The NorESM-LSP includes a Graphical User Interface and an Application Programming Interface, which improve the user experience and lower the technical thresholds for installing these model architectures and setting up model experiments. The software is distributed via version-controlled containers; researchers and students can run simulations directly on their personal computers or servers, with relatively low hardware requirements, and on different operating systems. Version 1.0 of the NorESM-LSP supports site-level simulations. We provide input data for 20 established geo-ecological observation sites in Norway and workflows to add generic sites from public global datasets. The NorESM-LSP makes standard model experiments with default data easily achievable (e.g. for educational or introductory purposes) while retaining flexibility for more advanced scientific uses. We further provide tools to visualise the model input and output, including simple examples to relate predictions to local observations. The NorESM-LSP improves access to land surface and DGVM modelling as a first building block of community cyberinfrastructure that may inspire new avenues for mechanistic ecosystem research across disciplines.
For more information on the platform, please see https://noresmhub.github.io/noresm-land-sites-platform/