Model Developments

Documentation

Source Code

Reference Simulations

Group Activities & Contact

Documentation

Technical guide to use the model

• Documentation/UserGuide: main user's guide for installing, running and working with the model ORCHIDEE.

• See external documentation for running ORCHIDEE and other configurations with IPSL running environment "modipsl and libIGCM": ​https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/igcmg_doc/wiki/Doc

• See also both scientific and technical documentation given during the different sessions of the ORCHIDEE Training course : GroupActivities/Training

Understanding the model

• HYDROL : ​Technical note on hydrol.f90 (A. Ducharne, work in progress, updated on April 25, 2018)

• EXTERNALIZED PARAMETERS:
  • List of parameters used by the model trunk version. See also the same list in ​orchidee.default in the latest version of the trunk
  • Physical range of the parameters: ​Parameters Range Table (no information on the date of the document and the corresponding version of ORCHIDEE)

• The usage of frac_nobio in the code is documented here: Documentation/Frac_Nobio

• Embedded documentation : ORCHIDEE has a scientific documentation embedded into the code that generates html and pdf versions.
  • See ​the web scientific documentation for ORCHIDEE/trunk revision 2425
  • Download the pdf of the documentation for the same version and some older version on this place, in complete or reduced form : ​https://vesg.ipsl.upmc.fr/thredds/catalog/IPSLFS/orchidee/DOXYGEN/catalog.html
  • See ORCHIDEE_DOC page for knowing more about this documentation.

Information about input and validation data

• Atmospheric forcing data sets: All the information on the forcing files available to run ORCHIDEE are here: Documentation/Forcings
• Ancillary data: All the information on the anscillary data files which are needed to describe the various surface characteristics used by ORCHIDEE are here: Documentation/Ancillary

Archive

Find here old presentations and documentations : Documentation/Archive