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Abstract: A series of two-week forecasts were made to a reasonable extent of success by an atmospheric general circulation model. The model is hemispheric, and has the grid size of about 270 km at mid-latitude, and 9 levels in the vertical, including the boundary layer, the troposphere and the middle stratosphere. The effects of radiation, water vapour and its phase change, evaporation, sensible heat flux and subgrid-scale turbulence effect are incorporated. The distribution of oceans and continents, the mountains, the sea surface temperature and the snow coverage are specified. These characteristics of the model have been described elsewhere only in fragmentary or obscure form. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to portray in some detail these model's profile, including the basic equations, the Reynolds stress, the water vapour processes as well as the finite difference equations. Also the energy equation in finite difference form is derived.