How To CEM Refactor

Sharing Numerical Models: Case Study

One of the goals of CSDMS is to increasing model sharing within Earth-surface modeling community. Unfortunately, many existing models are not in a state that allows them to be easily shared with others. Often models are written as standalone units by someone and maybe never used by more than a handful of users. As an example of what can be done to make a model more "sharable", I have taken an existing that was written by someone else and is outside of my area of expertise. In this case the model is a coastal evolution model written by Andrew Ashton (I'm not sure of the model's real name so I've code named it deltas).