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10.1.6 Ability to upgrade.

It is vitaly important for researchers to be able to incorporate code changes (which may be of interest personally but not appropriate for general dissemination) into newer versions of a model. It is in this way that researchers are able to take advantage of new parameterizations while retaining local personal changes. Also of importance is the ability to incorporate ``bug'' fixes. In the past, both of these operations have presented significant difficulties. These difficulties have been largely eliminated by the tools and method described in Section 3.12.



RC Pacanowski and SM Griffies, GFDL, Jan 2000