Figure: Glocal distribution of vegetation carbon in the year 2000. This plot has been generated by plotlpj -DFROM_RESTART lpjml.conf vegc 2000.

LPJmL is a dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) with managed land use and river routing. It has been successfully parallelized using the message-passing library (MPI). The latest version is 3.4.018:

• Installing and running LPJmL
• Manual pages for LPJmL
• Sample configuration file lpjml.conf

Additional information can be obtained from the LPJ & LPJmL Web Distribution Portal. The river routing part has been parallelized using a library for distributed networks (von Bloh, 2008; von Bloh et al., 2010).

Publications

S. Franck, W. von Bloh, C. Müller, A. Bondeau, B. Sakschewski, 2011. Harvesting the Sun: New estimations of the maximum population of planet Earth. Ecol. Mod. 222(12), 2019-2026.

H. Biemans, I. Haddeland, P. Kabat, F. Ludwig, R. W. A. Hutjes, J. Heinke, W. von Bloh, and D. Gerten, 2010. Impact of reservoirs on river discharge and irrigation water supply during the 20th century. Water Resources Research 47, W03509, doi:10.1029/2009WR008929.

W. von Bloh, S. Rost, D. Gerten, and W. Lucht, 2010. Efficient parallelization of a dynamic global vegetation model with river routing. Environmental Modelling & Software 25, 685-690.

D. Gerten, S. Rost, W. von Bloh, and W. Lucht, 2008. Causes of change in 20th century global river discharge. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L20405.

W. von Bloh, 2008. Sequential and Parallel Implementation of Networks. In: P. beim Graben, C. Zhou, M. Thiel, and J. Kurths (eds.), Lectures in Supercomputational Neuroscience, Dynamics in Complex Brain Networks, Springer, Berlin, 279-318.