jhamman / mtclim5

Next Generation Mountain Microclimate Simulation Model

Hi there 👋

I am a climate scientist and engineer. Around GitHub, you'll find me contributing to open source projects like Xarray and Pangeo. I am the CTO at Earthmover, a startup building the cloud platform for scientific data teams. Previously, I was a co-founder and the technology director at CarbonPlan, a non-profit working on data science and policy issues surrounding carbon removal and climate solutions, and a project scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I'm a licensed Professional Engineer and I have a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington.

mtclim5's Issues

Food for thought -- additional algorithms

Below is a list of references that may be relevant to the extensions possible with this package.

• Flerchinger, G. N., W. Xaio, D. Marks, T. J. Sauer, and Q. Yu (2009), Comparison of algorithms for incoming atmospheric long-wave radiation, Water Resour. Res., 45, W03423, doi:10.1029/2008WR007394.

Forcing disaggregation tool

From @tbohn via personal communication:

I think you're planning on adding disaggregation of P to the tool, right? I can point you to my code that does this, if you haven't got it already.

In addition, it's possible to estimate fdir (fraction of solar that is direct) from tskc. This hasn't been done previously in VIC, but there's a fairly simple equation relating fdir tskc (which only you have access to, in your tool, at this point). I can point you to a reference for it.

If we incorporate that equation into the tool, then all necessary carbon inputs can be estimated without being supplied. Thus, your tool could produce all of these variables (Catm, coszen, fdir, and par) optionally if the user wants to run carbon in VIC.

Of course, these inputs are specific to the carbon stuff that I added to VIC. I don't know what your plans are for the CN module - whether that will become the official carbon module for VIC. Presumably it would need similar inputs, but maybe it computes them itself.

... and it turns out that I'm wrong; fdir is estimated in MTCLIM.

Repository name

@jhamman : It's not really for us to give release numbers to the mtclim code. This is why we may the mtclim code on UW-Hydro private. I'd prefer if we give this some more generic name and then make clear that we use mtclim v.x as part of that. Just like in the existing VIC code, we should wrap the mtclim code so we can update it pretty easily.

Notebook error

Hi Joe,
I was going to try out this Notebook but it gave me an error. Possibly it is corrupted? Do you have another version?
mtclim_example.ipynb
Thanks,
Christina