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

The problem is that you have not published the code and data necessary to replicate your manuscript. Our policy clearly states that all the code and data used in a manuscript must be published at the submission time in one of the acceptable repositories listed in our policy, and that the Code and Data Availability section must contain the details (links and DOIs) for such repositories. Instead this section in your manuscript reads "The executable code, data and other relevant files will be publicly shared."

You have provided internally a Google Drive address containing part of these assets (not all of them, according to my understanding). This is not enough. First, Google Drive is not a repository valid for scientific publication; second, all the information must be available to every potential reader in Discussions to facilitate the peer-review and comments by the community, and sharing it privately with the editors fails to comply with the Discussions peer-review process.

Therefore, please, publish your code in one of the appropriate repositories, and reply to this comment with the relevant information (link and DOI) as soon as possible, as we can not accept manuscripts in Discussions that do not comply 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.

Also, you must include in a potentially reviewed version of your manuscript the modified 'Code and Data Availability' section, containing the links and DOI of the repository containing code and data.

Juan A. Añel

Geosci. Model Dev. Executive Editor