In the "lu", "anthro" and "spAer-anthro" experiments, an abrupt change of vegetation map is required (from preindustrial to 2014). 

In order to force the ORCHIDEE model to properly read the new vegetation map, specified in orchidee.card, 
the variable veget_max was removed in the SRF restarts (all restarts being taken from CM616-LR-piClim-control-SU* runs), using :

ncks -x -v veget_max CM616-LR-piClim-control-SU5_20151231_sechiba_rest.nc  -o CM616-LR-piClim-control-SU5-lu_20151231_sechiba_rest.nc

The config.card file points to these modified SRF restarts, named CM616-LR-piClim-control-SU[12345]-lu. 

SEE ALSO : /ccc/work/cont003/igcmg/igcmg/IGCM/RESTART/LMDZOR/PROD/rfmip/README