Team logistics

ORCHIDEE team meetings

The ORCHIDEE project group has defined a series of regular meetings to achieve the objectives of the project group and to maintain a regular flow of information between the core “ORCHIDEE project group” and the ensemble of developers and users (non-permanent scientists and engineers). The idea is to have regular meetings each week and to alternate between:

    • Technical meetings: Restricted to the steering committee and few other active developers. These concern management of the code, scientific and technical discussions concerning the implementation of the ORCHIDEE project decisions, and follow-ups of engineering work.
    • Project meetings: Restricted to the steering committee. The main objectives are general decision making and coordination of the model developement.
    • Developer/user meeting: Open to all. The main objectives are: 1) to inform all developers/users of the code about the ongoing ORCHIDEE developments and branch integration into the main version, and 2) to present and discuss a specific ongoing development (scientific or technical).

Management of the code:

In order to increase the efficiency of the code maintenance, development and management, we have grouped the different modules and routines by processes/technical aspects, following the diagram below. For each process or technical aspect, one person from the steering committee is responsible for managing all technical and scientific problems/bugs that arise (usually managed through a “ticket” system) and to report to the steering committee about the evolution of that part of the code.

How to contact us ?

Three mailing lists are used in order to facilitate the flow of information at different levels.

    • ORCHIDEE projet (orchidee-projet@listes.ipsl.fr): This list is restricted to the steering committee. It may be used by external people for a general request about the ORCHIDEE project
    • ORCHIDEE DEV (orchidee-dev@listes.ipsl.fr): To facilitate the exchange of technical information among all users/developers of the ORCHIDEE model, in paticular to circulate information on new technical improvements/developments, to report problems/bugs and to notify about ‘commits’ made by the ORCHIDEE team. You can subscribe at https://listes.ipsl.fr/sympa/info/orchidee-dev
    • ORCHIDEE HELP (orchidee-help@listes.ipsl.fr): For developers or users of the ORCHIDEE model to ask specific questions (mainly technical) linked to the use of the model or to report problems/bugs. This mailing list should be used only as a last resort.

The ORCHIDEE team

Objectives of the team

The ORCHIDEE project is dedicated to the development of the global Land Surface Model (LSM) ORCHIDEE and its use for a wide range of applications (from land surface processes to climate studies). The project is centered around a project team (referred to as the “ORCHIDEE project group”) whose main objective is to coordinate the strategy for the model development, maintenance, validation, distribution, and valorisation.

The project team consists of a “steering committee” including around 15 scientists (see figure below) who meet every two months to discuss and coordinate all model developments, validation and valorisation. Three specific tasks linked to the main responsabilities of the project team have been identified with a key leader:

    • Maintenance of the ORCHIDEE code (J. Ghattas).
    • Evaluation and validation of successive code releases (N. Vuichard).
    • General code quality, including documentation, risk assessment, and promotion of the code (F. Maignan).

Project leader: Philippe Peylin

Figure 1: Organisation of the project team

Role & responsabilities of the team

The ORCHIDEE project group:

Makes decisions about

    • the developments that will integrate into the standard version of ORCHIDEE
    • the order in which these developments will be included

Coordinates:

    • Recruitment of engineers dedicated to model developments
    • Planning of the different engineers resources
    • Shared funding to hire some of the engineers
    • Interactions with the different laboratories and institutes that are involved in the
      development of the model, and in particular the “pôle de modélisation” of IPSL institute.

Guarantees:

    • Regular deliveries of tagged versions of the model and their robustness at several computer centers (CCRT, IDRIS, LSCE)
    • Scientific evaluation
    • Updates of code documentation within these tagged versions
    • Production, archiving and access to reference simulations (both uncoupled and coupled to the GCM)
    • Training to new users through regular courses
    • User support through several tools (wiki site, help list via email, etc)

Communicates to all partners (developers, users, partner institutes) information on :

    • developement planning and their integration into the main code
    • ongoing and forthcoming research projects that use ORCHIDEE
    • mid-term strategy plans by annually updating this document.

Organises:

    • an annual general assembly
    • a project review with the partner institute managements
      (LMD and LSCE laboratories, “pôle de modélisation” of IPSL)

HOW to contact us ?

