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Calibrating yield for about 2000-2024 while minimizing failed seasons:

  • Corn: Don't change anything. It's high for 2000-2010 but looks good after that.
  • Cotton: Increase max growing season length from 160 days to 270 days. Causes overwintering, so this will probably need to be reverted! But useful for now to explore how much an extreme change could help with the high failure rate.
  • Rice: Revert CLM5 arooti changes.
  • Soybean: It's low for this period but nothing I tried helped much. Removing mxmat helped a bit, so increase max growing season length from 150 days to 180 days.
  • Sugarcane: Increase max growing season length from 300 days to 360.
  • Wheat: Revert CLM5 arooti changes. Need a pretty big drop in yields and this didn't do it in my test, but that was without grainfill triggering max LAI and thus much more failed crop area. (There were no crop phase parameter changes in CLM5.)

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Contributors other than yourself, if any: None

CTSM Issues Fixed: None

Are answers expected to change (and if so in what way)? Yes, for any run with prognostic crops.

Any User Interface Changes (namelist or namelist defaults changes)?

  • New paramfile for clm6_0.

Does this create a need to change or add documentation? Did you do so? Yes; no.

  • Update documentation where needed with new parameters.

Testing performed, if any: Scientific testing of the same changes on top of master's paramfile looked good.

  • aux_clm
  • Anything else?

Calibrating yield for about 2000-2024 while minimizing failed seasons:
- Corn: Don't change anything. It's high for 2000-2010 but looks good after that.
- Cotton: Increase max growing season length from 160 days to 270 days. Causes overwintering, so this will probably need to be reverted! But useful for now to explore how much an extreme change could help with the high failure rate.
- Rice: Revert CLM5 `arooti` changes.
- Soybean: It's low for this period but nothing I tried helped much. Removing mxmat helped a bit, so increase max growing season length from 150 days to 180 days.
- Sugarcane: Increase max growing season length from 300 days to 360.
- Wheat: Revert CLM5 arooti changes.  Need a pretty big drop in yields and this didn't do it in my test, but that was without grainfill triggering max LAI and thus much more failed crop area. (There were no crop phase parameter changes in CLM5.)
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@samsrabin samsrabin added science Enhancement to or bug impacting science non-bfb Changes answers (incl. adding tests) docs:update Significant update or fix needed to existing documentation docs-loc:tech-note Relates to Technical Note (science) labels Oct 28, 2025
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wwieder commented Oct 28, 2025

I'm pretty agnostic to when and where this gets brought in. Here are a few thoughts:

  • ✅ Given that default parameter files have diverged from what's on the alpha-5.4 branch, it seems nice to sync these back up.
  • ✅ Since this is ready to go, I'd suggest we bring it in (to master, alpha-5.4, or both)
  • ❓ This will introduce inconsistencies with initial conditions we're providing with the 5.4.0 tag.
    • ✅ We can either live with this (we'll also change answers with dust, fire and PPE changes), or
    • ❌ preserve answers until we make the 5.4 minor version release before bringing this in?

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Talked to @ekluzek. I will bring in the alpha5.4 parameter file plus my changes onto master directly.

@ekluzek ekluzek moved this from Status not assigned to In progress in CTSM: realease-ctsm5.4 minor version update (CMIP7 datasets) Oct 31, 2025
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Replaced by #3618.

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