Optimization of the ORCHIDEE albedo

Main actors: Philippe Peylin, Vladislav Bastrikov

Objectives:

• Use observed satellite albedo to calibrate the current albedo scheme (MODIS albedo will be used first)
• First change the bare soil albedo (currently a function of soil color following a color map from FAO and fixed albedo values for each color type (13))
• Then optimize the standard coeficient for the vegetation NIR and VIS albedo to match the satellite albedo

All results are currently display under the page:

​http://orchidas.lsce.ipsl.fr/dev/albedo2.php