See contact section

Core team of ORCHIDEE

NameInstituteMain interestEmail
Cadule PatriciaIPSLCoupled mode management
Fire module (SPITFIRE)
patricia.cadule@lsce.ipsl.fr
Ciais PhilippeIPSL/LSCEContributions to overall direction and developmentsphilippe.ciais@lsce.ipsl.fr
Chéruy FrédériqueIPSL/LMDContributions to coupling with LMDZcheruy@lmd.jussieu.fr
Ducharne AgnèsSisyphe/UPMCContributions to / management of hydrology and routingAgnes.Ducharne@upmc.fr
Ghattas JosefineIPSLCode maintancencejosefine.ghattas@ipsl.jussieu.fr
Krinner GerhardLGGEContributions to high latitudes processesgerhard.krinner@cnrs.fr
Lathière JulietteIPSL/LSCEManagement of coupling with chemistryjuliette.lathiere@lsce.ipsl.fr
Luyssaert SebastiaanIPSL/LSCEIntegration of developments: nitrogen, forest management module / Contributions to the new energy balance scheme / Scientific documentations.luyssaert@vu.nl
Maignan FabienneIPSL/LSCEGlobal simulations (inter-comparisons)
Validation / Optimization remote sensed data
Documentation / Risk analysis
fabienne.maignan@lsce.ipsl.fr
Ottlé CatherineIPSL/LSCEContributions to snow and permafrost developmentscatherine.ottle@lsce.ipsl.fr
Peylin PhilippeIPSL/LSCEProject Management / General contributions
Adjoint model
philippe.peylin@lsce.ipsl.fr
Polcher JanIPSL/LMDContributions to / management of hydrology, routing and energy balancejan.polcher@lmd.jussieu.fr
Viovy NicolasIPSL/LSCEGeneral contributions to Stomate and the DGVM
Nitrogen cycle integration / Forest management module
nicolas.viovy@lsce.ipsl.fr
Vuichard NicolasIPSL/LSCEIntegration of biogeochemical developments
Assessment of impacts
Research: Impact of management of agro- systems
nicolas.vuichard@lsce.ipsl.fr

