Geophysical fields are time invariant fields provided to GEM at the beginning of a simulation.

They get created from different geophysical field databases.

Geophysical fields should always match your model grid. They can be larger but should match every model grid point one-to-one.

Dictionary of geophysical fields

variable namedescriptionunits / range
ME, MENF

topography elevation
ME: filtered topography used by GEM
MENF: unfiltered topography

m
(may be negative,
if below sea-level)
MGland fraction (“land-sea mask”)0.0 – 1.0 (no unit)
VF
('2V' in output files)

vegetation fraction per class (26 classes)
See below!

0.0 – 1.0 (no unit)
VGclass number of dominant vegetation type of above classes
1 – 26 (integer, no unit)
GAglacier fraction ( same as VF(2) )0.0 – 1.0 (no unit)
J1/J2 (ISBA)
SAND/CLAY (CLASS)
percentage of sand/clay per layer
J1/J2: 5 layers; SAND/CLAY : 1-n layers
0.0 – 100.0 %
DPTH (CLASS)depth to dedrockm
LDPT (FLake)lake depthm
Z0(effective) total roughness length for momentumm
ZPln(Z0)no unit
ZTOPorographic roughness length for momentumm
ZVG2vegetation roughness length for momentum
m
SSSsubgrid orography SD (small scale)
m
LHlaunching heightm
Y7,Y8,Y9 subgrid topography gradient correlationsno unit

Table of Vegetation Fractions

The field is called 'VF' for Vegetation Fractions even though it also contains ocean, glaciers, and lakes. The following is a table of GEM input vegetation fractions and corresponding roughness lengths. For CLASS the roughness length is the height of the vegetation divided by 10.
In the geophysical fields the variable is called 'VF' but in model output it is called '2V'.

Instead of having one field name for each surface (vegetation) fraction it was decided to use the same name, 'VF', but different levels to distinguish the different types. The fields themselves contain the fraction of the specific type.

Arbitrary level #DescriptionZ0 [m]
1

salt water, ocean

0.001
2glacier0.0003
3inland lake0.001
4evergreen needle-leaf trees1.5
5evergreen broadleaf trees3.5
6deciduous needle-leaf trees1.0
7deciduous broadleaf trees2.0
8tropical broadleaf trees3.0
9drought deciduous trees0.8
10evergreen broadleaf shrubs0.05
11deciduous shrubs0.15
12thorn shrubs0.15
13short grass and forbs0.02
14 long grass
0.08
15crops
0.08
16rice
0.08
17sugar
0.35
18maize
0.25
19cotton
0.1
20irrigated crops
0.08
21urban
1.35
22tundra
0.01
23swamp
0.05
24desert / bare soil
0.05
25mixed wood forests
1.5
26mixed shrubs
0.05

Creation of geophysical fields

Geophysical fields for GEM can get created with GenPhysX.

Processing of “vegetation” fields in GenPhysX -> GEM -> CLASS

Click on the following link to learn about the : Processing of “vegetation” fields


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