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 #### Overview on placeholders of the output directory tree
 | Arguments	| Value	|
 |---	|---	|
-| [<YYYY>]	| four-digit years, e.g. 2007, 2008 etc.|
-| [<MM>]	| two-digit month, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 12|
-| [< DD>]	| two-digit day, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 31|    
-| [<HH>]	| two-digit day, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 24|     
-|[directory_name_convention]| name indicating the data period, the target domain and the selected variables|
-[model_name] | convLSTM, savp or weatherBench|
+| [<`YYYY`>]	| four-digit years, e.g. 2007, 2008 etc.|
+| [<`MM`>]	| two-digit month, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 12|
+| [< `DD`>]	| two-digit day, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 31|    
+| [<`HH`>]	| two-digit day, e.g. 01, 02, ..., 24|     
+|[`directory_name_convention`]| name indicating the data period, the target domain and the selected variables|
+[`model_name`] | convLSTM, savp or weatherBench|
 
 
 #### Directory name convention