Model Development and Documentation Sample Clauses

Model Development and Documentation. A major aim of the community is to systematically further develop the regional climate model COSMO-CLM through continuously improving individual model components and by extending additional process modules. In this section, general rules are summarized, which have to be fulfilled by code developers. An additional document “COSMO Standards for Source Code Development” (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2011) explains the rules in more detail.1

Model Development and Documentation. A major aim of the CLM-Community is to develop the CLM-Community models systematically by continuously improving individual model components and by extending the CLM-Community models with additional process modules. All members are allowed to change the code of the CLM-Community models for test purposes, for required adaptations and extensions as well as for the general improvements of the model quality. However, the procedure of model development in the community has to follow certain rules to prevent double or redundant work. These rules guide the member from the first idea to a new version of a CLM-Community model. They are explicitly described in the currently valid version of the “COSMO Standards for Source Code Development5” for COSMO and in the “Development partnership agreement between DWD and the CLM-Community with respect to the ICON software”1 (Appendix C) for ICON.