Other users and developers

NameInstituteMain interestFields of expertise (scientific and technical)Email
Fita Lluís ,Sörensson Anna, Schrapffer Anthony
(with J. Polcher)
Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera
(CIMA) Argentina
River flow, floods, land-surface water bodies-atmosphere interaction in South America-Regional climate modelling
- model development and coupling
- extreme events
- land-atmosphere interaction
lluis.fita@cima.fcen.uba.ar
MacBean NatashaUniversity of Arizona / Indiana University (from August 2018)1. Semi-arid ecosystem C/W/E processes & trends and contribution to IAV of global C budget
2. Testing of eCO2 and WUE changes on LAI and aboveground biomass in comparison to tree rings/satellites (within PalEON project - http://paleonproject.org/)
Carbon cycle, phenology/vegetation trends, CH4, hydrology, land cover and change,  offline simulations, data assimilation, global, regional, semi-arid ecosystems, remote sensing data.  nlmacbean@gmail.com ; nmacbean@iu.edu
Barichivich JonathanUniversidad Austral de ChileParameterisation and a range of applications of ORCHIDEE-CN-CAN in tropical and temperate South America in collaboration with S. Luyssaert and P. PeylinWater and carbon cycling, drought and extreme events, tree rings, satellite recordcampsidium@gmail.com
Valade AudeCREAFInclusion of traits variability in ORCHIDEE-CN-CAN for application to response of forests to droughts.
Project: MSC-fellowship M-TRAITS
Forest management, Carbon cycle, hydraulic traitsa.valade@creaf.uab.cat
Yue ChaoLSCE, NWAFU1. Historical and future land-use change and its contribution to global carbon budget;
2. Fires in the earth system and its feed back to vegetation and climate
3. Vegetation dynamics focusing on semi-arid regions of China.
4. Coupling vegetation models to soil erosion models.
5. Carbon and Hydrological impacts on semi-arid regions.
Land use change; fires and other disturbances, vegetation dynamics, forest management.chaoyuejoy@gmail.com chao.yue@lsce.ipsl.fr
Jeong JinaVU AmsterdamUsing tree-ring widths and their isotopic composition to optimize the global land surface model ORCHIDEE and LMDz
Project: VERIFY, PhD-studies
Carbon allocation, tree growth, 13C isotopic discrimination, ORCHIDEE-CN-CANj.jeong@vu.nl
Lansøb Anne SofieLSCEEffects of litter raking on present day C-sink in European forests
Project: DESIRE
Carbon cycle, Forest management, ORCHIDEE-CN-CANanne-sofie.lanso@lsce.ipsl.fr
Resovsky AlexLSCEEvaluation of ORCHIDEE-CN-CAN against combined fertilization and management trials in Sweden
Project: DESIRE
ORCHIDEE-CN-CANaresovsk@gmail.com
Marie GuillaumeVU AmsterdamEffects of bark beetle infestation on the European carbon sink
Project: AAA (Amsterdam Academic Alliance)
Forest management, Carbon cycle, ORCHIDEE-CN-CANg.h.marie@vu.nl
Chen Yi-YingAcademia Sinicia, TaiwanEffects of typhoons on c-budget, surface, boundary layer climate, and regional land cover changes ORCHIDEE-CN-CANyiyingchen@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Janssen ThomasVU AmsterdamDifferential effects on leaves, trees and tropical forests under seasonal, episodic and multi-seasonal drought
Project: PhD-studies
Ecophysiological responses to droughts, ORCHIDEE-CN-CANt.a.j.janssen@vu.nl
Goll DanielLSCENutrients (N,P) cycles and their interactions with cycles of carbon and water, weathering,
Project IMBALANCE-P (hired by), proposals in prep and under review
Project: IMBALANCE-P
Terrestrial biogeochemical cycles, model development (ORCHIDEE, JSBACH),dsgoll123@gmail.com
https://dsgoll.wordpress.com/
Guimberteau MatthieuLSCEHydrology and routing: improve, evaluate, sensitivity tests
Projects: - Main (hired by): IMBALANCE-P
- Collaboration: CHINA-TREND-STREAM
Land surface hydrology, river routing scheme, atmospheric forcings.
Model codes: MICT, TRUNK, CNP
matthieu.guimberteau@lsce.ipsl.fr
https://sites.google.com/view/matthieuguimberteau/accueil
Bacour CédricNOVELTISOngoing & forthcoming projects:
-Data assimilation for improving ORCHIDEE parameterization (in situ flux measurements, atm. CO2, remote sensing products of vegetation photosynthetic capacity & activity...)
- Modelling of canopy fluorescence (Sun Induced Fluorescence - SIF)
- Fluorescence
- Radiative transfer
- Data assimilation
- Remote sensing
cedric.bacour@noveltis.fr
Qiu ChunjingLSCEModeling of peatlands hydrology, peatlands C decomposition and accumulation, peatlands area extentsORCHIDEE-MICT
Northern peatlands C and hydrology
chunjing.qiu@lsce.ipsl.fr
Bowring SimonLSCEDOC production, transport, transformation in permafrost systems from plants to soils to the hydrosystem; new sub-branch of ORCHIDEE-MICT.High latitudes; terrestrial and marine ecology.
ORCHIDEE-MICT/ORCHIDEE-SOM/-LEAK
simon.bowring@lsce.ipsl.fr
simon_bowring@hotmail.com
Verbeke ThomasMETISEcophysiological and physical processes modelling involved in Biosphere/Atmosphere interactions.  Sub-branch ORCHIDEE-GW. Tropospheric ozone impact on vegetation. Water-Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum. Impact of groundwater level evolution on near-surface climate. Code development. thomas.verbeke@upmc.fr
Chang JinfengLSCECarbon-Nitrogen-Phosphorus cycles of grassland, and its response to climate and management change.
Project: hired by IMBALANCE-P
Grassland management, Carbon-nutrient interactionsjinfengchang@gmail.com
