Projects

This page contains links and information related to various ongoing research projects and operations involving ISBA or in which ISBA is participating. It is updated periodically and is not all inclusive. For more information on any of these projects, please contact us.


Research, Projects and Operations
Operational mode: Assimilation of soil moisture and surface variables in ARPEGE (NWP)
Climate research mode: ARPEGE
CO2 model coupling with an Interacive Vegetation option: ISBA-Ags
Hydrological studies: ISBA-MODCOU
Participation in the Project for the Intercomparison of Land-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes (PILPS) Project
Town Energy Budget model (TEB) Land Surface Scheme
MUREX Case study for SVAT model validation
Soil Moisture Assimilation: SMOS
Land Cover parameters from satellite
Coupling with the Operational Avalanche Prediction Model CROCUS: CIRSE (CROCUS-ISBA)
14-year coupled ISBA-MODCOU Simulation for the Rhone basin
Participation in PILPS Phase2e: Arctic Model Intercomparison. The main goal of this project is to explore how Land Surface Schemes are able to simulate the hydroligical cycle of a high-latitude river basin.
Participation in Snowmip (Snow Model Intercomparison Project) The goal of this project is to explore how snow schemes of various levels of complexity are able to simulate snowpack evolution at four contrasting local-scale sites. GICC-Rhone Project: Impact of Climate Change on the Rhone basin Hydrological Cycle
Organization of and participation in the Rhone-AGG (Rhone AGGregation) Project. The main objective of exploring how Land Surface Scheme simulations are impacted when moving from a very fine spatial scale (8 km) up to that of a Global Climate Model (1 degree).
Participation in the MOPEX project
Operational Application of SAFRAN-ISBA-Modcou (SIM)
Meteo-France is using ISBA within the European Land Data Assimilation System (ELDAS) to predict Floods and Droughts
Participation in the Global Soil Wetness (GSWP) Project Phase 2: Atmospheric forcing will be used to drive ISBA at a global scale for 10 years.
Participation in PILPS-C1: Intercomparison of Land Surface Schemes which simulate both the water cycle and CO2 (a document describing the experiment can be obtained from the GLASS site)

* International Land-Surface Scheme Validation and Intercomparison Studies (such as PILPS and GSWP and Rhone-AGG) are a part of GLASS (Global Land Atmosphere System Study)

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Global Soil
Wetness Project Phase 2
Meteo France logo PILPS logo
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