Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for
earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science.
The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the process of configuring building and
running earth system models. Earth system models are typically a collection of interacting
computer codes (often called components) which together simulate the earth system. Each code
component is written to model some physical process which forms part of the earth system (such
as the Ocean). This book is concerned with the source code version control of these code
components the configuration of these components into earth system models the creation of
executable(s) from the component source code and related libraries and the running and
monitoring of the resultant executables on the available hardware.
