Today the openEarthModelling website goes live. This is a short introduction to the group behind it, and to what this site will become.
The homepage: one planet, several coupled systems, open to explore.
Who we are
openEarthModelling is an open research group building computational software for the Earth system. The questions we work on span the whole planet: how aerosols scatter sunlight, how the ocean moves heat, how to turn physical processes into code that others can run, check, and extend.
What we believe
The name is the mission: open Earth modelling, for everyone. The Earth has no proprietary owner, and we think the tools for understanding it should not either. Code, methods, and results belong in the open, where students, researchers, and practitioners can read them, reuse them, and make them better. Openness is not a licensing detail. It is how good scientific software gets built.
What you will find here
- Research Projects: the software we build, what each tool does, and where the code lives
- Publications: papers and preprints from the group
- People: who we are, and how to join
- Blogs: notes, tutorials, and development logs, starting with this one
The site itself is open source. If anything looks broken, from a typo to a globe that renders oddly on your machine, open an issue or send a pull request. That is very much in the spirit of the place.
One last thing. The globe on the front page is the idea in miniature: a realistic Earth, overlaid with the grids of a model, layered like the systems it simulates. Drag it.