How to cite this software

If you use RegionMatch in your work β€” whether for scientific publications, reports, presentations, or teaching β€” we would really appreciate a proper citation. Citing the software helps us demonstrate its impact, improve it further, and justify continued development and maintenance.

To make this as easy as possible, we provide ready-to-use citation formats below. Simply choose the format that best fits your workflow.

Thank you for citing RegionMatch!

Bell L., Tiedje B. RegionMatch URL: https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch


@misc{YourReferenceHere,
author = {Bell, Louisa and Tiedje, Bente},
title = {RegionMatch},
url = {https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch}
}


TY  - GEN
AB  - RegionMatch is intended to help find regions similar to the one selected by the user in order to facilitate knowledge transfer (climate services, recommended actions, appropriate measures) and networking (pointing to further information and sources).

AU  - Bell, Louisa
AU  - Tiedje, Bente
KW  - knowledge transfer
KW  - networking
KW  - similar regions
TI  - RegionMatch
UR  - https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch
ER


%0 Generic
%A Bell, Louisa
%A Tiedje, Bente
%K knowledge transfer
%K networking
%K similar regions
%T RegionMatch
%U https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch


# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0

authors:
  # list author information. see
  # https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/schema-guide.md#definitionsperson
  # for metadata
  - family-names: "Bell"
    given-names: "Louisa"
    affiliation: "Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon"
    # orcid: null
    email: "louisa.bell@hereon.de"
  - family-names: "Tiedje"
    given-names: "Bente"
    affiliation: "Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon"
    # orcid: null
    email: "bente.tiedje@hereon.de"
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it using these metadata."
title: "RegionMatch"
keywords:
  - "knowledge transfer"
  - "networking"
  - "similar regions"

license: 'BSD-3-Clause'
repository-code: "https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch"
url: "https://gitlab.dkrz.de/ch1187/plugins4freva/regionmatch"
contact:
  # list maintainer information. see
  # https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format/blob/main/schema-guide.md#definitionsperson
  # for metadata
  - family-names: "Bell"
    given-names: "Louisa"
    affiliation: "Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon"
    # orcid: null
    email: "louisa.bell@hereon.de"
  - family-names: "Tiedje"
    given-names: "Bente"
    affiliation: "Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon"
    # orcid: null
    email: "bente.tiedje@hereon.de"
  - family-names: "Wentzel"
    given-names: "Bianca"
    affiliation: "German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)"
  - family-names: "Hadizadeh"
    given-names: "Mostafa"
    affiliation: "German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)"
abstract: |
  RegionMatch is intended to help find regions similar to the one selected by the user in order to facilitate knowledge transfer (climate services, recommended actions, appropriate measures) and networking (pointing to further information and sources).

If you have any questions about how to cite RegionMatch or would like to reference a specific version or dataset, feel free to get in touch.