| 38 | | To be updated when questions appear or when developments are improving |
| 39 | | |
| 40 | | |
| 41 | | - '''11 layers soil hydrology (ready, in the trunk)''' |
| 42 | | |
| 43 | | Main Resp: Jan, Agnes, |
| 44 | | |
| 45 | | Improvement over summer with “some work on W stress functions” |
| 46 | | |
| 47 | | No large conceptual changes |
| 48 | | |
| 49 | | |
| 50 | | - '''Common soil vertical discretization between Hydrology and Thermics (ready, not yet commited in the trunk)'' |
| 51 | | |
| 52 | | Main Resp: Frederique, Agnes, Jan |
| 53 | | |
| 54 | | Soil thermics goes up to 10 meter |
| 55 | | |
| 56 | | Hydrology stops most likely at 2 m; Test by Fuxing to choose for CM6 are ongoing |
| 57 | | |
| 58 | | a general “scheme” to have flexible depth need to be implemented (following a group discussion in January 2015) |
| 59 | | |
| 60 | | |
| 61 | | - '''New soil thermal properties (function of USDA soil texture classes) (ready, in the trunk)''' |
| 62 | | |
| 63 | | Main Resp: Agnes, Frederique |
| 64 | | |
| 65 | | Tests made by Agnes & Fuxing & Frederique ? |
| 66 | | |
| 67 | | |
| 68 | | - '''Soil freezing following I. Gouttevin’s Phd (ready, in the trunk but improvement to be done)'' |
| 69 | | |
| 70 | | Current scheme conserve energy on annual basis (from freezing/thawing) and will be used as default. |
| 71 | | |
| 72 | | Revision is planned for “instantaneous” conservation (late 2015) |
| 73 | | |
| 74 | | Use of the "Diag_level" should be droped after the common soil vertical discretization |
| 75 | | |
| 76 | | Need a working group (IG, GK, …) ? |
| 77 | | |
| 78 | | |
| 79 | | - '''New 3 layers snow module (in the trunk, improvement on going)''' |
| 80 | | following Tao Wang's work. |
| 81 | | |
| 82 | | Main Resp: Catherine, Tao, Philippe C, Jan |
| 83 | | |
| 84 | | Trunc contain the latest version used in MICT (since Mai) |
| 85 | | |
| 86 | | Ongoing improvement to have a snow fraction and fully implicit coupling |
| 87 | | |
| 88 | | Actions will be followed by a little group (FC, AD, JP, CO, JLD, PP, PC, TW, GK, JG, PM) with possible implementation by Fuxing and Jan |
| 89 | | |
| 90 | | |
| 91 | | - '''Adjustment of the albedos (on going: objectif Juin 2015)''' |
| 92 | | |
| 93 | | Replace Bares Soil albedo by the “MODIS – Background Albedo” from JRC-TIPor from ECOCLIMAP-2 |
| 94 | | |
| 95 | | Optimize the NIR and VIS 12 vegetation albedos using MODIS global albedo |
| 96 | | |
| 97 | | Ongoing action by PP and VB in Mai-June |
| 98 | | |
| 99 | | Main Resp. : Philippe P, Vladislav, Frederique |
| 100 | | |
| 101 | | |
| 102 | | - '''Nitrogen cycle (Autumn 2015)''' |
| 103 | | |
| 104 | | Main Resp: Nicolas, Bertrand, Sushi, Daniel, Philippe C |
| 105 | | |
| 106 | | Code ready, under debugging phase |
| 107 | | |
| 108 | | Possible large impact on climate simulations: NEED TO LAUNCH first global tests NO later than Mid October 2015 |
| 109 | | |
| 110 | | Global forced and coupled tests to be done and analysed before end of 2015 |
| 111 | | |
| 112 | | |
| 113 | | - '''Permafrost and Yedoma deposit (to be decided, spring 2016)''' |
| 114 | | |
| 115 | | Main Resp: Philippe C., Dan, Shushi |
| 116 | | |
| 117 | | Permafrost module currently implemented in MICT version |
| 118 | | |
| 119 | | Main impact is a source of CO2 to the Atm.; small impact on soil thermal properties |
| 120 | | |
| 121 | | Yedoma (deep permafrost): impact through CO2 emissions |
| 122 | | |
| 123 | | “coupling” with the new E/W soil discretization need to be done |
| 124 | | |
| 125 | | Extrapolation of the W content below soil W depth to be chosen |
| 126 | | |
| 127 | | Need some work for the integration with the selected upper soil T/W common discretization |
| 128 | | |
| 129 | | |
| 130 | | - '''Crops''' |
| 131 | | |
| 132 | | Main Resp: Nicolas 1-2, Philippe C., Xuichen |
| 133 | | |
| 134 | | Addition of a distinction between winter and spring C3 crops (phenology) |
| 135 | | |
| 136 | | Small change to be added autumn 2015 |
| 137 | | |
| 138 | | POSSIBLE inclusion of ORC-CROP modules (to be discuss Autumn 2015). |
| 139 | | |
| 140 | | |
| 141 | | - '''Fires following SPITFIRE (to be added in the trunk in beginning of autumn)''' |
| 142 | | |
| 143 | | Main Resp: Patricia, Yue Chao, Philippe C. |
| 144 | | |
| 145 | | Coupling with Trunc to be done in September 2015 (small effort) |
| 146 | | |
| 147 | | Forcing for “human-induced” fires need to be prepared |
| 148 | | |
| 149 | | Modification of the albedo following fires under “implementation” |
| 150 | | |
| 151 | | Implementation with ORC-CAN: need to select “burned” trees ! |
| 152 | | |
| 153 | | |
| 154 | | - '''DGVM (ready, in the trunk, some calibration needed)''' |
| 155 | | |
| 156 | | Main Resp: Philippe C., Nicolas Viovy, Dan Zhu |
| 157 | | |
| 158 | | Ready for the High latitude PFTs ; Ongoing “check/calibration” for the tropics |
| 159 | | |
| 160 | | Update of the Trunc already done (In May 2015 for Paleo simul tests) |
| 161 | | |
| 162 | | Re-calibration “needed” when Nitrogen cycle will be included |
| 163 | | |
| 164 | | Implementation with ORC-CAN will require substantial tests/dev. |
| 165 | | |
| 166 | | |
| 167 | | - '''SPECIFIC MERGES FOR CMIP6-V2''' |
| 168 | | |
| 169 | | CMIP6-V2 will be based on the NEW FOREST REPRESENTATION (ORC-CAN) including: |
| 170 | | |
| 171 | | - Forest management |
| 172 | | - Two streams radiation transfer scheme |
| 173 | | - Canopy structure |
| 174 | | - Age classes (LCC/LM) |
| 175 | | - Hydraulic stress for trees |
| 176 | | - Crop management |
| 177 | | - Dynamic phosphorous cycle ? |
| 178 | | - New plant functional types (Mosses/lichens & Shrub) |
| 179 | | - New soil carbon module with « Priming » and DOC, POC, Vertical discretization,…. |
| 180 | | |
