Executive editors: Julia Hargreaves, Lutz Gross, David Ham, Astrid Kerkweg, 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
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
21 Aug 2018
Developing a global operational seasonal hydro-meteorological forecasting system: GloFAS-Seasonal v1.0
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3327-3346, 2018
08 May 2018
Crossing the chasm: how to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers?
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 1799-1821, 2018
Recent articles
16 Nov 2018
Dynamically coupling full Stokes and shallow shelf approximation for marine ice sheet flow using Elmer/Ice (v8.3)
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4563-4576, 2018
16 Nov 2018
The NASA Eulerian Snow on Sea Ice Model (NESOSIM) v1.0: initial model development and analysis
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4577-4602, 2018
16 Nov 2018
Global simulation of tropospheric chemistry at 12.5 km resolution: performance and evaluation of the GEOS-Chem chemical module (v10-1) within the NASA GEOS Earth system model (GEOS-5 ESM)
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4603-4620, 2018
13 Nov 2018
Evaluation of Monte Carlo tools for high-energy atmospheric physics II: relativistic runaway electron avalanches
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4515-4535, 2018
13 Nov 2018
A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios
Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4537-4562, 2018
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