Executive editors: Didier Roche, David Ham, Julia Hargreaves, Astrid Kerkweg, Min-Hui Lo, Richard Neale & Rolf Sander
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)
Highlight articles
14 Oct 2019
The biophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry of functionally diverse, vertically and horizontally heterogeneous ecosystems: the Ecosystem Demography model, version 2.2 – Part 1: Model description
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4309–4346, 2019
02 Sep 2019
Improved methodologies for Earth system modelling of atmospheric soluble iron and observation comparisons using the Mechanism of Intermediate complexity for Modelling Iron (MIMI v1.0)
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3835–3862, 2019
03 Apr 2019
Terrainbento 1.0: a Python package for multi-model analysis in long-term drainage basin evolution
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1267–1297, 2019
27 Mar 2019
Devito (v3.1.0): an embedded domain-specific language for finite differences and geophysical exploration
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1165–1187, 2019
Recent papers
20 Nov 2019
Accounting for carbon and nitrogen interactions in the global terrestrial ecosystem model ORCHIDEE (trunk version, rev 4999): multi-scale evaluation of gross primary production
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4751–4779, 2019
20 Nov 2019
A new model of the coupled carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles in the terrestrial biosphere (QUINCY v1.0; revision 1996)
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4781–4802, 2019
19 Nov 2019
The Sailor diagram. An extension of Taylor’s diagram to two-dimensional vector data
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
18 Nov 2019
HERMESv3, a stand-alone multiscale atmospheric emission
modelling framework – Part 2: bottom-up module
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
15 Nov 2019
On the calculation of normalized viscous-plastic sea ice stresses
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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