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-# Noah-MP Community Model Repository
+# Noah-MP® Community Model Repository
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-Noah-MP is a widely-used state-of-the-art land surface model used in many research and operational weather/climate models (e.g., HRLDAS, WRF, MPAS, WRF-Hydro/NWM, NOAA/UFS, NASA/LIS, etc.).
+Noah-MP® is a widely-used state-of-the-art land surface model used in many research and operational weather/climate models (e.g., HRLDAS, WRF, MPAS, WRF-Hydro/NWM, NOAA/UFS, NASA/LIS, etc.).
This is the official Noah-MP land surface model unified repository for code downloading and contribution. Noah-MP is a community open-source model developed with the contributions from the entire scientific community. For development, maintenance, and release of the community Noah-MP GitHub code, please contact: Cenlin He (cenlinhe@ucar.edu) and Fei Chen (feichen@ucar.edu).