Project: 
 
  Incorporate SiB2 (Simple Biosphere Model) surface flux and 
  temperature solution into CLM3

Goal:

  SiB2 solves for 
      - vegetation temperature and fluxes
      - ground temperature and fluxes
      - soil temperatures
      - canopy air space 
  as a simultaneous system of equations. 

Motivation: 

  The advantage of this approach over that currently used in CLM is that it
  includes prognostic canopy air space (which is necessary to include
  isotopes in CLM), avoids an iterative solution for vegetation
  temperature and fluxes, and avoids CLM's two-stage solution of first
  vegetation and then ground temperature and fluxes.

Authority: 
   Gordon Bonan

Project Lead(s): 
   Gordon Bonan and Mariana Vertenstein

Resources:
   Keith Oleson
   Mariana Vertenstein

Effort:
   6 person-months
   This project and its associated time line will not be started until
   after the Land Model Working Group Meeting on March 16, 2005.