Adds a lower limit to stem allocation to avoid negative states #6589
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The stem:leaf allocation variable can go negative without this limiter, which can cause negative stem carbon pools.
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Can you say more about why this is non-BFB ? |
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A condition can occur where the climate in a given gridcell is not supporting the growth of a woody vegetation type, and the carbon stock for that type as well as its productivity is declining over time. In some very rare instances this can lead to a negative value for a calculated parameter controlling how much new photosynthesis is put toward production of new wood. In even more rare circumstances this can lead to a calculation of unrealistically tall vegetation height, which can cause unrealistically high surface temperatures, which can trigger a model stop if the temperature exceeds a critical threshold. With this bug fix in place the calculated vegetation parameter for allocation of new wood is not allowed to go negative, and so there will be non-BFB results in a small number of gridcells for a small number of timesteps. The bug-fix will also prevent the occurrence of the even more rare canopy height and temperature threshold problems, and so runs that previously stopped will now continue. |
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Can you open an issue for the bug that this fixes? |
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Issue created (#6591 ) and PR description updated. |
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I see that this is connected to the v3.1beta milestone. Can it also be added to the v3.0.1 milestone, for integration with the V3 HES simulations? |
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v3 HES is going to use 3.1. It changes answers compared to 3.0.0 for watercycle cases so can't go in a 3.0.x tag. |
The stem:leaf allocation variable can go negative without this limiter, which can cause negative stem carbon pools.
Fixes #6591
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