You will also most likely be interested in all the pages tagged as "Venus-Model" or "Venus-LMDZ" in the Categories section.

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