Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
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Executive editors: David Ham, Juan Antonio Añel, Astrid Kerkweg, Min-Hui Lo, Richard Neale, Rolf Sander & Paul Ullrich
eISSN: 1991-9603

Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) is a not-for-profit 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)

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Highlight articles

29 Jul 2026
A global high-resolution hydrological model to simulate the dynamics of surface liquid reservoirs: application on Mars
Alexandre Gauvain, François Forget, Martin Turbet, Jean-Baptiste Clément, Lucas Lange, and Romain Vandemeulebrouck
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 6909–6940, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6909-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6909-2026, 2026
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18 May 2026
Love number computation within the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM v4.24)
Lambert Caron, Erik Ivins, Eric Larour, Surendra Adhikari, and Laurent Métivier
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 4031–4054, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4031-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-4031-2026, 2026
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14 Apr 2026
The Destination Earth digital twin for climate change adaptation
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Jenni Kontkanen, Irina Sandu, Mario Acosta, Mohammed Hussam Al Turjmam, Ivan Alsina-Ferrer, Miguel Andrés-Martínez, Costanza Anerdi, Leo Arriola, Marvin Axness, Marc Batlle Martín, Peter Bauer, Tobias Becker, Daniel Beltrán, Sebastian Beyer, Hendryk Bockelmann, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Sebastien Cabaniols, Silvia Caprioli, Miguel Castrillo, Aparna Chandrasekar, Suvarchal Cheedela, Victor Correal, Emanuele Danovaro, Paolo Davini, Jussi Enkovaara, Claudia Frauen, Barbara Früh, Aina Gaya Àvila, Paolo Ghinassi, Rohit Ghosh, Supriyo Ghosh, Iker González, Katherine Grayson, Matthew Griffith, Ioan Hadade, Christopher Haine, Carl Hartick, Utz-Uwe Haus, Shane Hearne, Heikki Järvinen, Bernat Jiménez, Amal John, Marlin Juchem, Thomas Jung, Jessica Kegel, Matthias Kelbling, Kai Keller, Bruno Kinoshita, Theresa Kiszler, Daniel Klocke, Lukas Kluft, Nikolay Koldunov, Tobias Kölling, Joonas Kolstela, Luis Kornblueh, Sergey Kosukhin, Aleksander Lacima-Nadolnik, Jeisson Javier Leal Rojas, Jonni Lehtiranta, Tuomas Lunttila, Anna Luoma, Pekka Manninen, Alexey Medvedev, Sebastian Milinski, Ali Mohammed, Sebastian Müller, Devaraju Naryanappa, Natalia Nazarova, Sami Niemelä, Bimochan Niraula, Henrik Nortamo, Aleksi Nummelin, Matteo Nurisso, Pablo Ortega, Stella Paronuzzi, Xabier Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, Charles Pelletier, Carlos Peña, Suraj Polade, Himansu Kesari Pradhan, Rommel Quintanilla, Tiago Quintino, Thomas Rackow, Jouni Räisänen, Maqsood Mubarak Rajput, René Redler, Balthasar Reuter, Nuno Rocha Monteiro, Francesc Roura-Adserias, Silva Ruppert, Susan Sayed, Reiner Schnur, Tanvi Sharma, Dmitry Sidorenko, Outi Sievi-Korte, Albert Soret, Christian Steger, Bjorn Stevens, Jan Streffing, Jaleena Sunny, Luiggi Tenorio, Stephan Thober, Ulf Tigerstedt, Oriol Tinto, Juha Tonttila, Heikki Tuomenvirta, Lauri Tuppi, Ginka Van Thielen, Emanuele Vitali, Jost von Hardenberg, Ingo Wagner, Nils Wedi, Jan Wehner, Sven Willner, Xavier Yepes-Arbós, Florian Ziemen, and Janos Zimmermann
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 2821–2848, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2821-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2821-2026, 2026
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07 Apr 2026
The Scenario Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (ScenarioMIP-CMIP7)
Detlef P. Van Vuuren, Brian C. O'Neill, Claudia Tebaldi, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Louise P. Chini, Pierre Friedlingstein, Tomoko Hasegawa, Keywan Riahi, Bala Govindasamy, Nico Bauer, Veronika Eyring, Cheikh M. N. Fall, Katja Frieler, Matthew J. Gidden, Laila K. Gohar, Annika Högner, Andrew D. Jones, Jarmo Kikstra, Andrew King, Reto Knutti, Elmar Kriegler, Peter Lawrence, Chris Lennard, Jason Lowe, Camilla Mathison, Shahbaz Mehmood, Zebedee Nicholls, Luciana F. Prado, Qiang Zhang, Steven K. Rose, Alex C. Ruane, Marit Sandstad, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Roland Seferian, Jana Sillmann, Chris Smith, Anna A. Sörensson, Swapna Panickal, Kaoru Tachiiri, Naomi Vaughan, Saritha S. Vishwanathan, Tokuta Yokohata, Marco Zecchetto, and Tilo Ziehn
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 2627–2656, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2627-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-2627-2026, 2026
