MONICA is a dynamic, process-based simulation model which describes transport and bio-chemical turn-over of carbon, nitrogen and water in agro-ecosystems. On daily time steps the most important processes in soil and plant are modelled mechanistically. They are linked in such way that feed-back relations of the single processes are reproduced as close to nature as possible. MONICA works one dimensional and represents a space of 1 m² surface area and 2 m depth.
The acronym MONICA is derived from „MOdel of Nitrogen and Carbon dynamics in Agro-ecosystems”.
Builds can be downloaded from the repository's releases page.
In order to build MONICA one needs to have at least to clone the repositories zalf-rpm/util (non core MONICA code), zalf-rpm/capnproto_schemas and zalf-rpm/monica-parameters (parameters repository for MONICA) in addition to monica itself.
After cloning the repositories you should have this file structure:
monica-master
|_ monica
|_ util
|_ monica-parameters
|_ capnproto_schemas
Also install Python to run the minimal examples.
In order to run the examples, copy the file db-connections.ini.template and rename it to db-connections.ini. This file is used to configure access to SQLite and MySQL databases (access to the later is not being compiled into MONICA by default).
see https://github.com/zalf-rpm/monica/wiki/How-to-compile-MONICA-(Windows) for installation and build instructions
monica-run will execute a local MONICA with the example Hohenfinow2 in the installer directory and output its result into installer\Hohenfinow2\out.csv.
cd monica/_cmake_win64
./monica run installer/Hohenfinow2/sim.json > out.csv
see https://github.com/zalf-rpm/monica/wiki/How-to-compile-MONICA-(Linux) for installation and build instructions.
Run the standard example and write the results into out.csv Shell:
cd monica/_cmake_linux
./monica run installer/Hohenfinow2/sim.json > out.csv
MONICA consists right now of a number of tools/parts. Most of them can be called at the commandline like
monica command1 [command2] parameter1 parameter2 ....
eg. to run MONICA locally with the standard Hohenfinow2 example under Windows using the standard installer, go to the c:\users\USER_PROFILE\MONICA directory and execute in a Commandshell
monica run Examples/Hohenfinow2/sim.json > out.csv
Alternatively one can type always the full name of the tool, which are named monica-run, monica-zmq-run, monica-zmq-server etc, monica is just a proxy program calling the actual tools. There are the following tools/versions of MONICA available.
- libmonica ... the libmonica.dll/.so with the MONICA core functionality
- monica ... the proxy tool, to call the other tools
- monica-run ... the standalone MONICA commandline model (using libmonica)
- monica-zmq-control ... a tool to run on the server and accepting ZeroMQ messages to spawn MONICA servers/ZMQ Proxies etc
- monica-zmq-control-send ... a client side tool to send ZMQ messages to the server
- monica-zmq-proxy ... a tool to run serverside and forward/distribute jobs (ZMQ job messages) to MONICA workers (servers)
- monica-zmq-run ... the ZMQ client to monica-zmq-server/the equivalent to monica-run, but sends work to a monica-zmq-server
- monica-zmq-server ... a MONICA server accepting ZeroMQ messages and process them, usually to be used in connection with ZMQ proxy/proxies and a cloud of worker monica-zmq-servers
On Windows an NSIS installer can be created. The installer will by default install all programm code into c:\program files and the parameters, databases and examples into c:\users\USER_PROFILE\MONICA. The MONICA install directory will be added to the PATH environment variable as well as add it to the PYTHONPATH environment variable. So after a normal installation MONICA should be useable from the commandline.
Contributions are welcome.
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MONICA is model of the Institue of Landscape Systems Analysis at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF).
Authors
- Claas Nendel (claas (dot) nendel [at] zalf (dot) de)
- Xenia Specka (xenia (dot) specka [at] zalf (dot) de)
- Michael Berg-Mohnicke (michael (dot) berg [at] zalf (dot) de)
- Tommaso Stella (tommaso (dot) stella [at] zalf (dot) de)
Maintainers: Currently maintained by the authors.
Monica is distributed under the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0