BGC-val: a model and grid independent python toolkit to evaluate marine biogeochemical models

The BGC-val model evaluation suite. This is a python toolkit to evaluation marine models from netcdf to html. This release is associated with the paper submitted to Geoscientific Model Development (Discussions): BGC-val: a model and grid independent python toolkit to evaluate marine biogeochemical models, Lee de Mora, Andrew Yool, Julien Palmieri, Alistair Sellar, Till Kuhbrodt, Ekaterina Popova, Colin Jones, and J. Icarus Allen, Submitted to Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, April 2018. gmd-2018-103 This is the beta version of BGC-val which is associated with the Discussions version of the GMD paper. An open access version 1.0 of BGC-val will be made available upon publication of an accepted final version of the GMD paper. A fully functional and documented snapshot of the BGC-val toolkit with an associated DOI address will be permanently available via the Zenodo service, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1215935. An up to date version will be available at via our in-house gitlab server: https://gitlab.ecosystem-modelling.pml.ac.uk/BGC-val-users/bgc-val Registration for the gitlab server is required: http://www.pml.ac.uk/Modelling_at_PML/Access_Cod