Executive editors: Didier Roche, David Ham, Julia Hargreaves, Astrid Kerkweg, 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
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
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
Recent papers
16 Jul 2019
SEAMUS (v1.0): a Δ14C-enabled, single-specimen sediment accumulation simulator
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
15 Jul 2019
Scientific workflows applied to the coupling of a continuum (Elmer v8.3) and a discrete element (HiDEM v1.0) ice dynamic model
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3001-3015, 2019
15 Jul 2019
Modelling northern peatland area and carbon dynamics since the Holocene with the ORCHIDEE-PEAT land surface model (SVN r5488)
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 2961-2982, 2019
15 Jul 2019
A simplified parameterization of isoprene-epoxydiol-derived secondary organic aerosol (IEPOX-SOA) for global chemistry and climate models: a case study with GEOS-Chem v11-02-rc
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 2983-3000, 2019
15 Jul 2019
Efficiency and robustness in Monte Carlo sampling for 3-D geophysical inversions with Obsidian v0.1.2: setting up for success
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 2941-2960, 2019
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