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Documentation

You will find here information on the code itself, dealing with either scientific or technical aspects. More information on how to use the model can be find on the Scripts page and HowTo.

Coding Guidelines

A coding guidelines has been established to facilitate the developement of the ORCHIDEE code. All developers should follow such guide lines when improving or adding new features to the code. Moreover, any new suggestions to these coding guide lines, in order to improve the readability, the efficiency and the robustness of the code are welcome. You can make these suggestions to the ORCHIDEE project group. See coding_guidelines.pdf​ and coding_guidelines.doc​

Scientific documentation

Embedded documentation

ORCHIDEE has a scientific documentation embedded into the code that generates html and pdf versions. See ORCHIDEE_DOC page for knowing more. Below are listed the documentation of some versions of ORCHIDEE :

• trunk ORCHIDEE, revision 1240: ​the pdf document, ​the web documentation and ​a reduced version of the pdf document.
• branches/ORCHIDEE_DOC, revision 808: ​the pdf document, ​the web documentation and ​a reduced version of the pdf document.
  

Specific topics

• CMIP5 METAFOR questionary.
• Parameters: list of the parameters used by the model
• Physical range of the parameters: ​Parameters Range Table

Technical Reports

• 2103/12 B. Guenet ​REPORT ON THE ROLE OF LITTER IN THE WATER FLUXES.pdf
• 2014/10 A. Ducharne ​Technical note on hydrol.f90 (in progress)
• 2014/10 F. Wang: Notes on the coupling with LMDz CouplingLMDZ

Tutorial Course

• Presentation that gives a brief overview of the processes, structure and inputs/outputs structure of ORCHIDEE ​cours_orchidee_dec2012.pdf
• Presentation Get started : Code management, installation, simulation, documentation introduction_part2_21feb2013_JG.pdf
• First hands on exercice with ORCHIDEE TP_ORCHIDEE_base.pdf
• Introduction to ORCHIDEE explained by a user, Amélie Rajaud spring 2013 ORCHIDEE_SIMULATIONS_for_dummies_Rajaud_2013.pdf​

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)

Reference paper

• 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

Other Presentations

• Parallelism : To know about how ORCHIDEE is parallelized, look at the following page : ParallelVersion.
• Technical notes from G. Krinner that give the main equations of STOMATE and LPJ components. ​note.technique_krinner99.ps
  
• Presentation that gives the structure in which ORCHIDEE was coded (2000). ​orchidee.pdf
• 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.)

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