Otter Simulation Notes, SWRunning, 31 Jan 91

Here are the draft simulation runs promised for the 4 sites I promised
at the Ames meeting. Santiam did not have a complete climate file so is not
included. Note that the CASCHD, WARINGWD, and SCIO runs all were initiated
with full soil water on Jan 1, and the Metolius with 5.34cm. LAI was defined
(total) of 12 for CASCHD, WARINGWD and SCIO and 4 for Metolius.
 These are lower than measured,
but the model currently over-predicts canopy ppt interception, and possibly
leaf conductance for high LAI stands. The fix for this problem should not be
done casually, as it will help define an important research question. I did
not define site specific specific leaf areas, soil water capacities, stem
and other stand carbon variables etc. There was insufficient time, and in-
complete data to build the simulations that carefully.
         So, treat these results as a first warmup to look at relative
seasonal timing of ecosystem activity, relative differences between sites,
and a practice for all of us at my producing, and you retrieving and analyzing
these simulations. More "offficial" runs will follow.

PS. To translate the .DAY output numbers to recognizable units, all water
variables, when divided by 100 become 1-dimwensional water, cm, as expressed in
hydrology. Ex. a soil water of 534 is actually 5.34cm. All carbon variables,
when divided by 1000, become Mg/ha/yr of CARBON, not biomass!! So, 12000 PSN
is 12Mg/ha/yr photosynthetic production. The B# variable is pre-dawn leaf
water potential in MPA.