Contributions to the PALM code since 1997

Year	Feature	Author(s)
March 1997	Start with code layout development	Siegfried Raasch
May 1997	Start programming	Siegfried Raasch
July 1997	Dynamic core and FFT-solver	Siegfried Raasch
August 1997	Dry version finalized	Siegfried Raasch
1999	Passive Lagrangian particles	Siegfried Raasch
2000	Simple cloud physics (Kessler)	Michael Schröter
2001	Multigrid-solver	Jörg Uhlenbrock, Siegfried Raasch
2002	Cache optimization, 1D-decomposition optimized FFT-solver	Klaus Ketelsen
2004	Non-cyclic boundary conditions	Micha Gryschka, Siegfried Raasch
2005	NetCDF support	Marc Rautenhaus, Siegfried Raasch
2005	First version of Lagrangian cloud droplets	Yign Noh (concept), Siegfried Raasch
2007	Ocean option with salinity equation	Siegfried Raasch
2007,2008	Topography	Marcus Letzel, Siegfried Raasch, Matthias Sühring
2007,2008	Atmosphere-ocean coupling	Marcus Letzel, Björn Maronga
2009	Wicker-Skamarock advection scheme	Matthias Sühring
2012	Two-moment cloud micropyhsics scheme (Seifert & Beheng)	Fabian Hoffmann
2012	Start with GPU-porting	Siegfried Raasch
2013	Overlapping calculation/communication in FFT-solver	Klaus Ketelsen
2014	Large-scale forcing and nudging	Rieke Heinze, Lennart Böske
2014	Multigrid optimization	Klaus Ketelsen
2014	Completely revised and optimised Lagrangian particle model with new data structure	Klaus Ketelsen, Fabian Hoffmann
2015	Radiation and land surface model	Björn Maronga
2016	Revised surface flux model	Björn Maronga
2016	3d-nesting	Antti Hellsten, Klaus Ketelsen, Siegfried Raasch
2016 (?)	Anelastic approximation	Helge Knoop
2017	Spin-up mechanism for land and urban surfaces	Björn Maronga
2017	Revised topography representation and surface treatment	Matthias Sühring
2018	Nesting in larger-scale models	Matthias Sühring
2018	Enhanced two-moment cloud microphysics scheme	Johannes Schwenkel