Introduction

The purpose of the main program and its associated module gotm is the construction of a solid framework for the interaction of all components of GOTM. Almost no actual computations are carried out inside this part of the program. However, the most important processes are triggered from there: the initialization of all lower-level modules is actuated and the time stepping of the differential equations is managed. Also calls to subroutines responsible for the air-sea interaction and the ouput of the results are managed. Details for each of the (few) routines are given in the following.