Land Surface Modeling Project
October 12, 2006
Due November 28, 2006
1. As discussed in the
class, this modeling project will provide you an opportunity to obtain hands-on
experience in running the Community
Land Model (CLM), a start-of-the-art land-surface biophysical and
hydrological model. You will have had the handout by Tuesday (10/12/2006) that
shows how to access the UNIX system, how to set up the model, how to run it, and
how to view the results.
2. Every graduate student will have an account to access the Sun Workstation. It is expected
that each member will have some hands-on experience in the modeling.
3. Each student will determine his or her own experiments, and will summarize
your results in a written report (~15 pages).
The report is due before the class on November 28, 2006.
Your project can be about anything, from a sensitivity of the surface energy
balance to leaf area index to the impacts of land cover change on runoff. Think
about what we have learned so far to formulate your scientific questions.
4. On Tuesday (10/12/2006), the class will be held in the computer laboratory GEO
Room 2.108. Dr. Guo-Yue Niu will give a guest lecture about the CLM and show you
how to access the UNIX system. You may also access the UNIX system if you have
an X-Win32 installed on your PC; see
http://www.starnet.com/products/downloads.asp to learn how to download an
educational version.
You are also welcome to use a UNIX terminal in my lab (5.220D) as well as in any
UNIX machines in the geology department. For UNIX questions, you may want to ask
Effie Jarrett, Senior System Analyst, GEO 3.216A,
effie@geo.utexas.edu, 512-471-6184.
For PC questions, you may want to ask
Ty Lehman,
Senior Systems Analyst, GEO
3.320, lehman@mail.utexas.edu,
512-471-7339.
5. As always, ask me or Dr. Guo-Yue Niu (GEO 5.220D,
niu@geo.utexas.edu 512-471-5333) if you
have a question.
6. For further information select one of the following links.
Model documentation:
Presentations by Students in Spring 2004:
Reports by Students in Fall 2005:
Websites with overview of unix and vi commands (Courtesy of Lindsey Gulden):
Have fun!