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.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY UCAR AND ANY CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL UCAR OR ANY CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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

Related Software Package Copyright Notice & Disclaimer

NCAR and collaborators have developed additional packages to support CESM input data pre-processing, output data post-processing, and diagnostic analysis packages that are included under the general CESM copyright notice and disclaimer.

CESM developers who are maintaining and distributing these packages to the community should include the following text in a LICENSE.txt file as part of the package distribution bundle.

LICENSE.txt

Copyright (c) 2018, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) All rights reserved. Developed by: [Name of Development Group including any outside collaborators] University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - National Center for Atmospheric Research [URL for Development Group/Institution] Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers. - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. - Neither the names of [Name of Development Group, UCAR], nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.