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 Numerical models are widely used, but gaining expertise in how they work has often been unnecessarily challenging. This cookbook hopes to address that! This is intended for a somewhat broad audience: those with at least some atmospheric dynamics knowledge, but nearly any level of programming experience (assuming a baseline level as covered in the [Pythia Foundations](https://foundations.projectpythia.org/landing-page.html)).
 
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 ## Authors
 
 [JT Thielen](@jthielen), [Second Author](@second-author), etc. _Acknowledge primary content authors here_