Abstract: We use molecular dynamics simulation to produce a map of the adatom migration barriers on fcc(110) metal surfaces. The metals have been modeled by many-body potentials within the second moment approximation to the tight-binding model. The estimated barriers are found to be influenced by the proximity of steps and terrace size. For each metal, the onset temperatures of some important diffusion processes are estimated through a 1-d exactly solvable growth model constructed to describe the growth along the [001] and the [1$\\overline{1}$0] directions separately.