Executive editors: Julia Hargreaves, Lutz Gross, David Ham, Astrid Kerkweg, Richard Neale, 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
Recent papers
25 Mar 2019
Realized ecological forecast through an interactive Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data (EcoPAD, v1.0) into models
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1119-1137, 2019
25 Mar 2019
The Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project (PAMIP) contribution to CMIP6: investigating the causes and consequences of polar amplification
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1139-1164, 2019
25 Mar 2019
ORCHIDEE MICT-LEAK (r5459), a global model for the production, transport and transformation of dissolved organic carbon from Arctic permafrost regions, Part 1: Rationale, model description and simulation protocol
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
25 Mar 2019
ORCHIDEE MICT-LEAK (r5459), a global model for the production, transport and transformation of dissolved organic carbon from Arctic permafrost regions, Part 2: Model evaluation over the Lena River basin
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
25 Mar 2019
The FireWork v2.0 air quality forecast system with biomass burning
emissions from the Canadian Forest Fire Emissions Prediction System
v2.03
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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