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Open source works by the U.S. Government that is in the public domain
This project utilizes the following unmodified works under various licenses, as shown below.
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Atmos cube sphere dycore: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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FV3 Atm: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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NEMS: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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FMS: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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Stochastic Physics: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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CCPP Physics: Apache 2.0
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CCPP Framework: Apache 2.0
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UPP: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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UFS Utils: GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 (LGPL)
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The regional_workflow code incorporated in the Unified Forecast System (UFS) (previously located in a separate repository: https://github.com/ufs-community/regional_workflow) was jointly developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and I. M. Systems Group (IMSG).
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