L. Menut, A. Cholakian, R. Pennel, G. Siour, S. Mailler, M. Valari, L. Lugon, Y. Meurdesoif
{"title":"The CHIMERE chemistry-transport model v2023r1","authors":"L. Menut, A. Cholakian, R. Pennel, G. Siour, S. Mailler, M. Valari, L. Lugon, Y. Meurdesoif","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5431-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5431-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A new version of the CHIMERE model is presented. This version contains both computational and physico-chemical changes. The computational changes make it easy to choose the variables to be extracted as a result, including values of maximum sub-hourly concentrations. Performance tests show that the model is 1.5 to 2 times faster than the previous version for the same setup. Processes such as turbulence, transport schemes and dry deposition have been modified and updated. Optimization was also performed for the management of emissions such as anthropogenic and mineral dust. The impact of fires on wind speed, soil properties and leaf area index (LAI) was added. Pollen emissions, transport and deposition were added for birch, ragweed, olive and grass. The model is validated with a simulation covering Europe with a 60 km × 60 km resolution and the entire year of 2019. Results are compared to various measurements, and statistical scores show that the model provides better results than the previous versions.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":" 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141831482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dongyu Zheng, A. Merdith, Y. Goddéris, Y. Donnadieu, Khushboo Gurung, Benjamin J. W. Mills
{"title":"Using deep learning to integrate paleoclimate and global biogeochemistry over the Phanerozoic Eon","authors":"Dongyu Zheng, A. Merdith, Y. Goddéris, Y. Donnadieu, Khushboo Gurung, Benjamin J. W. Mills","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5413-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5413-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Databases of 3D paleoclimate model simulations are increasingly used within global biogeochemical models for the Phanerozoic Eon. This improves the accuracy of the surface processes within the biogeochemical models, but the approach is limited by the availability of large numbers of paleoclimate simulations at different pCO2 levels and for different continental configurations. In this paper we apply the Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM) deep learning method to a set of Phanerozoic paleoclimate model simulations to upscale their time resolution from one model run every ∼25 million years to one model run every 1 million years (Myr). Testing the method on a 5 Myr time-resolution set of continental configurations and paleoclimates confirms the accuracy of our approach when reconstructing intermediate frames from configurations separated by up to 40 Myr. We then apply the method to upscale the paleoclimate data structure in the SCION climate-biogeochemical model. The interpolated surface temperature and runoff are reasonable and present a logical progression between the original key frames. When updated to use the high-time-resolution climate data structure, the SCION model predicts climate shifts that were not present in the original model outputs due to its previous use of widely spaced datasets and simple linear interpolation. We conclude that a time resolution of ∼10 Myr in Phanerozoic paleoclimate simulations is likely sufficient for investigating the long-term carbon cycle and that deep learning methods may be critical in attaining this time resolution at reasonable computational expense, as well as for developing new fully continuous methods in which 3D continental processes are able to translate over a moving continental surface in deep time. However, the efficacy of deep learning methods in interpolating runoff data, compared to that of paleogeography and temperature, is diminished by the heterogeneous distribution of runoff. Consequently, interpolated climates must be confirmed by running a paleoclimate model if scientific conclusions are to be based directly on them.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"5 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141642071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel F. Rios Gaona, K. Michaelides, M. B. Singer
{"title":"STORM v.2: A simple, stochastic rainfall model for exploring the impacts of climate and climate change at and near the land surface in gauged watersheds","authors":"Manuel F. Rios Gaona, K. Michaelides, M. B. Singer","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5387-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5387-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Climate change is expected to have major impacts on land surface and subsurface processes through its expression in the hydrological cycle, but the impacts to any particular basin or region are highly uncertain. Non-stationarities in the frequency, magnitude, duration, and timing of rainfall events have important implications for human societies, water resources, and ecosystems. The conventional approach for assessing the impacts of climate change is to downscale global climate model output and use it to drive regional and local models that express the climate within hydrology near the land surface. While this approach may be useful for linking global general circulation models to the regional hydrological cycle, it is limited for examining the details of hydrological response to climate forcing for a specific location over timescales relevant to decision-makers. For example, the management of a flood or a drought hazard requires detailed information that includes uncertainty based on the variability in storm characteristics rather than on the differences between models