FATES

FATES (Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator) is a numerical terrestrial ecosystem model hat can be utilized as a component with various host land models such as ELM. It is incorporated as an external module, the development of which is primarily supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, through the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment - Tropics (NGEE-T) project.

The FATES code is hosted online through a github repository at https://github.com/NGEET/fates.

Technical Document

The full FATES documentation detailing the scientific underpinnings of the model can be found in the FATES Technical Document hosted on ReadTheDocs.

User's and Developer's Guide

The FATES team also provides a User's guide and a Developer's guide also hosted on ReadTheDocs. Both guides and the technical documentation can be reached from the top level User's Guide