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12 Feb 2026
NorESM2–DIAM: a coupled model for investigating global and regional climate-economy interactions
Jenny Bjordal, Anthony A. Smith Jr., Henri Cornec, and Trude Storelvmo
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 1337–1365, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-1337-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-1337-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
RIME-X v1.0: combining simple climate models, Earth system models, and climate impact models into a unified statistical emulator for regional climate indicators
Niklas Schwind, Mahé Perrette, Edward Byers, Annika Högner, Quentin Lejeune, Tessa Möller, Zebedee Nicholls, Peter Pfleiderer, Sarah Schöngart, Michaela Werning, and Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 6797–6828, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6797-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6797-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
Spectral nudging impacts on precipitation downscaling in the Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model, version CCAM-2504: insights from summer 2011
Son C. H. Truong, Marcus J. Thatcher, Phuong Loan Nguyen, Lisa V. Alexander, and John L. McGregor
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 6991–7011, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6991-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6991-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
GEE-DisALEXI: cloud-based implementation of the DisALEXI model for evapotranspiration monitoring using Google Earth Engine
Yun Yang, Martha Anderson, Charles Morton, Yanghui Kang, Feng Gao, Weina Duan, Hui Liu, John Volk, and Christopher Hain
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 6967–6989, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6967-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6967-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026
GPU-accelerated atmospheric chemical kinetics using single precision in the ECHAM/MESSy (EMAC) model v2.55 with MEDINA v2.0
Kyriacos Sophocleous, Timo Kirfel, Domenico Taraborrelli, and Theodoros Christoudias
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2389,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2389, 2026
Preprint under review for GMD (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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29 Jul 2026
The TIPMIP Earth system model experiment protocol: phase 1
Colin Jones, Isaline Bossert, Donovan P. Dennis, Hazel A. Jeffery, Chris D. Jones, Torben Koenigk, Sina Loriani, Benjamin Sanderson, Roland Séférian, Klaus Wyser, Shuting Yang, Manabu Abe, Sebastian Bathiany, Pascale Braconnot, Victor Brovkin, Friedrich A. Burger, Patrica Cadule, Frederic S. Castruccio, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Andrea Dittus, Jonathan F. Donges, Friederike Fröb, Thomas L. Frölicher, Goran Georgievski, Chuncheng Guo, Aixue Hu, Peter Lawrence, Paul Lerner, José Licón-Saláiz, Bette Otto-Bliesner, Anastasia Romanou, Elena Shevliakova, Yona Silvy, Didier Swingedouw, Jerry Tjiputra, Jeremy Walton, Andy Wiltshire, Ricarda Winkelmann, Richard Wood, Tokuta Yokohata, and Tilo Ziehn
Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 6941–6966, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6941-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6941-2026, 2026
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30 Jul 2026 RIME-X v1.0: combining simple climate models, Earth system models, and climate impact models into a unified statistical emulator for regional climate indicators

The authors study how regional climate and climate impact indicators may respond to different emissions scenarios. Their possible outcomes are shaped by uncertainties in future emissions, global warming, regional effects of global warming, and the chaotic climate system. Please read more.

30 Jul 2026 RIME-X v1.0: combining simple climate models, Earth system models, and climate impact models into a unified statistical emulator for regional climate indicators

The authors study how regional climate and climate impact indicators may respond to different emissions scenarios. Their possible outcomes are shaped by uncertainties in future emissions, global warming, regional effects of global warming, and the chaotic climate system. Please read more.

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30 Jun 2026 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology partners with Copernicus Publications to support open-access publishing

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