Tutorial materials for running the Community Land Model

Is NCAR/CLM-Tutorial beginner-friendly?

The maintainers of NCAR/CLM-Tutorial usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Indexed issues
37
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8h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
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Dominant language
Jupyter Notebook
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Nov 3, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 1, 2026
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How to contribute to NCAR/CLM-Tutorial

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Explicitly use the npl-2025b conda environment
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 75/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#113 · 1 comment ·

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  • Where should resources tab be in the table of contents?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#63 · 1 comment ·

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  • Update the runtime failure example in troubleshooting
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 65/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#52 ·

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  • link validity checker
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#50 · 1 comment ·

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  • Update introduction
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#47 ·

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  • Hillslope examples
    May be free again @minallah claimed this 41 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#29 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Estimate planned simulations, duration, & computational needs
    May be free again @slevis-lmwg claimed this 42 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#22 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • create tutorial reservation / queue
    May be free again @slevis-lmwg claimed this 44 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#4 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Some links are hard-coded to CESM-Tutorial webpages -- convert to a relative path so that they are all contained within CLM-Tutorial
    Possibly taken @ekluzek claimed this today. Open
    enhancement

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#112 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Open up "hillslope" and "basic_plotting" directories to world read-execute
    Possibly taken @wwieder claimed this today. Open
    bug enhancement

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#111 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Make a shared file location for any files to share between the tutorial leads and students
    Possibly taken @ekluzek claimed this today. Open
    enhancement

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#109 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • [day 1] Python environment problem
    Possibly taken @slevis-lmwg claimed this 2 days ago. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#89 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [day 1] Tutorial one time setup?
    Possibly taken @slevis-lmwg claimed this 2 days ago. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#88 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Update troubleshooting debug section to include CLM specific things
    Possibly taken @ekluzek claimed this 27 days ago. Open
    documentation enhancement

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#53 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Complete longer runs to pre-stage results for diagnostics
    Possibly taken @slevis-lmwg claimed this 27 days ago. Open

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#44 · 3 comments · 2 assignees ·

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  • Revise Day 4: Diagnostics practical
    Possibly taken @slevis-lmwg claimed this 41 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#20 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • update information in `basics/cesm_workflow/case_*`
    Possibly taken @ekluzek claimed this 41 days ago. Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    NCAR/CLM-Tutorial#12 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·

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