CESM2 Copyright & Terms of Use

Copyright (c) 2018, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) All rights reserved.

The Community Earth System Model (CESM) was developed with support primarily from the National Science Foundation.

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Components copyright & terms of use

The following components are copyrighted and may only be used, modified, or redistributed under the terms indicated below.

AER RRTMG
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
Copyright 2002-2010, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
AER RRTMG Copyright

Earth System Model Computational Infrastructure / Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth (CIME)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and DOE BER E3SM project team members, including those at SNL and ANL
Copyright and License

Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)
University of Illinois/NCSA
Copyright 2002-2009, University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES)
UCAR/NCAR, UC Berkeley and DOE
Copyright 2017 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the University of California
Copyright and License

CISM Community Ice Sheet Model
NCAR/ LANL/ ORNL/ SNL/ LBNL/ NYU/U. Bristol/U. Edinburgh/U. Montana/U. Swansea
Copyright 2004-2018, GNU Lesser General Public License
GNU Lesser General Public License

Inf_NaN_Detection module
Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.
Copyright(c) 2003, Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.
Copies of this source code, or standalone compiled files derived from this source may not be sold without permission from Lahey Computers Systems. All or part of this module may be freely incorporated into executable programs which are offered for sale. Otherwise, distribution of all or part of this file is permitted, provided this copyright notice and header are included.

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP)
Copyright 2003, 2010, Steve Klein and Mark Webb
ISCCP Simulator Software

Model Coupling Toolkit (MCT)
Argonne National Laboratory
Copyright 2011, University of Chicago.
MCT Copyright

Parallel Ocean Program (POP2)
Parallel Ocean Program (POP2)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Copyright 2015 Los Alamos National Security, LLC
Copyright 2015, LANSLLC. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.

The Los Alamos Sea Ice Model (CICE)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Copyright 2017 Los Alamos National Security, LLC
Los Alamos National Security, LLC

Spherical Coordinate Remapping and Interpolation Package (SCRIP)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Copyright 2015 Los Alamos National Security, LLC
Los Alamos National Security, LLC

XML/Lite
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
Copyright 2001,2010 Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
The documentation for the Perl XML-Lite module is no longer available on-line.

Third party copyright & terms of use

There may be other third party tools and libraries that are integrated into CESM, and they may have their own copyright notices and terms.

NCAR and collaborators have developed additional packages to support CESM input data pre-processing, output data post-processing, and diagnostic analysis packages that are also included under this copyright notice and disclaimer. Package developers should include the following license agreement at the root of their code distribution package:
CESM2 Related Software Package Copyright Notice and Disclaimer