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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)

IF value: 6.892
IF6.892
IF 5-year value: 8.622
IF 5-year8.622
CiteScore value: 9.5
CiteScore9.5
h5-index value: 70
h5-index70
GMD per-paper APC pilot 2021
To help authors know the article processing charges (APCs) levied for their final journal article already from submission, the EGU and Copernicus test a per-paper APC model for manuscripts submitted to GMD from 1 January 2021. The standard fee will be €1,600 net, independent of the article length. Please find further information about this pilot.

Highlight articles

17 May 2023
| Highlight paper
Pace v0.2: a Python-based performance-portable atmospheric model
Johann Dahm, Eddie Davis, Florian Deconinck, Oliver Elbert, Rhea George, Jeremy McGibbon, Tobias Wicky, Elynn Wu, Christopher Kung, Tal Ben-Nun, Lucas Harris, Linus Groner, and Oliver Fuhrer
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 2719–2736, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2719-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2719-2023, 2023
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20 Apr 2023
| Highlight paper
Causal deep learning models for studying the Earth system
Tobias Tesch, Stefan Kollet, and Jochen Garcke
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 2149–2166, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2149-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2149-2023, 2023
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09 Mar 2023
| Review and perspective paper
| Highlight paper
Reproducible and relocatable regional ocean modelling: fundamentals and practices
Jeff Polton, James Harle, Jason Holt, Anna Katavouta, Dale Partridge, Jenny Jardine, Sarah Wakelin, Julia Rulent, Anthony Wise, Katherine Hutchinson, David Byrne, Diego Bruciaferri, Enda O'Dea, Michela De Dominicis, Pierre Mathiot, Andrew Coward, Andrew Yool, Julien Palmiéri, Gennadi Lessin, Claudia Gabriela Mayorga-Adame, Valérie Le Guennec, Alex Arnold, and Clément Rousset
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1481–1510, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1481-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1481-2023, 2023
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03 Mar 2023
| Highlight paper
Porting the WAVEWATCH III (v6.07) wave action source terms to GPU
Olawale James Ikuyajolu, Luke Van Roekel, Steven R. Brus, Erin E. Thomas, Yi Deng, and Sarat Sreepathi
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1445–1458, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1445-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1445-2023, 2023
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30 Jan 2023
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Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling
Varun Sharma, Franziska Gerber, and Michael Lehning
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 719–749, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-719-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-719-2023, 2023
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Recent papers

06 Jun 2023
The statistical emulators of GGCMI phase 2: responses of year-to-year variation of crop yield to CO2, temperature, water and nitrogen perturbations
Weihang Liu, Tao Ye, Christoph Müller, Jonas Jägermeyr, James A. Franke, Haynes Stephens, and Shuo Chen
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-74,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-74, 2023
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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06 Jun 2023
Modelling below-cloud scavenging of size resolved particles in GEM-MACHv3.1
Roya Ghahreman, Wanmin Gong, Paul A. Makar, Alexandru Lupu, Amanda Cole, Kulbir Banwait, Colin Lee, and Ayodeji Akingunola
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-86,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-86, 2023
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Jun 2023
How is a global sensitivity analysis of a catchment-scale, distributed pesticide transfer model performed? Application to the PESHMELBA model
Emilie Rouzies, Claire Lauvernet, Bruno Sudret, and Arthur Vidard
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 3137–3163, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3137-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3137-2023, 2023
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05 Jun 2023
DEUCE v1.0: A neural network for probabilistic precipitation nowcasting with aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties
Bent Harnist, Seppo Pulkkinen, and Terhi Mäkinen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1100,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1100, 2023
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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05 Jun 2023
The NOAA Aerosol Reanalysis version 1.0 (NARA v1.0): Description of the Modeling System and its Evaluation
Shih-Wei Wei, Mariusz Pagowski, Arlindo da Silva, Cheng-Hsuan Lu, and Bo Huang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-356,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-356, 2023
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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14 Feb 2023 Journal website facelift

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14 Feb 2023 Journal website facelift

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01 Sep 2022 Institutional agreement between ETH Domain institutions and Copernicus Publications

The ETH Domain institutions PSI, Empa, Eawag, WSL and Copernicus Publications have signed an agreement on the central settlement of article processing charges (APCs).

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