Executive editors: Didier Roche, David Ham, Julia Hargreaves, Astrid Kerkweg, Richard Neale & 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
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
18 Apr 2019
Scalable diagnostics for global atmospheric chemistry using Ristretto library (version 1.0)
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1525-1539, 2019
16 Apr 2019
Ocean carbon and nitrogen isotopes in CSIRO Mk3L-COAL version 1.0: a tool for palaeoceanographic research
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1491-1523, 2019
15 Apr 2019
Multi-model simulations of springtime dust storms in East Asia: Implications of an evaluation of four commonly used air quality models (CMAQv5.2.1, CAMxv6.50, CHIMEREv2017r4, and WRF-Chem v3.9.1)
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019
Manuscript under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
12 Apr 2019
Fldgen v1.0: an emulator with internal variability and space–time correlation for Earth system models
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1477-1489, 2019
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