CliMA Land

CliMA Land is a next generation Land Surface Model (LSM) designed to use the broadly available remote sensing data as well as ground-based flux measurements. CliMA Land is a highly modular platform to promote research at different scales from tissue to organ, whole plant, and ecosystem. Therefore, we deliver CliMA Land via a patch of packages (also referred to as sub-modules) to reduce the time used to initialize a research project. As a result, the repository is more a collection of tutorials and examples for users, rather than a place to store the code for all sub-modules. This project is supposed to be a community effort, leveraging all the work that has been done in Land Surface Modeling from various groups around the world. The ultimate goal is to build a bio-physical model that represents the state of the art and can be coupled to the CliMA Earth System Model (ESM), i.e. Caltech's CliMA initiative.