Woody crops in CLM

Dear All,

I would like to give an update about the crop developments that Yuanchao Fan and I have been doing in CLM. We have been focusing on perennial woody crop PFTs in CLM5 (oil palm and rubber), but with a view to being applicable to several other crops of similar type. There are numerous woody crop plantations around the globe, some as monocultures such as cocoa, coffee, and coconut palms while others as agroforestry plantations such as jungle rubber plantations (rubber trees with native trees) and coffee plantations with native trees. I would also like to update the key features we have developed in the existing crop phenology scheme (e.g., perennial, evergreen/deciduous, woody, monthly harvests, annual harvest). We have been focusing on developing/extending the default crop phenology subroutine and keeping it as generic as possible.

Currently, I am calibrating these two crop PFTs. We plan to submit a merge request to NCAR's CTSM trunk soon.

Best,
Ashehad