| 30-31.03.2010 | introductory workshop at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen with 11 participants from 6 institutions |
| 02.02.2010 | release of MESSy 1.9 |
| 29-30.10.2009 | introductory workshop at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen with 20 participants from 7 institutions |
| 27.05.2009 | release of MESSy 1.8 |
| 01.12.2008 | release of MESSy 1.7 |
| 26.05.2008 | release of MESSy 1.6 |
| 18.12.2007 | release of MESSy 1.5 |
| 15.05.2007 | release of MESSy 1.4 |
| 01.02.2007 | The members of the Scientific Steering Board of the M&D group and the DKRZ (http://www.mad.zmaw.de) discussed on their 14. meeting, following Prof. Schumann's (DLR) suggestion, to support MESSy as 'community model' by M&D. |
| 01.12.2006 | release of MESSy 1.3 |
| 07.11.2006 | 1st ECHAM5/MESSy1 evaluation published in
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: P. Jöckel, H. Tost, A. Pozzer, C. Brühl, J. Buchholz, L. Ganzeveld, P. Hoor, A. Kerkweg, M. G. Lawrence, R. Sander, B. Steil, G. Stiller, M. Tanarhte, D. Taraborrelli, J. van Aardenne, J. Lelieveld, The atmospheric chemistry general circulation model ECHAM5/MESSy1: consistent simulation of ozone from the surface to the mesosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 5067-5104, 2006. (-abstract-) (-full text online (pdf)-) (-supplement-) |
| 12.06.2006 | release of MESSy 1.2 |
| 18.01.2006 | release of MESSy 1.1 |
| 17.11.2005 | Patrick Jöckel & Rolf Sander receive the Heinz Billing Award for the Advancement of Scientific Computation for the invention and design of MESSy |
| 03/2005 - 12/2005 | intensive debugging and evaluation simulations |
| 11.03.2005 | feature freeze and internal version MESSy 1.0 |
| 10.02.2005 | MESSy Technical Note published in
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: Patrick Jöckel, Rolf Sander, Astrid Kerkweg, Holger Tost, and Jos Lelieveld, Technical Note: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) - a new approach towards Earth System Modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 433-444, 2005. (-abstract-) (-full text online (pdf)-) (-supplement-) |
| 06-08.10.2004, 12-14.10.2004 | 1stMESSy Workshop with 26 participants from 11 institutions; release of the preliminary test version MESSy 0.9 |
| 04-09.09.2004 | presentation of MESSy on the 8th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand (1 oral presentation and 11 posters) |
| 06/2004 | interface design definition finished |
| 2001-2004 | main development phase; design of basic interface structure with several revisions; programming of several MESSy submodels |
| 06/2001 | start of the project; formulation of the overall aims:
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