This is an open source project under GPL licence.
Contibuters have the freedom to share and change all versions of this programs, but new versions shouldremain free software for all its users. You can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs.
If publishing or making businnes using GEOtop, please cite the following papers:
Endrizzi, S., Gruber, S., Dall’Amico, M., Rigon, R., 2014. GEOtop 2.0: simulating the combined energy and water balance at and below the land surface accounting for soil freezing, snow cover and terrain effects. Geosci. Model Dev. 7, 2831–2857. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2831-2014
Rigon, R., Bertoldi, G., Over, T.M., 2006. GEOtop: A Distributed Hydrological Model with Coupled Water and Energy Budgets. J. Hydrometeorol. 7, 371–388. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM497.1
If you want to use the model, please present yourself at the GEOtopUsers mailing list. We will be happy to support you.
If you want to contribute to the model developmeent, please present yourself at the GEOtopDev mailing list. You can build your own branch. Please consider that any new code version should pass a series of tests.