Deactivate Urban model

[holthaum@smail_uni-koeln_de]

Hello,we are runninng CLM4.5 with CESM 1.2.2 and want to deactivate as many urban modelling parts as possible.Is there a configuration file, where we can say that CLM should not use any urban models?Thank you very much. 

 

[erik]

There's not a simple out of the box way to do this. But, the way to do it is to set PCT_URBAN on the surface dataset to zero. Taking into mind that if you remove PCT_URBAN you have to add to another land-unit. Hence, the easiest way to do it is to create a new surface dataset with mksurfdata_map and use a rawdata file for urban that has PCT_URBAN identically zero everywhere.See the CLM users guide for doing this.http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm1.2/clm/models/lnd/clm/doc/UsersGuide/x11868.html#mksurfdata_map_byhand In the namelist make sure mksrf_furban points to a dataset where PCT_URBAN is zeroed out.