barren lands should always have 0 value

[teixeirak]

Barren lands, by definition, have zero value from vegetation. Currently, I get this:

The fix is easy: simply add lines making biophysical_net, latent, and sw_radiative_forcing all =0 for barren vegetation types.
I believe the fix needs to go in this code.

[teixeirak]

More fundamentally, the figure below shows non-zero values for net biophysics in the Sahara.

@ValentineHerr, would it be easy for you to edit the map files (.nc) to assign zero values to all barren lands?

[caseyhofford]

OK, I think I have made this work. http://ghgvc.caseyhofford.com/ try out a few locations and let me know if the results look right. @teixeirak

[teixeirak]

Looks good! Thank you!

[teixeirak]

@caseyhofford, I just tried a barren site in the Sahara (barren was indicated as the most likely cover type) and got non-zero biophysical values. I'm not sure what happened, as I thought this was fixed.

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[teixeirak]

@ValentineHerr, would it be easy for you to edit the map files (.nc) to assign zero values to all barren lands?

This is done.

[ValentineHerr]

Wait I think I went the easy way... You want the actual .nc files to be edited in the calculator, correct? I just visually put white on the .png maps, haha! I'll try to edit the .nc files now or on Monday. All underlying maps that need to be changed are in the "Box", right?

[teixeirak]

What you did is perfect (for the map figure). (I didn't read my earlier comment about editing the .nc file carefully--sorry.) I think the optimal is actually just to set those to zero in the script, not change the .nc file. I think @caseyhofford had done this, but for some reason the problem re-appeared in the calculator.

[ValentineHerr]

ok