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== LS3MIP reference paper ==

van den Hurk, Kim, Krinner, Seneviratne, Derksen, Oki, Douville, Colin, Ducharne, Cheruy, Puma, Wada, Li, Jia, Alessandri, Lawrence, Weedon, Ellis, Hagemann, Mao, Flanner, Zampieri, Law (2016). '''The Land Surface, Snow and Soil moisture Model Intercomparison Program (LS3MIP): aims, set-up and expected outcome'''. GMD, 9, 2809-2832. [http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/9/2809/2016/gmd-9-2809-2016.html GMD link]

== LS3MIP subactivities with points of contact in the ORCHIDEE group ==

- '''LS3MIP Coordination''': Gerhard Krinner
- '''LMIP forced simulations''': Agnès Ducharne
- '''LFMIP coupled simulations''': Frédérique Cheruy
- '''ESM-SnowMIP''': Gerhard Krinner
- '''Soil-Parameter MIP''' (based on LMIP, coordinated by M. Cuntz and A. Verhoef): A. Ducharne, with C. Ottlé, J. Polcher, F. Wang
- '''Snow SW radiative effect''' (coordinated by Mark Flanner): Gerhard Krinner

== Output variables for LS3MIP/CMIP6 ==

Initiated by Olivier Boucher, and followed by Frédérique Cheruy

== Calendar ==

Still not well defined, but simulations likely due during the first semester of 2017

== List of simulations ==

|| Experiment ID         || Experiment design    || Config LOA || Start || End   || Nb. ens. || Comments || MIP and Tier || ORCHIDEE PI [[BR]]
|| Land-Hist             || Land only, GWP3 forcing     ||  L  || 1850  || 2014  || 1   ||    ||  LMIP Tier1  ||  A. Ducharne  [[BR]]
|| Land-Hist-cruNcep     || Land only, CRU-NCEP forcing ||  L  || 1901  || 2014  || 1   ||    ||  LMIP Tier2  ||  A. Ducharne  [[BR]]
|| Land-Hist-princeton   || Land only, PGF forcing      ||  L  || 1901  || 2014  || 1   ||    ||  LMIP Tier2  ||  A. Ducharne  [[BR]]
|| Land-Hist-wfdei       || Land only, WFDEI forcing    ||  L  || 1901  || 2014  || 1   ||    ||  LMIP Tier2  ||  A. Ducharne  [[BR]]
|| Land-Future           ||  Land only        ||  L  ||  2015  || 2100   ||  6  ||  Forcing based on at least future
climate scenarios from the ScenarioMIP  ||  LMIP Tier2  || A. Ducharne   [[BR]]
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