Welcome to the CTSM documentation

This document has three major sections.

• 1. CTSM1 User’s Guide
  • 1.1. Overview
  • 1.2. Setting Up and Running a Case
  • 1.3. Using CLM tools
  • 1.4. Adding New Resolutions
  • 1.5. Running Special Cases
  • 1.6. Running Single Point Regional Cases
  • 1.7. Running PTCLM
  • 1.8. Troubleshooting
  • 1.9. Testing
• 2. CLM Technical Note
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Surface Characterization, Vertical Discretization, and Model Input Requirements
  • 2.3. Surface Albedos
  • 2.4. Radiative Fluxes
  • 2.5. Momentum, Sensible Heat, and Latent Heat Fluxes
  • 2.6. Soil and Snow Temperatures
  • 2.7. Hydrology
  • 2.8. Snow Hydrology
  • 2.9. Stomatal Resistance and Photosynthesis
  • 2.10. Photosynthetic Capacity
  • 2.11. Plant Hydraulics
  • 2.12. Lake Model
  • 2.13. Glaciers
  • 2.14. Model for Scale Adaptive River Transport (MOSART)
  • 2.15. Urban Model (CLMU)
  • 2.16. CN Pools
  • 2.17. Plant Respiration
  • 2.18. Fixation and Uptake of Nitrogen (FUN)
  • 2.19. Carbon and Nitrogen Allocation
  • 2.20. Vegetation Phenology and Turnover
  • 2.21. Decomposition
  • 2.22. External Nitrogen Cycle
  • 2.23. Plant Mortality
  • 2.24. Fire
  • 2.25. Methane Model
  • 2.26. Crops and Irrigation
  • 2.27. Transient Land Use and Land Cover Change
  • 2.28. Dynamic Global Vegetation
  • 2.29. Technical Documentation for FATES
  • 2.30. Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs)
  • 2.31. Dust Model
  • 2.32. Carbon Isotopes
  • 2.33. Land-Only Mode
  • 2.34. References
• 3. CTSM-LILAC User’s Guide
  • 3.1. Introduction and overview of LILAC
  • 3.2. Obtaining, building and running CTSM with LILAC
  • 3.3. Calling CTSM from an atmosphere model
  • 3.4. Instructions on using CTSM with specific atmosphere models

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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