The Land Surface Process Model (LSPM) version 2006. The complete manual

The land surface is a critical component for the study of the weather and climate through its partitioning of solar radiation into sensible and latent heat fluxes, its redistribution of precipitation into evaporation, soil storage, groundwater recharge, or runoff, and its regulation of biogeochemical cycles with processes such as photosynthesis and respiration. These water and energy exchanges between the atmosphere and the land surface are known to significantly impact weather and climate, which has motivated significant advancement in the understanding of the physical processes that govern these exchanges. This has resulted in the development of the Land Surface Process Model (LSPM). In the sections 1-7, the physics of the model will be outlined. In the section 8, the computational structure of LSPM will be described, as well as the instructions necessary to install and run the model, and the pre- and post-processing operations.