Communications of the ACM
Making Climate Models Open Source Makes Them Even More seful
A new framework of climate models contains models that are easy to obtain, completely free, documented, and come with software to make installation and running easier.
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An open source set of climate models has allowed research to become more collaborative, efficient, and reliable.
Researchers from the University of Exeter in Britain, New York University, and the University of Melbourne have built a framework of climate models called Isca, which contains models that are easy to obtain, free, documented, and come with software to make installation and running easier.
The time it would take for everyone to build their own version of the same model can now be used to extend the existing models. More sets of eyes on one model means errors can be quickly identified and corrected. The time saved also could be used to build new analysis software, which can extract new information from existing simulations.
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