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Welcome! This manual describes how to use the Laboratoire de M\'et\'eorologie Dynamique (LMD) Martian Mesoscale Model. Many thanks for looking forward to using this model. Developping the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model required countless hours of hard work! A significant part of the model development and validation have been funded by ESA and CNES which are acknowledged here.

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The main contact to reach at LMD to become an user of the model is Aymeric SPIGA (main developper, \href{mailto:aymeric.spiga@upmc.fr}{\nolinkurl{aymeric.spiga@upmc.fr}}). Alternative contacts at LMD for mesoscale modeling inquiries are Ehouarn MILLOUR~\url{ehouarn.millour@lmd.jussieu.fr} or Fran\c cois FORGET~\url{francois.forget@lmd.jussieu.fr}. The model is distributed freely to academic partners in the frame of scientific collaborations, but not to industrial and commercial partners. At any event, we are open both to new scientific collaboration projects and contractual proposals.

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[To our academic partners] Please cite the reference paper \textit{Spiga and Forget} [2009]\nocite{Spig:09} if you'd like to refer to the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model in one of your publication. If your paper makes use of specific simulations carried out with the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model, please consider including A. Spiga as a co-author of your work and asking for help with writing the part related to mesoscale modeling. If you have any idea of specific simulations and wonder if it is ever possible to perform those with the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model, please do not hesitate to ask! If your study requires a significant work on a peculiar Martian physical parameterization, please do not hesitate to tell us about it and we would determine additional participants in the LMD team.

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Part of the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model is based on the terrestrial model WRF which is in the public domain. If you are an user of the LMD Martian Mesoscale Model, you are therefore an user of the WRF model. Please take a minute to fill in the WRF registration form so that the WRF development team knows about the people using their model: \url{http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/wrf-regist.php}. \noindent \scriptsize \emph{WRF was developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) which is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). NCAR and UCAR make no proprietary claims, either statutory or otherwise, to this version and release of WRF and consider WRF to be in the public domain for use by any person or entity for any purpose without any fee or charge. UCAR requests that any WRF user include this notice on any partial or full copies of WRF. WRF is provided on an "AS IS" basis and any warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of non-infringement, originality, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. In no event shall UCAR be liable for any damages, whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, consequential or special, that arise out of or in connection with the access, use or performance of WRF, including infringement actions. WRF is a registered trademark of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).} \normalsize

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