Getting started: EcH₂O-iso user Guide

This document provides a tutorial that guides users through the process of compiling EcH₂O-iso, preparing the input files, and running and visualizing an EcH₂O-iso simulation.

Tutorial

• Installation
  • 1. Compilation instructions for EcH₂O-iso using gcc
    • 2 Dependencies
    • 3. Making ech2o_iso
    • 4. Making asc2c
  • Contact
• Model set-up
  • Introduction
    • The CSF PCRaster format
    • The configuration files
  • Preparing the database
    • Creating a base map and importing the elevation model
    • Delineating the drainage network
    • Soil characteristics and surface properties
  • Climate files
  • Forest and species data
  • Leaf area index forcing
    • Vegetation Parameters file
    • Initial conditions for vegetation state variables
    • Initialization using tables
    • Initialization using maps
• Case study
  • Configuration files
  • Populating the database
    • Creating a base map and importing the elevation model
    • Delineating the drainage network
    • Defining soil and surface properties
    • Defining vegetation parameters
    • Climate inputs
  • Reporting results
  • Running the program
  • Spinning-up the model
• Configuration (main) file keywords
  • Path definitions
  • Tracking
  • Options
  • Time controls
  • Vegetation dynamics
  • Climate information
  • Irrigation
  • Spatial domain geometry
  • S(ubs)urface parameters
  • Snow parameters
  • Channel parameters
  • Initial (sub)surface states
  • Vegetation parameters
  • Initial vegetation states *
  • Initial vegetation states **
  • Simulation outputs: map report switches
  • Map mask for time series locations
  • Simulation outputs: time series report switches
• Configuration (tracking) file keywords
  • Options
  • Toggle switches
  • Two-pore domain
  • Climate information for tracers
  • Initial conditions for water tracers
  • Simulation outputs: map report switches
  • Simulation outputs: time series report switches

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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