within an ensemble. To fill this gap, we present the second version of our STOchastic Rainfall Model (STORM), an open-source and user-friendly modelling framework for simulating a climatic expression as rainfall fields over a basin. This work showcases the use of STORM in simulating ensembles of realistic sequences, and spatial patterns of rainstorms for current climate conditions, and bespoke climate change scenarios that are likely to affect the water balance near the Earth's surface. We outline and detail STORM's new approaches as follows: one copula for linking marginal distributions of storm intensity and duration; orographic stratification of rainfall using the copula approach; a radial decay rate for rainfall intensity which takes into consideration potential, but unrecorded, maximum storm intensities; an optional component to simulate storm start dates and times via circular/directional statistics; and a simple implementation for modelling future climate scenarios. We also introduce a new pre-processing module that facilitates the generation of model input in the form of probability density functions (PDFs) from historical data for subsequent stochastic sampling. Independent validation showed that the average performance of STORM falls within 5.5 % of the historical seasonal total rainfall in the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (Arizona, USA) that occurred in the current century.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141653990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Ťupek, A. Lehtonen, Alla Yurova, R. Abramoff, Bertrand Guenet, E. Bruni, S. Launiainen, M. Peltoniemi, Shoji Hashimoto, Xianglin Tian, Juha Heikkinen, Kari Minkkinen, R. Mäkipää
{"title":"Modelling boreal forest's mineral soil and peat C dynamics with the Yasso07 model coupled with the Ricker moisture modifier","authors":"B. Ťupek, A. Lehtonen, Alla Yurova, R. Abramoff, Bertrand Guenet, E. Bruni, S. Launiainen, M. Peltoniemi, Shoji Hashimoto, Xianglin Tian, Juha Heikkinen, Kari Minkkinen, R. Mäkipää","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5349-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5349-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. As soil microbial respiration is the major component of land CO2 emissions, differences in the functional dependence of respiration on soil moisture among Earth system models (ESMs) contributes significantly to the uncertainties in their projections. Using soil organic C (SOC) stocks and CO2 data from a boreal forest–mire ecotone in Finland and Bayesian data assimilation, we revised the original precipitation-based monotonic saturation dependency of the Yasso07 soil carbon model using the non-monotonic Ricker function based on soil volumetric water content. We fit the revised functional dependency of moisture to the observed microbial respiration and SOC stocks and compared its performance against the original Yasso07 model and the version used in the JSBACH land surface model with a reduction constant for decomposition rates in wetlands. The Yasso07 soil C model coupled with the calibrated unimodal Ricker moisture function with an optimum in well-drained soils accurately reconstructed observed SOC stocks and soil CO2 emissions and clearly outperformed previous model versions on paludified organo-mineral soils in forested peatlands and water-saturated organic soils in mires. The best estimate of the posterior moisture response of decomposition used both measurements of SOC stocks and CO2 data from the full range of moisture conditions (from dry and xeric to wet and water-saturated soils). We observed unbiased residuals of SOC and CO2 data modelled with the moisture optimum in well-drained soils, suggesting that this modified function accounts more precisely for the long-term SOC change dependency according to ecosystem properties as well as the contribution of short-term CO2 responses including extreme events. The optimum moisture for decomposition in boreal forests was found in well-drained soils instead of the mid-range between dry and water-saturated conditions as is commonly assumed among soil C and ESMs. Although the unimodal moisture modifier with an optimum in well-drained soils implicitly incorporates robust biogeochemical mechanisms of SOC accumulation and CO2 emissions, it needs further evaluation with large-scale data to determine if its use in land surface models will decrease the uncertainty in projections.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"81 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. A. Sokolowsky, Sean W. Freeman, W. Jones, Julia Kukulies, Fabian Senf, P. Marinescu, M. Heikenfeld, K. Brunner, Eric C. Bruning, Scott M. Collis, Robert C. Jackson, G. R. Leung, Nils Pfeifer, B. Raut, S. Saleeby, Philip Stier, S. C. van den Heever
{"title":"tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena","authors":"G. A. Sokolowsky, Sean W. Freeman, W. Jones, Julia Kukulies, Fabian Senf, P. Marinescu, M. Heikenfeld, K. Brunner, Eric C. Bruning, Scott M. Collis, Robert C. Jackson, G. R. Leung, Nils Pfeifer, B. Raut, S. Saleeby, Philip Stier, S. C. van den Heever","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. There is a continuously increasing need for reliable feature detection and tracking tools based on objective analysis principles for use with meteorological data. Many tools have been developed over the previous 2 decades that attempt to address this need but most have limitations on the type of data they can be used with, feature computational and/or memory expenses that make them unwieldy with larger datasets, or require some form of data reduction prior to use that limits the tool's utility. The Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds (tobac) Python package is a modular, open-source tool that improves on the overall generality and utility of past tools. A number of scientific improvements (three spatial dimensions, splits and mergers of features, an internal spectral filtering tool) and procedural enhancements (increased computational efficiency, internal regridding of data, and treatments for periodic boundary conditions) have been included in tobac as a part of the tobac v1.5 update. These improvements have made tobac one of the most robust, powerful, and flexible identification and tracking tools in our field to date and expand its potential use in other fields. Future plans for tobac v2 are also discussed.