Climate Systems Center
at the University of Chicago 
Basic climate phenomena: Simplified models and GCM simulation
- Snowball Earth
- Martian Seasonal Cycle
- Mechanisms of polar amplification
Software Development
- atmqty: Package for calculating atmospheric quantities
- CliMT: A Python-driven Climate Modeling Toolkit
- gemath: "Good Enough" array manipulation and mathematics package
- IaGraph: Interactive graphing package
- modelutil: Generic utilities for climate modeling
- ncPickle: netCDF pickler for Numeric and numarrays
- NumMPI: Message passing interface for Numeric arrays
- NumPtr: Interface between Numeric Arrays and SWIG'd C/C++ arrays
- QUASImage: Quick ASCII Images for Numeric arrays
- slarti: FOAM Terrain Editor
- span: Python-driven Spectral Analysis Package
- swom: Python Shallow Water Ocean Model Toolkit
- Web interface to column radiation model
- Python Asynchronous Model Framework
- Python-driven atmospheric dynamical core
- Package Distribution Structure and HTML Documentation Template
Finite Element Methods
- Parallel 2D Discontinuous Galerkin advection toolkit
- Tiresius -- package for visualizing data on unstructured meshes
FOAM Model Development
- Improvement of ocean model (om3) numerics
- Parameterization improvements to make the thermohaline circulation more realistic.
- Improved run control for om3
- Expanded access to planetary parameters (esp. rotation rate, radius and gravity)
- Generalized description of atmospheric thermodynamics (e.g. ability to increase surface pressure and change proportions of major atmospheric constituents).
- Improve input and output package, based on netCDF
- Dynamic sea ice model
