Crop postprocessing often trips people up. We should provide instructions in the User's Guide and link to those instructions in the Tech Note.
Definitely include:
- If you care about crops, you will probably want to save outputs at the PFT level. Provide instructions for doing this, including why you might want to do this on a separate history tape from other outputs (PFT-level outputs are large and hard to work with).
- Some crop-related history variables include a per-sowing (mxsowings) or per-harvest (mxharvests) dimension, which can be non-intuitive. See this forum post for an example. The purpose and utility of these should be explained.
Maybe include in first go at this issue:
- Provide a script to calculate annual area, production, and yield. Work with regular, per-harvest, and per-year values. Optionally combine irrigated+rainfed, tropical+temperate, spring+winter; if doing this, explain which CFTs got combined into which crops. Optionally provide paramfile to add, in a global comment attribute, which non-simulated crops correspond to which simulated ones. This script would need to be tested for no errors in aux_clm.
Do this eventually (file as separate issue(s)):
- Provide a script to align time series according to planting year. Something to consider: For a crop planted in one year and harvested the next, which year's area should be used?
- Explain about the crop CUPiD notebook.
Crop postprocessing often trips people up. We should provide instructions in the User's Guide and link to those instructions in the Tech Note.
Definitely include:
Maybe include in first go at this issue:
Do this eventually (file as separate issue(s)):