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'Gamma_get_sm' turned off in MEGANV2.1 CLM4.5

HazelMooney

Hazel Mooney
New Member
Model: cesm2.2.0 clm 4.5 meganv2.1
Enquiry: soil moisture activity factor


Describe your problem or question:
I have been investigating activity factors for my model runs using CLM4.5. Soil moisture is constant throughout and in the fortran code VOCEmissionMod.F90 we see that the soil moisture activity factor algorithms are commented out, and the activity factor is instead specified at gamma_sm = 1.0_r8
See screenshots attached. I have been unable to find guidance online as to why the calculation has been commented out in this version of the model, can you provide any guidance or references to help me understand this?
soil-moisture_1.PNG

get_gamma_sm.PNG
 

oleson

Keith Oleson
CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
I don't know the history of that commented out code. I do know that MEGAN was recently updated and a new drought stress algorithm was implemented per this PR:


In it, gamma_sm was been changed to a function of btran:

gamma_sm = get_gamma_SM(btran(p))

However, there has been further conversation about low isoprene emissions perhaps partly as a result of that as indicated by the discussion in this issue:

 
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