Dear authors,

Unfortunately, after checking your manuscript, it has come to our attention that it does not comply with our "Code and Data Policy".

https://www.geoscientific-model-development.net/policies/code_and_data_policy.html

You have archived some assets used in your manuscript (manual and WRF and PALM codes) on Git repositories. However, these are not suitable repositories for scientific publication. For example, GitHub itself instructs authors to use other alternatives for long-term archival and publishing, such as Zenodo or FigShare. WRF and PALM are archived by third parties in this case; however, their licenses let you do copies and re-store them; the only thing that you need to do is to include in the new repositories their copyright notice (for WRF) and license (GPLv3 for PALM)

Therefore, you must publish them in one of the appropriate repositories, and reply to this comment with the relevant information (link and DOI) as soon as possible, as they should be available for the Discussions stage.  I should note that, actually, your manuscript should not have been accepted in Discussions, given this lack of compliance with our policy. Therefore, the current situation with your manuscript is irregular.

In this way, if you do not fix this problem, we will have to reject your manuscript for publication in our journal.

Juan A. Añel

Geosci. Model Dev. Exec. Editor