How to cite or where to find the reference papers of NEMO ?

To acknowledge the sustainable development efforts of the NEMO Consortium, please quote these references in your publications and presentations using NEMO.

For the recent releases (4.0 and onwards):

The way to quote NEMO in the list of publications is listed below in this page.

To download the latest version of these reference manuals in pdf format : https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/nemo/wiki/Users (follow thumbnails -> Users -> Reference manuals)

Ocean dynamics
“NEMO ocean engine”,
Gurvan Madec and NEMO System Team,
Scientific Notes of Climate Modelling Center (27) – ISSN 1288-1619,
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL)
document-code BibTeX

Sea Ice

“Sea Ice modelling Integrated Initiative (SI³) — The NEMO sea ice engine”,
NEMO Sea Ice Working Group,
Scientific Notes of Climate Modelling Center (31) – ISSN 1288-1619,
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL)
document-code BibTeX

Biogeochemistry

“Tracer in Ocean Paradigm (TOP) — The NEMO passive tracer engine”,
NEMO TOP Working Group,
Scientific Notes of Climate Modelling Center (28) – ISSN 1288-1619,
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL)
document-code BibTeX

For the previous releases

NEMO-PISCES (release-3.6)	PISCES-v2: an ocean biogeochemical model for carbon and ecosystem studies (O. Aumont, C. Ethé, A. Tagliabue, L. Bopp, M. Gehlen), In Geoscientific Model Development, volume 8, 2015. [bibtex] [doi]
NEMO-LIM (release-3.6)	The Louvain-La-Neuve sea ice model LIM3.6: global and regional capabilities (C. Rousset, M. Vancoppenolle, G. Madec, T. Fichefet, S. Flavoni, A. Barthélemy, R. Benshila, J. Chanut, C. Levy, S. Masson, F. Vivier), In Geoscientific Model Development, volume 8, 2015. [bibtex] [doi] Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation (Martin Vancoppenolle, Thierry Fichefet, Hugues Goosse, Sylvain Bouillon, Gurvan Madec, Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda), In Ocean Modelling, volume 27, 2009. () [bibtex] [doi]
NEMO-TAM (release-3.4)	NEMOTAM: tangent and adjoint models for the ocean modelling platform NEMO (A. Vidard, P.-A. Bouttier, F. Vigilant), In Geoscientific Model Development, volume 8, 2015. [bibtex] [doi]
LIM3	LIM The Louvain-la-Neuve sea Ice Model (M. Vancoppenolle, S. Bouillon, T. Fichefet, H. Goosse, O. Lecomte, M. A. Morales Maqueda, G. Madec), Note du Pôle de Modélisation de l’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace N°31, ISSN No 1288-1619, January 2012. [pdf]
LIM2	Importance of ice-ocean interactions for the global ocean circulation: A model study (H. Goosse, T. Fichefet), In Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, volume 104, 1999. [bibtex] [doi] Sensitivity of a global sea ice model to the treatment of ice thermodynamics and dynamics (T. Fichefet, M. A. Morales Maqueda), In Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, volume 102, 1997. [bibtex] [doi]
Biogeochemistry	Quel Schéma Numérique pour le Transport d’Organismes Biologiques par la Circulation Océanique ? (A. Estublier et M. Lévy), Note du Pôle de Mod́élisation de l’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Septembre 2000. [pdf]
OPA	OPA 8 Ocean General Circulation Model - Reference Manual (G. Madec, P. Delecluse, M. Imbard, C. Levy), Technical report, LODYC/IPSL Note 11, 1998. [bibtex] [pdf]