MIROC is a coupled general circulation model developed at CCSR. It's made up of CCSR/NIES AGCM 5.5 and COCO (CCSR Ocean Component Model), with a dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model.
The links below are yet to be available.
MIROC is named after one of the Bodhisattvas (Bodaisatta or Bosatsu
in Japanese), or Buddhist saints, who is called "Miroku-Bosatsu" in Japan.
Miroku-Bosatsu is now living in Tusita Heaven (Tosotsu-Ten in Japanese),
the place for future Buddhas, and will become a Buddha 5,670,000,000 years
later. He (there isn't gender for those Buddhist saints, though) is looking
after the changes in our planet, so to speak. A statue of Miroku at Koryuji
Temple, in Kyoto, is one of the most famous buddhism artworks in Japan
and was designated as a national treasure, the first such designation in
Japan. A photo of that statue (the backgroud picture of this page) has
repeatedly been used in the cover of the CCSR's pamphlets.