# Land

**Repository Path**: hydro3/Land

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Land
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-05-16
- **Last Updated**: 2021-09-22

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# CLIMA-Land
This project is supposed to be a community effort, leveraging all the work that has been done in Land Surface Modeling from various groups around the world. The ultimate goal here is to build a Soil-Plant-Atmosphere continuum (SPAC) bio-physical model that represents the state of the art and can be coupled to the Climate-Machine, i.e. Caltech's CLIMA initiative. The model will include multi-layer soil and canopy properties and models "observables" that can be used as constraint, e.g. Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF) on the leaf-level propagated through the canopy, reflectance in various bands as measured from space, soil and vegetation moisture content. A specific focus will be on water-carbon feedbacks by testing recent developments in stomatal optimization theories as well as plant hydraulics. We will try to adhere to some [coding structure](https://github.com/gbonan/CLM-ml_v0) developed by Gordan Bonan but implement parts from other programs, such as [SCOPE](https://github.com/Christiaanvandertol/SCOPE).

The entire model will be written in [Julia](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/) (Julia: ["Looks like Python, feels like Lisp, runs like Fortran"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h8rQyEpiZA&t=)), which should make the barrier of entry lower for incoming students, PostDocs, etc). If you want to contribute, please contact us (cfranken@caltech.edu).

![Fluorescence from Space](pics/world_sif.jpg?raw=true "SIF from Space")

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