GROUP and Objectives

• Persons: Frederique, Agnes, Jan, Catherine, Fuxing, Tao, Philippe P., Jean Louis, ?
• Main responsibles: Frederique ?
• Objectives / roadmap : Possible roadmap (to be refined and detailed)
  • Integrate a « unique soil discretisation for W and E » (travail de Fuxing) => date? Current version of Fuxing is 8 Meters for both E and W, with same discretization. Questions: AD and JP wonder about the impact on the runoff and thus river discharges and possibly the time required for the spin up (such time is likely to increase with a 8 m soil) ?
  • Modify the coupling of the new multi-layer snow with soil to be fully implicit. => date ? The current version in MICT works (couple and force mode) but is not fully implicit and the energy conservation at each time step should be checked! The work to make it fully implicit needs to be quantified with Tao (Anticipated to be relatively straightforward)
  • Eventually implement a soil freezing for the "thin layers of the new vertical discretization" => ?? A solution to avoid large oscillations needs to be proposed and tested.
  • Improve the albedo of the vegetation and bare soil: Work that can be pushed by a Post-doc from the CMUG project (Patricia is responsible of the project; person to be recruited); => Aout 2015; propositions: Make some tests with the We can try to re-activate the dependance of bare soil albedo to sol humidy with the 11 layers scheme.
• Remarks : The agreement and the details of such roadmap should be done; Most likely we need to separate the different TASKs with a different group of people for each?

Discussions

Agreed actions and Agenda