GCM history

I came across this interesting website about the history of General Circulation Models:

http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/sloan/mainpage.html

While reading it, I recalled a personal account of the early development at Princeton/GFDL by its first director, Joseph Smagorinsky, as (earliest) part of the story:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3mv79u2jvz4s80/smargorinsky1983advGeophys_beginning_NWP.pdf?dl=0