Introduction¶
LIVVkit, the land ice verification & validation toolkit, is a Python based V&V toolkit for computational ice sheet models, in both a stand-alone or coupled (to an Earth system model) configuration. It is intended to be a comprehensive testing suite that covers:
Model V&V
Numerical verification – “Are we solving the equations correctly?”
Physical validation – “Are we using the right physics?”
Software V&V
Code verification – “did we build what we wanted?”
Performance validation – “did we build what the users wanted?”
By integrating LIVVkit into a model’s development workflow, LIVVkit will help users and developers build confidence in their model results, and easily transmit testing data to the wider scientific community, reviews, and decision/policy makers.
Currently, LIVVkit is being used and developed in conjunction with E3SM (Energy Exascale Earth System Model) and CISM (Community Ice Sheet Model), but is designed to be extensible to other models.
Users and contributors are welcome! We’ll help you out – open an issue on github to contact us for any reason.
License and Attribution¶
LIVVkit 3.0 is an open source project licensed under a BSD 3-clause License. We ask that you please acknowledge LIVVkit in any work it is used or supports. In any corresponding published work, please cite [Kennedy2017] and [Evans2019]:
Evans, K. J., et al. (2019), LIVVkit 2.1: Automated and extensible ice sheet model validation, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1067–1086, DOI:10.5194/gmd-12-1067-2019.
Kennedy, J.H., et al. (2017), LIVVkit: An extensible, Python-based, land ice verification and validation toolkit for ice sheet models, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9, DOI:10.1002/2017MS000916.