How to cite

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 (4.2 and onwards):

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

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)
BibTeX​

Sea Ice  (the new version will be available in Mar 2022)

“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)
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)
BibTeX​

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For the previous releases

NEMO (release 4.0)

Reference Manuals for NEMO v4.0, SI3 and TOP are available by clicking here at [doi]

NEMO-PISCES (release-3.6)	PISCES-v2: an ocean biogeochemical model for carbon and ecosystem studies (Aumont, O., Ethé, C., Tagliabue, A., Bopp, L. and Gehlen, M.), 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 (Rousset, C., Vancoppenolle, M., Madec, G., Fichefet, T., Flavoni, S., Barthélemy, A., Benshila, R., Chanut, J., Levy, C., Masson, S. and Vivier, F.), 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 and 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 (Vidard, A., Bouttier, P.-A. and Vigilant, F.), 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 (Goosse, H. and Fichefet, T.), 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 (Fichefet, T. and Maqueda, M. A. Morales), 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 and C. Levy), Technical report, LODYC/IPSL Note 11, 1998. [bibtex] [pdf]