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Geoscientific Model Development An interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union
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  • IF value: 4.252 IF 4.252
  • IF 5-year value: 4.890 IF 5-year
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  • CiteScore value: 4.49 CiteScore
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  • SNIP value: 1.539 SNIP 1.539
  • SJR value: 2.404 SJR 2.404
  • IPP value: 4.28 IPP 4.28
  • h5-index value: 40 h5-index 40
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Open access Public peer review Article level metrics Moderate APCs
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
Gerhard Krinner, Chris Derksen, Richard Essery, Mark Flanner, Stefan Hagemann, Martyn Clark, Alex Hall, Helmut Rott, Claire Brutel-Vuilmet, Hyungjun Kim, Cécile B. Ménard, Lawrence Mudryk, Chad Thackeray, Libo Wang, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Paul Bartlett, Julia Boike, Aaron Boone, Frédérique Chéruy, Jeanne Colin, Matthias Cuntz, Yongjiu Dai, Bertrand Decharme, Jeff Derry, Agnès Ducharne, Emanuel Dutra, Xing Fang, Charles Fierz, Josephine Ghattas, Yeugeniy Gusev, Vanessa Haverd, Anna Kontu, Matthieu Lafaysse, Rachel Law, Dave Lawrence, Weiping Li, Thomas Marke, Danny Marks, Martin Ménégoz, Olga Nasonova, Tomoko Nitta, Masashi Niwano, John Pomeroy, Mark S. Raleigh, Gerd Schaedler, Vladimir Semenov, Tanya G. Smirnova, Tobias Stacke, Ulrich Strasser, Sean Svenson, Dmitry Turkov, Tao Wang, Nander Wever, Hua Yuan, Wenyan Zhou, and Dan Zhu
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5027-5049, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-5027-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-5027-2018, 2018
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18 Sep 2018
MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): a variable-resolution ice sheet model for Earth system modeling using Voronoi grids
Matthew J. Hoffman, Mauro Perego, Stephen F. Price, William H. Lipscomb, Tong Zhang, Douglas Jacobsen, Irina Tezaur, Andrew G. Salinger, Raymond Tuminaro, and Luca Bertagna
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3747-3780, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3747-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3747-2018, 2018
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18 Sep 2018
sympl (v. 0.4.0) and climt (v. 0.15.3) – towards a flexible framework for building model hierarchies in Python
Joy Merwin Monteiro, Jeremy McGibbon, and Rodrigo Caballero
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3781-3794, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3781-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3781-2018, 2018
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30 Aug 2018
The Variable Infiltration Capacity model version 5 (VIC-5): infrastructure improvements for new applications and reproducibility
Joseph J. Hamman, Bart Nijssen, Theodore J. Bohn, Diana R. Gergel, and Yixin Mao
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3481-3496, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3481-2018, 2018
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21 Aug 2018
Developing a global operational seasonal hydro-meteorological forecasting system: GloFAS-Seasonal v1.0
Rebecca Emerton, Ervin Zsoter, Louise Arnal, Hannah L. Cloke, Davide Muraro, Christel Prudhomme, Elisabeth M. Stephens, Peter Salamon, and Florian Pappenberger
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3327-3346, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3327-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3327-2018, 2018
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Recent papers
19 Feb 2019
Similarities within a multi-model ensemble: functional data analysis framework
Eva Holtanová, Thomas Mendlik, Jan Koláček, Ivanka Horová, and Jiří Mikšovský
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 735-747, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-735-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-735-2019, 2019
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19 Feb 2019
Stochastic ensemble climate forecast with an analogue model
Pascal Yiou and Céline Déandréis
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 723-734, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-723-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-723-2019, 2019
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18 Feb 2019
A single-column ocean biogeochemistry model (GOTM–TOPAZ) version 1.0
Hyun-Chae Jung, Byung-Kwon Moon, Jieun Wie, Hyei-Sun Park, Johan Lee, and Young-Hwa Byun
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 699-722, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-699-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-699-2019, 2019
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15 Feb 2019
GCAM v5.1: representing the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems
Katherine Calvin, Pralit Patel, Leon Clarke, Ghassem Asrar, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Ryna Yiyun Cui, Alan Di Vittorio, Kalyn Dorheim, Jae Edmonds, Corinne Hartin, Mohamad Hejazi, Russell Horowitz, Gokul Iyer, Page Kyle, Sonny Kim, Robert Link, Haewon McJeon, Steven J. Smith, Abigail Snyder, Stephanie Waldhoff, and Marshall Wise
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 677-698, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-677-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-677-2019, 2019
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15 Feb 2019
How to use mixed precision in Ocean Models
Oriol Tintó Prims, Mario C. Acosta, Andrew M. Moore, Miguel Castrillo, Kim Serradell, Ana Cortés, and Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-20,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-20, 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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16 Jan 2019 SUB Göttingen and Copernicus Publications introduced the National Consortium for Central Payment Processing of Article Processing Charges on 1 January 2019

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Copernicus Publications recently launched its full-text HTML workflow and optimized the GMD website for mobile devices. Thereby, the user experience is significantly enhanced when reading GMD articles.

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