MCM Methodology

Archaeoclimatology, also called Macrophysical Climate Modeling (MCM), was developed in the mid-1990s by Reid A. and Robert U. Bryson as an alternative to iterative general circulation models (GCMs) that would produce results at a spatial and temporal scale useful to a variety of social, natural, and earth sciences.  Unlike the wide assortment of GCMs in the literature, the MCM takes a top-down, rather than bottom-up, approach to model building. 

Technical details about the construction of the model are available in the published literature.  For a comprehensive overview, please refer to Bryson (2005a; Bryson and Bryson 1998).  For more detailed description of various components, refer to Bryson (1988; 1989; 1992), Bryson and Bryson (2000), R.A. Bryson and R.U. Bryson (1997), R.U. Bryson et al (2006), and Bryson and Goodman (1986).

The Flow Chart of the Methodology behind the Archaeoclimatology Macrophysical Climate Model can be found here or you can download a PDF version of the model methodology. (The flow chart and PDF now refer exclusively to the 100-year version of the model.)

Complete references may be found on the Publications page.

	Now available for purchase: A Paleoclimatology Workbook: High-Resolution, Site-Specific, Macrophysical Climate Modeling. Includes directions and template files for the model itself. Click here. Published by The Mammoth Site.