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Documentation

You will find here information on the code itself, dealing with either scientific or technical aspects. Information on how to use the model can be find elsewhere (Scripts page).

Scientific documentation embedded in the code

ORCHIDEE has now an scientific documentation embedded into its code that generates html and pdf versions. See ORCHIDEE_DOC page for knowing more.

The documentation for version branches/ORCHIDEE_DOC, revision 808 : ​the pdf document, ​the web documentation and ​a reduced version of the pdf document.

More scientific documentation

• CMIP5 METAFOR questionary.
• Parameters: list of the parameters used by the model (to complete)

Main Presentations

• Technical notes from G. Krinner that give the main equations of STOMATE and LPJ components. ​note.technique_krinner99.ps
  
• A presentation that gives the structure in which ORCHIDEE was coded. ​orchidee.pdf
• A presentation that gives a brief overview of the processes, structure and inputs/outputs structure of ORCHIDEE ​cours_orchidee_sept2011.pdf
• Installation and off-line usage of ORCHIDEE with modipsl framework and libIGCM running environnement ​Cours-ORCHIDEE-oct2011

Phd thesis

• Isabelle Gouttevin, Representing high latitudes in a land surface model : soil freezing and model performances, 2012. Download the manuscript ​here (in french) and the presentation ​here (in english)

Papers of reference

• Ducoudré, Nathalie I., Laval, Katia, et Perrier, Alain (1993). SECHIBA, a New Set of Parameterizations of the Hydrologic Exchanges at the Land-Atmosphere Interface within the LMD Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate, 6(2), 248--273.​link
• Polcher, J., Laval, K., Dümenil, L., Lean, J., et Rowntree, P. R. (1996). Comparing three land surface schemes used in general circulation models. Journal of Hydrology, 180(1-4), 373--394. ​link
• Ducharne, A., Laval, K., et Polcher, J. (1998). Sensitivity of the hydrological cycle to the parametrization of soil hydrology in a GCM. Climate Dynamics, 14, 307--327. ​link
• Rosnay, P. de et Polcher, J. (1999). Modelling root water uptake in a complex land surface scheme coupled to a GCM. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 2(2/3), 239--255. ​link
• Krinner, G., Viovy, N., Noblet-Ducoudre, N. de, Ogee, J., Polcher, J., Friedlingstein, P., Ciais, P., Sitch, S., and Prentice, I. C (2005). A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere-biosphere system. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB1015. ​link
• d'Orgeval, T. et Polcher, J. (2008). Impacts of precipitation events and land-use changes on West African river discharges during the years 1951--2000. Climate Dynamics, 31(2), 249--262. ​link
• Guimberteau M., Laval K., Perrier A. and Polcher J.: Global effect of irrigation and its impact on the onset of the Indian summer monsoon, Climate Dynamics, in press (Available online 5 Dec. 2011), doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1252-5 ​link
• Guimberteau, M., Drapeau, G., Ronchail, J., Sultan, B., Polcher, J., Martinez, J.-M., Prigent, C., Guyot, J.-L., Cochonneau, G., Espinoza, J. C., Filizola, N., Fraizy, P., Lavado, W., De Oliveira, E., Pombosa, R., Noriega, L., and Vauchel, P. (2012): Discharge simulation in the sub-basins of the Amazon using ORCHIDEE forced by new datasets, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 911-935, doi:10.5194/hess-16-911-2012, 2012 ​link
• Guimberteau M., Perrier A., Laval K. and Polcher J. (2012): A comprehensive approach to analyze discrepancies between land surface models and in-situ measurements: a case study over the US and Illinois with SECHIBA forced by NLDAS, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 3973-3988, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3973-2012, 2012 ​link

Technical documentation

Manuals

Written by Fabienne Maignan and Martial Mancip in 2008.

​Interface Control Document
​Design Document
​User Manual

Some parts of the user manual need to be updated.

Parallelism

To know about how ORCHIDEE is parallelized, look at the following page : ParallelVersion.