Open ModelE (OpenME)

The OpenME project goal is to release an open source version of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) ModelE global climate model (GCM).  The ModelE GCM is used to research past, present, and future climate including human-induced climate change and results from this model lineage have been used in presentations before the U.S. Congress and in IPCC reports. Releasing the code will support more transparent, accessible, inclusive, and reproducible research.

The work will involve replacing proprietary licensed sections of code with open source implementations of the same algorithm, testing and validating the code changes and any downstream effects, following the NASA Software Release Process to release the code, and building supporting documentation and infrastructure (e.g., Docker containers) so that anyone can run ModelE. Once the code has been approved for release, it will be hosted on GitHub to support community engagement.