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"142 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141656155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New routine NLTE15µmCool-E v1.0 for calculating the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) CO2 15 µm cooling in general circulation models (GCMs) of Earth's atmosphere","authors":"A. Kutepov, A. Feofilov","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5331-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5331-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. We present a new routine for calculating the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) 15 µm CO2 cooling–heating of mesosphere and lower thermosphere in general circulation models. It uses the optimized models of the non-LTE in CO2 for day and night conditions and delivers cooling–heating with an error not exceeding 1 K d−1 even for strong temperature disturbances. The routine uses the accelerated lambda iteration and opacity distribution function techniques for the exact solution of the non-LTE problem and is about 1000 times faster than the standard matrix and line-by-line solution. It has an interface for feedbacks from the model and is ready for implementation. It may use any quenching rate coefficient of the CO2(ν2)+O(3P) reaction, handles large variations in O(3P), and allows the user to vary the number of vibrational levels and bands to find a balance between the calculation speed and accuracy. The suggested routine can handle the broad variation in CO2 both below and above the current volume mixing ratio, up to 4000 ppmv. This allows the use of this routine for modeling Earth's ancient atmospheres and the climate changes caused by increasing CO2.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"88 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, M. Montoya, Konstantin Latychev, Alexander Robinson, J. Alvarez-Solas, Jerry Mitrovica
{"title":"FastIsostasy v1.0 – a regional, accelerated 2D glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) model accounting for the lateral variability of the solid Earth","authors":"Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, M. Montoya, Konstantin Latychev, Alexander Robinson, J. Alvarez-Solas, Jerry Mitrovica","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5263-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5263-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The vast majority of ice-sheet modelling studies rely on simplified representations of the glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which, among other limitations, do not account for lateral variations in the lithospheric thickness and upper-mantle viscosity. In studies of the last glacial cycle using 3D GIA models, this has however been shown to have major impacts on the dynamics of marine-based sectors of Antarctica, which are likely to be the greatest contributors to sea-level rise in the coming centuries. This gap in comprehensiveness is explained by the fact that 3D GIA models are computationally expensive, rarely open-source and require a complex coupling scheme. To close this gap between “best” and “tractable” GIA models, we propose FastIsostasy here, a regional GIA model capturing lateral variations in the lithospheric thickness and mantle viscosity. By means of fast Fourier transforms and a hybrid collocation scheme to solve its underlying partial differential equation, FastIsostasy can simulate 100 000 years of high-resolution bedrock displacement in only minutes of single-CPU computation, including the changes in sea-surface height due to mass redistribution. Despite its 2D grid, FastIsostasy parameterises the depth-dependent viscosity and therefore represents the depth dimension to a certain extent. FastIsostasy is benchmarked here against analytical, as well as 1D and 3D numerical solutions, and shows good agreement with them. For a simulation of the last glacial cycle, its mean and maximal error over time and space respectively yield less than 5 % and 16 % compared to a 3D GIA model over the regional solution domain. FastIsostasy is open-source, is documented with many examples and provides a straightforward interface for coupling to an ice-sheet model. The model is benchmarked here based on its implementation in Julia, while a Fortran version is also provided to allow for compatibility with most existing ice-sheet models. The Julia version provides additional features, including a vast library of adaptive time-stepping methods and GPU support.