Testing Climate Model Software
Table of Contents
1. Overview
A climate model is a straightforward mathematical model, but its software is heavy on the numerical analysis. How can we test the code to make sure it's working as expected?
This is a hard question that draws upon many fields.
Unit testing is inadequate, we would need integrated testing.
2. References
- Vicky Pope and Terry Davies,
"Testing and evaluating atmospheric climate models."
Computing in Science & Engineering 4, no.5 (2002) 64-69. - Steve Easterbrook has a few blog posts on the subject