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Executive editors: David Ham, Juan Antonio Añel, Astrid Kerkweg, Min-Hui Lo, Richard Neale, Rolf Sander & Paul Ullrich
eISSN: GMD 1991-9603, GMDD 1991-962X

Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of the description, development, and evaluation of numerical models of the Earth system and its components. The following manuscript types can be considered for peer-reviewed publication:

  • geoscientific model descriptions, from statistical models to box models to GCMs;
  • development and technical papers, describing developments such as new parameterizations or technical aspects of running models such as the reproducibility of results;
  • new methods for assessment of models, including work on developing new metrics for assessing model performance and novel ways of comparing model results with observational data;
  • papers describing new standard experiments for assessing model performance or novel ways of comparing model results with observational data;
  • model experiment descriptions, including experimental details and project protocols;
  • full evaluations of previously published models.

More details can be found in manuscript types and the journal editorial (compiled by the executive editors).

"I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature." (Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming, 1984)
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful." (George E. P. Box, Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, 1979)

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Recent papers

11 Mar 2026
Dynamical linkages between planetary boundary layer schemes and wildfire spread processes: a case study using WRF-Fire version 4.6
Yongli Wang, Chun Yang, Lamei Shi, Qichao Yao, and Linhao Zhong
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 2059–2075, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2059-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2059-2026, 2026
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11 Mar 2026
CHANS-SD-YRB V1.0: a system dynamics model of the coupled human-natural systems for the Yellow River Basin
Shan Sang, Yan Li, Shuang Zong, Lu Yu, Shuai Wang, Yanxu Liu, Xutong Wu, Shuang Song, Wenwu Zhao, Xuhui Wang, and Bojie Fu
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 2039–2058, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2039-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2039-2026, 2026
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11 Mar 2026
Validation of the ALARO1-SFX (CY43T2) regional climate model over Belgium across different resolutions
Wout Dewettinck, Hans Van de Vyver, Daan Degrauwe, Rafiq Hamdi, Michiel Van Ginderachter, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Kobe Vandelanotte, Steven Caluwaerts, and Piet Termonia
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2043,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2043, 2026
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Mar 2026
Assimilation of ground based lidar and ceilometer observations of aerosols from the European E-Profile network into ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS-COMPO, CY49R1)
Michael Kahnert, Melanie Ades, Mickaël Bacles, Johannes Flemming, Vincent Guidard, Alexander Haefele, Robin J. Hogan, Samuel Rémy, and Eric Sauvageat
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6077,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6077, 2026
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Mar 2026
Deploying Machine Learning components coupled to Earth System Models with OASIS3-MCT (v6) and Eophis (v1.1)
Alexis Barge, Julien Le Sommer, Andrea Storto, and Sophie Valcke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-854,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-854, 2026
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News

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

13 Feb 2026 University of Western Ontario partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

Copernicus Publications has signed a new agreement with Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario, providing a 50% APC reduction for eligible corresponding authors submitting from 1 January 2026. Please read more.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.