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"77 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fluvial flood inundation and socio-economic impact model based on open data","authors":"Lukas Riedel, T. Röösli, Thomas Vogt, D. Bresch","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5291-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5291-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Fluvial floods are destructive hazards that affect millions of people worldwide each year. Forecasting flood events and their potential impacts therefore is crucial for disaster preparation and mitigation. Modeling flood inundation based on extreme value analysis of river discharges is an alternative to physical models of flood dynamics, which are computationally expensive. We present the implementation of a globally applicable, open-source fluvial flood model within a state-of-the-art risk modeling framework. It uses openly available data to rapidly compute flood inundation footprints of historic and forecasted events for the estimation of associated impacts. For the example of Pakistan, we use this flood model to compute flood depths and extents and employ it to estimate population displacement due to floods. Comparing flood extents to satellite data reveals that incorporating estimated flood protection standards does not necessarily improve the flood footprint computed by the model. We further show that, after calibrating the vulnerability of the impact model to a single event, the estimated displacement caused by past floods is in good agreement with disaster reports. Finally, we demonstrate that this calibrated model is suited for probabilistic impact-based forecasting.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"13 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Schwemmle, H. Leistert, Andreas Steinbrich, Markus Weiler
{"title":"RoGeR v3.0.5 – a process-based hydrological toolbox model in Python","authors":"R. Schwemmle, H. Leistert, Andreas Steinbrich, Markus Weiler","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5249-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5249-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Although water availability and water quality are equally important for effective water resources management at various spatial and temporal scales, to date, a combined representation of soil water balance components and water quality components in Python is not available. The new RoGeR toolbox contains models that can be used for not only the quantification of hydrological processes, fluxes and stores, but also solute transport processes based on StorAge selection (SAS). This study presents the code structure and functionalities of RoGeR developed as a scientific model toolbox following defined open-source software guidelines. RoGeR uses five different computational backends covering just-in-time compilation, parallelism and graphical processing units (GPUs) that might be used for optimizing computational performance. We show that graphical processing unit computing has the greatest potential to improve computation time and energy usage, especially for large modelling experiments. A simple modelling experiment highlights the capabilities of the new RoGeR model toolbox. We simulated the soil water balance, stable water isotope (18O) transport, and corresponding travel time distributions of the Eberbaechle catchment, Germany, for a 3-year period. Due to the current limitations of a variety of process components, further development of RoGeR as a scientific software is needed. Future modifications are easily possible due to the open software architecture of RoGeR.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"64 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Uttal, L. Hartten, S. Khalsa, Barbara Casati, Gunilla Svensson, Jonathan Day, Jareth I. Holt, Elena Akish, Sara Morris, Ewan O’Connor, Roberta Pirazzini, Laura X. Huang, Robert Crawford, Z. Mariani, Øystein Godøy, Johanna Tjernström, Giri Prakash, N. Hickmon, M. Maturilli, Christopher J. Cox
{"title":"Merged Observatory Data Files (MODFs): an integrated observational data product supporting process-oriented investigations and diagnostics","authors":"T. Uttal, L. Hartten, S. Khalsa, Barbara Casati, Gunilla Svensson, Jonathan Day, Jareth I. Holt, Elena Akish, Sara Morris, Ewan O’Connor, Roberta Pirazzini, Laura X. Huang, Robert Crawford, Z. Mariani, Øystein Godøy, Johanna Tjernström, Giri Prakash, N. Hickmon, M. Maturilli, Christopher J. Cox","doi":"10.5194/gmd-17-5225-2024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5225-2024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A large and ever-growing body of geophysical information is measured in campaigns and at specialized observatories as a part of scientific expeditions and experiments. These collections of observed data include many essential climate variables (as defined by the Global Climate Observing System) but are often distinguished by a wide range of additional non-routine measurements that are designed to not only document the state of the environment but also the drivers that contribute to that state. These field data are used not only to further understand environmental processes through observation-based studies but also to provide baseline data to test model performance and to codify understanding to improve predictive capabilities. To address the considerable barriers and difficulty in utilizing these diverse and complex data for observation–model research, the Merged Observatory Data File (MODF) concept has been developed. A MODF combines measurements from multiple instruments into a single file that complies with well-established data format and metadata practices and has been designed to parallel the development of corresponding Merged Model Data Files (MMDFs). Using the MODF and MMDF protocols will facilitate the evolution of model intercomparison projects into model intercomparison and improvement projects by putting observation and model data “on the same page” in a timely manner. The MODF concept was developed especially for weather forecast model studies in the Arctic. The surprisingly complex process of implementing MODFs in that context refined the concept itself. Thus, this article explains the concept of MODFs by providing details on the issues that were revealed and resolved during that first specific implementation. Detailed instructions are provided on how to make MODFs, and this article can be considered a MODF creation manual.\u0000","PeriodicalId":509138,"journal":{"name":"Geoscientific Model Development","volume":"120 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}