Hector manual

Science

• A general summary of the science behind Hector.
• The model’s terrestrial carbon cycle.
• The model’s ocean.

Model philosophy

• Complexity only where warranted.
• Open source: all code freely available.
• Clean, modern, object-oriented code.
• Flexible: model components, outputs, inputs can be changed.
• Fast.

Building and running Hector

• How to build Hector from source.
• What input files the model requires, and what output files it produces.
• About Hector’s version numbering.
• Running Hector subject to constraints.

Programming topics

• Contribution guide
• Learn how to create a new component or variable in Hector.
• Hector internals: unitvals, time series, data passing, the component API .
• The Hector style guide.
• The Hector external API

Other topics

• Units for emissions passed into Hector
• Hector message targets

Publications

• Manuscript describing the initial version of Hector: Hartin et al. (2015).
• Manuscript describing Hector 2.0 (with DOECLIM) and its applications for sea level rise: Vega-Westhoff et al. (2019)