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| Titel |
Geoscientific Model Development - a journal about models, for modellers |
| VerfasserIn |
Daniel Lunt, James Annan  , Julia Hargreaves, Ian Rutt, Rolf Sander |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2010
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 12 (2010) |
| Datensatznummer |
250040999
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The journal Geoscientific Model Development arose from the observation that despite
modelling being central to climate/earth system science, the models themselves are not
generally subject to the same level of scrutiny and peer review as the results they generate.
Model descriptions are generally (with some exceptions) difficult to publish independent
from scientific results, and so are necessarily space-limited when they do appear.
Consequently, it is not uncommon that the description of a given model is spread
across several papers, and crucial aspects of the formulation may not be published at
all. Issues of reproducibility, platform-dependence, version proliferation and the
various fudges and corrections often needed in modelling, are rarely addressed in the
literature.
GMD aims to change this by providing a place to publish detailed, peer-reviewed
descriptions of numerical models, including verification and validation. Model
developers can publish an initial description of a numbered version of their model, and
address subsequent changes with a sequence of update papers. Thus, a body of
citable literature can be developed which provides an authoritative reference for a
given version of the model, greatly improving traceability and giving confidence in
the provenance of the code. An additional benefit is that the citations generated
will at last recognise the important contribution which model developers make to
science.
The publication process is typical for an open access EGU journal: papers are
initially published in an on-line discussion journal (Geoscientific Model Development
Discussions), for a period of eight weeks. Anonymous reviews are solicited as normal, but
are also published in the discussion journal. Anyone else may contribute to the
discussions, if they wish. After the discussion period, the revision/review process operates
as normal, until the paper is finally accepted or rejected by the handling topical
editor.
In this paper we describe the journal, and present statistics of submissions, papers
accepted etc. since its first issue in 2008.
For more details, see http://www.geoscientific-model-development.net |
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