MOSART basin area

[James King]

Hi all,

Hopefully an easy question for those in the know - which variable in MOSART (as implemented in CLM5) gives you the river basin area? The output files contain:

areatotal basin upstream areatotal [m2] (global sum - 2.5 x 10^15 sq m)
areatotal2 computed basin upstream areatotal [m2] (global sum - 2.9 x 10^15 sq m)

with the implication that the latter variable is calculated interactively. However, it's not clear to me which of these is used to calculate river discharge. I've looked at the code but it's not clear to me exactly where the area variable is coming from.

Thanks,

James

 

[swensosc]

areatotal is read in from the input data file, areatotal2 is calculated internally from the area_global variable.

 

[James King]

Thanks - sounds like areatotal2 might be more meaningful.