MOD-LSP: MODIS-Based Parameters for Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) Model over the Continental US, Mexico, and Southern Canada
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Abstract
The MOD-LSP project contains MODIS-based land and surface (soil and vegetation) parameters for the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model (Liang et al., 1994), release 5.0 and later (Hamman et al., 2018). The MOD-LSP spatial domain covers the continental United States, Mexico, and southern Canada; the associated domain files can be found in the PITRI archive (Bohn et al. 2018). This spatial domain and 0.625° (6 km) grid resolution are compatible with the gridded daily meteorological forcings of Livneh et al. (2015) ("L2015" hereafter) (http://ciresgroups.colorado.edu/livneh/data/daily-observational-hydrometeorology-data-set-north-american-extent), which can be disaggregated to hourly time step via the MetSim tool (Bennett et al. 2018) using the aforementioned PITRI domain files (Bohn et al. 2018). These parameters have two main purposes: (1) to improve upon previous widely-used parameters over the region (e.g., L2015) with updated, higher-resolution land cover maps and spatially explicit observations of surface properties; and (2) to expand from a single parameter set corresponding to one point in time to a series of parameter sets that account for temporal variability at seasonal to decadal scales. A detailed description of methods, the data sources and purposes of different VIC parameter sets within MOD-LSP, and how to use them with VIC, can be found in the MOD-LSP User Guide.pdf, included here. The scripts that were used to create the MOD-LSP parameters are archived on Zenodo and GitHub (Bohn 2019). If you wish to present or publish results that use these parameter sets, please cite the following paper: Bohn, T. J., and E. R. Vivoni, 2019b: MOD-LSP, MODIS-based land surface properties for assessing land cover variability and change over North America. Sci. Data, 6, 144, doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0150-2. In addition, if you use the domain files associated with the PITRI precipitation disaggregation to accompany the MOD-LSP parameter files in VIC simulations, please cite the following paper: Bohn, T. J., K. M. Whitney, G. Mascaro, and E. R. Vivoni, 2019: A deterministic approach for approximating the diurnal cycle of precipitation for use in large-scale hydrological modeling. J. Hydrometeorol., 20, 297–317, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-18-0203.1. Contents: MOD-LSP User Guide v1.0.pdf - Explains how parameters were generated and how to set up the files for input in VIC simulations. global_param.template - Template for global_parameter file, which lists the locations of the other input files and sets various simulation options. The template contains placeholders for some filenames and simulation options, which must be replaced with real values by the user. params.$DOMAIN.L2015.nc - VIC-5 compliant NetCDF parameter files with values taken from the L2015 project for domain $DOMAIN (which is one of "CONUS_MX" or "USMX"). params.CONUS_MX.MOD_IGBP.mode.2000_2016.nc - VIC-5 compliant NetCDF parameter file over the CONUS_MX domain, with land cover fractions taken from the MODIS MCD12Q1.006 product and an annual cycle of land surface properties (LAI, Fcanopy, albedo) derived from the climatological mean of MODIS observations over the period 2000-2016. params.USMX.NLCD_INEGI.$LCID.2000_2016.nc - VIC-5 compliant NetCDF parameter file over the USMX domain, with land cover fractions taken from the NLCD_INEGI dataset, from year = $LCID, and an annual cycle of land surface properties (LAI, Fcanopy, albedo) derived from the climatological mean of MODIS observations over the period 2000-2016. params.USMX.NLCD_INEGI.$LCID.$YYYY_$YYYY.nc - VIC-5 compliant NetCDF parameter file over the USMX domain, with land cover fractions taken from the NLCD_INEGI dataset, from year = $LCID, and an annual cycle of land surface properties (LAI, Fcanopy, albedo) derived from the MODIS observations from a single year $YYYY. veg_hist.$DOMAIN.$LCTYPE.$LCID.2000_2016.nc - timeseries of monthly land surface properties (LAI, Fcanopy, albedo) from MODIS observations spanning years 2000-2016, over domain $DOMAIN, aggregated over land cover classification $LCTYPE from year $LCID.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".