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Plant

growth

submodel

Water

budget

submodel

MODEL

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

- Initial living and dead aerial biomass

- Initial living root biomass

- Initial soil water content

Daily meteorological data

- Precipitation

- Solar radiation

- Air temperature

- Relative humidity

- Wind speed

Biomass

- living and dead aerial biomass

- living root biomass

- soil water content

Canopy structural parameters :

- green and dead LAI

- percent cover by green and dead vegetation

- daily evapo-

transpiration

- canopy stomatal

resistance

- Root distribution

- Soil particle-size distribution

- Maximum photosynthetic

efficiency

DRIVING VARIABLES AND INPUT PARAMETERS

DRIVING VARIABLES

SITE SPECIFIC PARAMETERS

INITIAL CONDITIONS

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