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Development and technical paper
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29 Apr 2015
Development and technical paper |
| 29 Apr 2015
The software architecture of climate models: a graphical comparison of CMIP5 and EMICAR5 configurations
K. Alexander
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10, King's College Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
now at: Climate Change Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
S. M. Easterbrook
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10, King's College Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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This paper describes an analysis of the software architecture of global climate models. The analysis provides a visualization of the structure of these models, and reveals interesting differences between the models developed at different research labs.
This paper describes an analysis of the software architecture of global climate models. The...
