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ICON - is a modeling framework for weather, climate, and environmental prediction. It solves the full three-dimensional non-hydrostatic and compressible Navier-Stokes equations on an icosahedral grid and allows seamless predictions from local to global scales.
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The ICON partnership coordinates research activities developing, maintaining, and supporting the ICON modeling framework.
ICON partner institutions are:
More information about ICON is available in the project's public web page.
ICON is available under a BSD 3-clause license. See LICENSES/ for license information and AUTHORS.TXT for a list of authors.
The name of the release version is documented in the VERSION file in the root folder.
ICON versions are named using the scheme icon-yyyy.mm where yyyy is the year and mm is the month of the release. The very first open source release of ICON is version icon-2024.01, release date January 2024. If patches are needed for a particular release, they will be icon-yyyy.mm-n with n starting at 1. Note: The patch-level 0 is the basic release. The 0 is not explicitly written to the version string.
The Quick Start provides technical details on how to build the model, as well as the description of basic steps required to run it.