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CSDMS-related. - Why Open-Source? Science is advanced through
mutual cooperation. Community modeling involves the collective
efforts of individuals that code, debug, test, document, run,
and apply models and modeling frameworks. Community modeling
relies on open-source code to address the practical need of
contributing developers to examine and modify the code. Open-
source code provides complete information transfer. This
transparency is important because code is the ultimate statement
of the scientific hypotheses embodied in a numerical model, and
their implementation. In the world of software, details are
important. A scientific article describing code may provide the
theoretical equations, but the solution to these equations can
take numerous forms, and each solution has