Naudts KimMPI-M LESEffect of species interactions on drought responseForest management, carbon cycle, drought response (hydraulic architecture), plant physiologykim.naudts@mpimet.mpg.de
Zhou XudongLMDHuman processes in ORCHIDEE’s water cycleThe high resolution is the main ingredient here.jan.polcher@lmd.jussieu.fr
Raoult Nina LSCE-Data assimilation with ORC, currently focusing on soil moisture and will link to the carbon cycle.
-Helping to develop the tangent linear of the model
Data assimilation (variational mainly - adjoints), carbon cyclenina.raoult@lsce.ipsl.fr
Li WeiLSCEBioenergy crop modeling in MICTBioenergy crops; Land use changewei.li@lsce.ipsl.fr
Peaucelle MarcLSCE-CREAFResource use coordination (water/Co2/light/nutrients) based on ecological principles (optimality);
Representation of functional traits;
Acclimation ;
Phenology.
Project: Imbalance-P
Functional ecology;
Phenology;
Forest management;
Plant physiology;
marc.peaucelle@lsce.ipsl.fr
m.peaucelle@creaf.uab.cat
Petrus KarineLSCE-Development of ORCHIDEE-MEB
and ORCHIDEE-LAK
-Implementation of a multi-bilan energy in ORCHIDEE: ORCHIDEE-MEB
-Implementation of a lake model in ORCHIDEE: ORCHIDEE-LAK
karinepetrus3@gmail.com
Bastrikov VladislavLSCE- data assimilation with ORCHIDEE
- technical support (data assimilation system, outputs visualization system, land cover maps production, forcings testing, reference simulations performance)
- albedo optimization
Data scientist, scientific software developervladislav.bastrikov@lsce.ipsl.fr
Haslehner MylèneLSCE-Working on the joint analysis of carbonylsulfide (COS) and CO2
-Helping to develop the tangent linear
-Later goal: Data assimilation with ORCHIDEE
Data assimilation,
Carbon cycle
mylene.haslehner@lsce.ipsl.fr
Joetzjer EmilieLSCE-EDB -working on the Amazon forest response to drought (including tree mortality) in ORCHIDEE-CAN Water and carbon cycling, drought and extreme eventsemilie.joetzjer@gmail.com
Combe MarieCAVElab, Ghent University- application of ORCHIDEE-CNP over the Congo Basin
- sensitivity of the model to total atmospheric deposition of N and P
NB: I was not hired on the IMBALANCE-P project but and now participating to the project meetings
Carbon cycling and vegetation drought response in - croplands
- tropical forests.
Now starting to know more about N and P cycling too
marie.combe@ugent.be or marie.combe@gmail.com
Bruni ElisaLSCE-Investigate interactions between terrestrial vegetation and atmospheric deposition
-Climate forcing impacts on N:P ratio increasing trends in European forests
biosphere -atmosphere interactions
Data analysis
elisa.bruni@agroparistech.fr
Abramoff RoseLSCEA flexible, data-driven framework to predict soil responses to land-use and climate changeSoil biogeochemistryrzabramoff@lbl.gov
Chen XiuzhiLSCEPhenology of tropical evergreen forests
Projects: CLIMAX, ECOPROPHET
phenologyxiuzhi.chen@lsce.ipsl.fr
Alaoui OmarLSCECrop modeling in EuropeCrop modelomar.alaoui@lsce.ipsl.fr
Peng ShushiPKUCH4 in wetlands / attributionCH4 cycle / biosphere -atmosphere interactions
-Data analysis
speng@pku.edu.cn
Wang XuhuiLSCECrop models global development and applications / crop rotations cropsXuhui.Wang@lsce.ipsl.fr
Yuan ZhangLSCE LMDDiffuse light effects / aerosols effects on vegetation-atmosphere interactionsbiosphere -atmosphere interactionsYuan.Zhang@lmd.jussieu.fr
Zun (Vincent) YinLSCEIrrigation and water balance in ChinaLand surface hydrologyvyin@lsce.ipsl.fr
Weizhe (Jeremy) ChenLSCEExtreme events in China / DGVMDGVMwzchen@cug.edu.cn
Céline Gommet ULB LSCEDOC in European riversDOC cycleceline.gommet@ulb.ac.be
Ronny LauerwaldULBRiver carbon and nutrient transportRiver loop of biogeochemical cyclesR.Lauerwald@exeter.ac.uk
Dan ZhuLSCEHigh latitudes / large mammalsbiosphere -atmosphere interactionsdan.zhu@lsce.ipsl.fr
Victoria NaipalLSCEErosion (with ORCHIDEE emulator)Erosionvictoria.naipal@lsce.ipsl.fr
Fabio Cresto AlenaLSCEModelling forest succession and interspecies competition in the tropical forest using ORCHIDEE-CANForest biogeochemistry (ORCHIDEE-CAN), peatlands and methane emissionsfabio.cresto-aleina@lsce.ipsl.fr
Haicheng ZhangLSCESOC decomposition - optimality theorySOChaicheng.zhang@lsce.ipsl.fr
Marko KvavikINRACrop limitations by Pcropmarko.kvakic@inra.fr
Yuanyuan HuangLSCEMatrix based traceability frameworkModel calibrationyuanyuan.huang@lsce.ipsl.fr
Yan SunLSCEPhosphorus emerging limitations P biogeochemistryyan.sun@lsce.ipsl.fr
Fabio BerzhaghiLSCEHerbivores (not started with ORCHIDEE yet)Herbivoresfabio.berzaghi@lsce.ipsl.fr
Ye HuangLSCEHeating processSOCye.huang@lsce.ipsl.fr
Narayanappa DevarajuLSCEVegetation atmosphere coupling- quantification (ORCHIDEE_trunk)
LMDZ-ORCHIDEE-MICT coupling Related to IMBALANCE-P project
Land atmosphere interactiondevaraju.narayanappa@lsce.ipsl.fr
Delphine TardifIPGPInteraction vegetation - climat - paléogéographie - paramètres orbitaux - pCO2 au Cénozoique (utilisation de IPSLCM5A2).
Végétation dynamique et semi dynamique
tardif@ipgp.fr
Albert Jornet PuigLSCETechnical part of Orchidee MICT Software Engineer
HPC,Debugging, Parallelization
albert.jornet-puig@lsce.ipsl.fr
Salmon ElodieLSCE / LPC2EMethane emissions from peatland in high latitude region
ORCHIDEE-MICT
Northern peatlands, C cycle in high latitude, green house gases emssions.
elodie.salmon@lsce.ipsl.fr

