Editing Site Parameters

The Site Parameter Editor dialog box, displayed below, allows you to edit the parameters that describe the site that you are simulating. For example, you will enter the latitude and longitude for your site, soil texture, information about the climate, the initial condition of the organic matter, the initial relative water content, etc.

The source of the site parameters can be either Century5 NetCDF files, or Century4 site.100 files.

Parameters are organized into the following categories:

• Climate
• Soil and physical controls
• External nutrient input
• Crop and grassland organic matter initial values
• Forest organic matter initial values
• Initial mineral N, P, and S
• Initial soil relative water content
• Initial lower layer pools values
• Erosion pools loss factors

Additional Site Parameters for DayCent5

• Hydrology and Biophysical Controls
• Soil Temperature

The following view of the Site Parameter Editor has links to topics describing the parts of the editor. Move the mouse cursor over the editor element for which you want more information, and click.

For Century4 and DayCent4 site parameter files, which are text files, comments can be inserted at the beginning of the file. Each comment line should begin with one of the following symbols: # ! ;

See Also

Site Parameters Validation
Model Parameters
About the Model Internal Parameterization
Editing Site Management