Preparing The Torne River basin data (PILPS-2e)
This page describes how the PILPS-2e data is prepared for forcing the
ORCHIDEE model. This experiment is carried over the Torne River
Basin. The data is transformed into netCDf using this code (Version last updated on
15-May-2000) which transforms it
into a netCDF file.
The tar-file contains a shell-script (do_all) which should do
everything for you (For the only for years 19 through 81) but still a
few explanations are needed.
The code mk2dforcing will prompt you for the following information :
- Path to the directory where all the files by grid point are located.
- Path to the directory in which mk2dforcing will write the resulting netCDf file.
- Should the data be compressed by gathering all land points ? Options are y (yes) or n (no).
- Yest to be done.
- The name of the file to be created.
For the moment the tasks of the mk2dforcing program are very
simple. Read the original data, change the units and output the
forcing in a netCDF file so that it can be used by ORCHIDEE.The code
works year by year so that all the data fits in memory and that the
writting can be more efficient.
The files created by mk2dforcing can readily be read by the IOIPSL
package. The flinget routine will even uncompress the data on the fly.
Configuring ORCHIDEE for the ISLSCP data
Not know !
A sample run.def file is available.
Jan Polcher
Last modified: Thu Jan 13 17:52:34 CET 2000