About the ORCHIDEE project team

The Orchidee project was established across several laboratories and it is dedicated to development of the global Land Surface Model (LSM) ORCHIDEE and its use for a wide range of applications from land surface processes to climate studies. The different steps of the ORCHIDEE model/project genesis are summarized in the figure below.

The genesis of ORCHIDEE

During the 1980s, the development at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) of a global General Circulation Model (GCM) stimulated the development of a specific land surface model to calculate the energy and water balance of terrestrial ecosystems (Laval et al., 1981). In the early 1990s, the model was substantially refined with a description of the earth surface categorized into several biomes called PFTs (Plant Functional Types) which led to a version, named SECHIBA (Ducoudré et al., 1993). In the late 1990s and in the early 2000s, the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) ORCHIDEE (Krinner et al., 2005) was created, based on the coupling of SECHIBA with i) a carbon module, STOMATE describing the flow of carbon within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and ii) a dynamic vegetation module, inherited from the LPJ model, describing the evolution of natural vegetation with climate. Such effort was conducted between the LMD and LSCE laboratories.

Figure: History of the ORCHIDEE model development and of the project team development.
about the ORCHIDEE project team

A team to follow and coordinate the model developements

After the mid 2000s, there has been an exponential increase in the number of users and developers in several laboratories: within IPSL (LSCE, LMD, LOCEAN), outside IPSL (SISYPHE in Paris and LGGE in Grenoble) and internationally (PKU university in China, UCLM Toledo in Spain, University of Antwerp (UA) and UGhent university in Belgium). The increase of users and associated projects was accompanied by a large number of new developments. In this context, the need to merge the new model “branches” into a common version became crucial especially to address integrated scientific questions, but it also became highly challenging. The main ORCHIDEE developers/users have thus decided to reinforce the previous organisation (carried by the IPSL) and to operate as a more structured project across laboratories. This process that started at LSCE was rapidly enlarged to the IPSL and few other national and international laboratories (listed above) with the objectives to formalize communication, developments, planning and decision making around the model. The reorganisation into a new project structure has been adapted to the size and ambitions of the group. This web site summarize the foundation of this recent organization.