Development utilities

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+# Developer Zone
+
+**NOTE: CODE IN THIS SUBDIRECTORY IS NOT INTENDED FOR GENERAL USERS**
+
+## Developer utilities
+
+The `.dev/utils` subdirectory contains three shell scripts that streamline the
+development process, as described in the following.
+
+The first one is the `setup.sh` script, which sets up your environment for
+building and running GISS-GC. This includes setting environment variables
+and activating a Spack environment. It's likely that this script will need
+some modification to be usable on your system. (Open the script and check the
+parts marked by `NOTE`.) To use the `setup.sh` script, navigate to the directory
+where you cloned GISS-GC (which is set as `${GISS_HOME}` in the script) and run
+```
+cp .dev/utils/setup.sh .
+source setup.sh
+```
+
+The second utility is the `build.sh` script, which builds the model with given
+configuration options. From the same location, run
+```
+cp .dev/utils/build.sh .
+./build.sh --help
+```
+This should print some help text to the screen that describes what options may
+be passed to the script and what they mean. The options can be combined. For
+example, running
+```
+./build.sh --giss-only -f
+```
+will build GISS Model E *without* GEOS-Chem support and it will remove any
+existing builds before doing so. Note that if you run the build script once with
+the `--giss-only` option and once without then it will create two separate
+builds.
+
+The third utility is the `run.sh` script, which runs a model configuration that
+has been built.
+
+Again, you may run the following to get help text on how to use this script:
+```
+cp .dev/utils/run.sh .
+./run.sh --help
+```
+Note that in order to run the model with `--giss-only` or not, you will need to
+have built the model in the same way.
+
+## Configuration scripts
+
+The `.dev/config` subdirectory contains five configuration files for GEOS-Chem
+and the HEMCO emissions module that provide good starting points for GISS-GC
+development. (Again, these are not intended for general users as they may not
+produce scientifically interesting output.) The configuration scripts are
+automatically picked up by the developer utility scripts mentioned in the
+previous section.
+
+The configuration scripts are:
+* `geoschem_config.yml` - top level configuration file for GEOS-Chem.
+* `HEMCO_Config.rc` - top level configuration file for HEMCO.
+* `HISTORY.rc` - output configuration for GEOS-Chem.
+* `HEMCO_Diagn.rc` - output configuration for HEMCO.
+* `species_database.yml` - configuration file for species used by GEOS-Chem.