This book of collected articles is dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The usefulness of coupling infrastructures and data management will be discussed, along with strategies and tools for pre- and post-processing and coupling software and strategies in regional and global models.

1. Introduction.- 2. Recent Developments and Projects.- 3. Coupling Software.- 4. Workflow.- 5. Postprocessing.- 6. Metadata.- 7. Accessing and Manipulating ESM data.- 8. Algorithms and Code Optimisation.- 9. Future Perspectives.-