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Welcome to the wiki of the Planetary Climate Models (PCM) family! Our numerical climate models cover a wide range of planets described below.

• With the Generic Models:

1. Exoplanets of all kinds (rocky planets, super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, hot Jupiters, etc.)
2. Paleoclimates of Solar System planets (e.g., to simulate lakes and glacier on Hesperian/Noachian Mars ; snowball episodes or exploring the Faint Young Sun on Earth ; formation and stability of early ocean on Venus ; episodes of atmospheric collapse on Titan)
3. Giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)

• With the Mars Models:

1. Present-day Mars climate (with water and dust cycles)
2. Recent-Mars paleoclimates (e.g., during Amazonian epoch, to simulate low and high-obliquity epochs)
3. Regional and local weathers on Mars (e.g. to simulate weather near Mars rover landing sites)

• With the Venus models:

1. Present-day Venus climate
2. Regional weather on Venus (e.g. to simulate the convection in the cloud layer)

• With the Titan models:

1. Present-day Titan
2. Regional and local weather on Titan

• With the Pluto/Triton models:

1. Present-day Pluto/Triton climate
2. Long-term volatile/ice cycling on Pluto and Triton

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