Executive editors: Julia Hargreaves, Lutz Gross, David Ham, Astrid Kerkweg, Didier Roche & Rolf Sander
Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) is an 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)
Highlight articles
10 Dec 2018
ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5027-5049, 2018
18 Sep 2018
MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): a variable-resolution ice sheet model for Earth system modeling using Voronoi grids
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3747-3780, 2018
18 Sep 2018
sympl (v. 0.4.0) and climt (v. 0.15.3) – towards a flexible framework for building model hierarchies in Python
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3781-3794, 2018
30 Aug 2018
The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3481-3496, 2018
21 Aug 2018
Developing a global operational seasonal hydro-meteorological forecasting system: GloFAS-Seasonal v1.0
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3327-3346, 2018
Recent articles
13 Dec 2018
Optimizing shrub parameters to estimate gross primary production of the sagebrush ecosystem using the Ecosystem Demography (EDv2.2) model
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2018
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
12 Dec 2018
OLYMPUS v1.0: development of an integrated air pollutant and GHG urban emissions model – methodology and calibration over greater Paris
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5085-5111, 2018
11 Dec 2018
Evaluation of iterative Kalman smoother schemes for multi-decadal past climate analysis with comprehensive Earth system models
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5051-5084, 2018
10 Dec 2018
ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5027-5049, 2018
10 Dec 2018
Optimization of the WRFV3.7 adjoint model
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2018
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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