Earth System Model Evaluation Tool VERSION 2.0 (the Software) License

PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE ("LICENSE") CAREFULLY. USE OF THE SOFTWARE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THIS LICENSE AND TERMS

DATE: 6 February 2019
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THIS LICENSE APPLIES TO THE ESMValTool VERSION 1.0 AND VERSION 2.0 THAT IS RELEASED AS OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE UNDER THE APACHE LICENSE

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Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) and partners (see below). All rights reserved.

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(1) ESMValTool VERSION 2.0 CORE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
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Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany - ESMValTool Co-PI
Copyright 2020- Met Office, UK - ESMValTool Co-PI
Copyright 2017- Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), Germany
Copyright 2017- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
Copyright 2016- Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
Copyright 2017- Netherlands e-Science Center (NLeSC), The Netherlands
Copyright 2019- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
Copyright 2011- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
Copyright 2017- University of Reading, UK

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(2) ESMValTool VERSION 2.0 PREPROCESSOR
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COPYRIGHT 2008- ALL CORE DEVELOPERS (see under (1))

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(3) ESMValTool VERSION 2.0 RECIPES AND DIAGNOSTICS
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COPYRIGHT 2008- ALL CORE DEVELOPERS (see under (1))

recipe_autoassess_landsurface_permafrost.yml
recipe_autoassess_landsurface_snow.yml
recipe_autoassess_landsurface_soilmoisture.yml
recipe_autoassess_landsurface_surfrad.yml
recipe_autoassess_radiation_rms_Amon_all.yml
recipe_autoassess_radiation_rms_Amon_obs.yml
recipe_autoassess_radiation_rms_cfMon_all.yml
recipe_autoassess_stratosphere.yml
Copyright 2017- University of Reading, UK
Copyright 2017- Met Office, UK

recipe_my_personal_diagnostic.yml
recipe_validation.yml
Copyright 2017- University of Reading, UK

recipe_clouds_bias.yml
recipe_clouds_ipcc.yml
recipe_flato13ipcc.yml
recipe_lauer13jclim.yml
recipe_perfmetrics_CMIP5.yml
recipe_williams09climdyn_CREM.yml
Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany

recipe_cvdp.yml
Copyright 2010- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), USA

recipe_ocean_amoc.yml
recipe_ocean_bgc.yml
recipe_ocean_example.yml
recipe_ocean_ice_extent.yml
recipe_ocean_quadmap.yml
recipe_ocean_scalar_fields.yml
Copyright 2019- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
Copyright 2018- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden

recipe_runoff_et.yml
Copyright 2015 Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI), Germany
Copyright 2016- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

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ESMValTool VERSION 1.0 COPYRIGHTS
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Copyright 2008- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), ESMValTool Project PI “Entire ESMValTool”
Copyright 2011- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) “Technical ESMValTool development”
British Crown Copyright 2015 “namelist_SAMonsoon.xml, namelist_SAMonsoon_AMIP.xml, namelist_SAMonsoon_daily.xml, SPHINX”
Copyright 2014-2015 University of Exeter “Carbon Cycle “namelist_anav13jclim.xml”
Copyright 2014-2015 Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich “namelist_GlobalOcean.xml”
Copyright 2015 Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) “Ozone (namelist_eyring13jgr.xml; namelist_eyring06jgr.xml)
Copyright 2014-2015 ETH Zurich, Switzerland “namelist_Evapotransport.xml, namelist_SPI.xml”
Copyright 2015 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) “Climate Variability Diagnostic Package (namelist_CVDP.xml)”
Copyright 2015 Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) “ESGF coupling“
Copyright 2015 Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI) “namelist_runoff_et.xml”
Copyright 2015 National Centre for Atmospheric Science, British Atmospheric Data Centre, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory “ESGF coupling”
Copyright 2015 Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) “Automated Testing”
Copyright 2015 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) “namelist_TropicalVariability.xml, namelist_SouthernHemisphere.xml”
Copyright 2015 Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, “namelist_diurnalcycle.xml”
Copyright 2015 University of Reading “ESGF coupling”
Copyright 2015 CNRM-GAME, Météo France and CNRS, “namelist_WAMonsoon.xml”
Copyright 2014-2015 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) “namelist_SouthernOcean.xml”

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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Users who apply the Software resulting in presentations or papers are kindly asked to cite the following “Software Documentation Papers” alongside with the Software doi (ESMValCore doi:10.5281/zenodo.3952695,
ESMValTool doi:10.5281/zenodo.3970975) and version number:

- Righi et al., Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - technical overview, Geosci. Model Dev., 2020.
- Eyring et al., Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 2020.
- Lauer et al., Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - diagnostics for emergent constraints and future projections from Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 2020.
- Weigel et al., Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - diagnostics for extreme events, regional and impact evaluation and analysis of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., in review, 2020.

Besides the above citation, users are kindly asked to register any journal articles (or other scientific documents) that use the Software at ESMValTool webpage (see https://www.esmvaltool.org/).
Citing the Software Documentation Paper and registering your paper(s) will serve to document the scientific impact of the Software, which is of vital importance for securing future funding. You should consider this an obligation if you have taken advantage of the Software, which represents the end product of considerable effort by the development team.

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In addition to using the Software, we encourage the community to join the Software Development Team and to contribute additional diagnostics and performance metrics or other software improvements. Contributing back the new diagnostics and performance metrics or other software improvements will help to enhance the capability of the Software, which is of vital importance for securing future funding. You should consider this an obligation if you have taken advantage of the Software, which represents a product of considerable effort by the development team.

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To join the ESMValTool Development Team, please contact Dr. Birgit Hassler (birgit.hassler@dlr.de) and Dr. Axel Lauer (axel.lauer@dlr.de).

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