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LICENSE.txt

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USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
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1. License. Subject to these terms and conditions, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
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grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, create derivative works, publish, distribute,
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disseminate, transfer, modify, revise and copy the Noah-MP software, in both object and source code
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(the "Software"). You shall not sell, license or transfer for a fee the Software, or any work that in any
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2. Disclaimer of Warranty on Software. Use of the Software is at your sole risk. The Software is provided
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"The Noah-MP modeling system was developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with collaborations
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BY USING OR DOWNLOADING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

README.md

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# Noah-MP Community Model Repository
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**Original Noah-MP model description paper**: Niu, G. Y., Yang, Z. L., Mitchell, K. E., Chen, F., Ek, M. B., Barlage, M., ... & Xia, Y. (2011). The community Noah land surface model with multiparameterization options (Noah‐MP): 1. Model description and evaluation with local‐scale measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 116(D12).
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**Noah-MP version 5.0 model description paper**: He, C., P. Valayamkunnath, M. Barlage, F. Chen, D. Gochis, R. Cabell, T. Schneider, R. Rasmussen, G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, D. Niyogi, and M. Ek (2023): Modernizing the open-source community Noah-MP land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability, GMD, to be submitted.
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**Noah-MP version 5.0 model description paper**: He, C., Valayamkunnath, P., Barlage, M., Chen, F., Gochis, D., Cabell, R., Schneider, T., Rasmussen, R., Niu, G.-Y., Yang, Z.-L., Niyogi, D., and Ek, M.: Modernizing the open-source community Noah-MP land surface model (version 5.0) with enhanced modularity, interoperability, and applicability, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-675, 2023.
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## Noah-MP GitHub structure
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7. Step (7) The Noah-MP physics and code review committee merges the updated "develop" branch to the master branch during the annual release of new model versions.
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## License
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The license and terms of use for this software can be found [here](https://github.com/NCAR/noahmp/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt)
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Updated on March 9, 2023

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