The values of soil parameters changes after refactoring Startinit

[Crystal-szj]

Hi @SarahAlidoost @yijian
I found that the refactoring StartInit causes some changes in soil properties parameters. I used the Plumber2 data AR-SLu site to do a test run, and prove that there are some changes due to refactoring as I mentioned here.

Although these changes occasionally didn't affect the results of AR-SLu due to the different soil depth settings (variables initND1, initND2, ... initND6), it did change the result in my case.

I put my case here for your information. In my case, the Tot_depth = 100, the value of initNDs are initND1 = 5, initND2 = 10, initND3 = 20, initND4 = 40, initND5 = 60, initND6 = 80. The number of soil layers is 29.

There are two changes I found for now:

1. The value and length of IS changed: the length of IS changes from 29 (before refactor) to 30 (after refactor)
   
   In this figure, the left part is the results of the old version (before refactoring), and the right part is the results after reforcing.

2. The IS is the soil type index which is used to define the soil parameters for soil layers. The changes of IS cause different results for soil hydraulics parameters such as Ks, Theta_s, Theta_r. (The value of Theta_f should be changed also, since it didn't save in the old version, so I didn't show it in the following figure.)
   
   In this figure, the first column is the no. of the soil layer, and the 2-4 columns in the left (before refactoring) and right (after refactoring) parts are the value of Ks, theta_s and theta_r, respectively.

The difference of soil hydraulic parameters changes the simulated soil moisture, and energy and carbon fluxes. In order to make the results of the two versions consistent, the soil hydraulic parameters in the two versions must be the same.
Please let me know if you need more information.

[SarahAlidoost]

@Crystal-szj the issue with different sizes of IS is the value of the index in SoilVariables.IS(i), here and here. the index i should be j. Then, the size of SoilVariables.IS is 54. Can you please replace i with j and test if other results have also been fixed?

[Crystal-szj]

@Crystal-szj the issue with different sizes of IS is the value of the index in SoilVariables.IS(i), here and here. the index i should be j. Then, the size of SoilVariables.IS is 54. Can you please replace i with j and test if other results have also been fixed?

@SarahAlidoost Thanks for your reply. Do you mean I replace

STEMMUS_SCOPE/src/+init/soilHeteroSubroutine.m

Line 55 in dd4764b

J = SoilVariables.IS(i);

to

J = SoilVariables.IS(j)?

[SarahAlidoost]

@Crystal-szj the issue with different sizes of IS is the value of the index in SoilVariables.IS(i), here and here. the index i should be j. Then, the size of SoilVariables.IS is 54. Can you please replace i with j and test if other results have also been fixed?

@SarahAlidoost Thanks for your reply. Do you mean I replace

STEMMUS_SCOPE/src/+init/soilHeteroSubroutine.m

Line 55 in dd4764b

J = SoilVariables.IS(i);

to

J = SoilVariables.IS(j)?

yes and also this one:
SoilVariables.IS(i) = indexOfSoilType;

to
SoilVariables.IS(j) = indexOfSoilType;

[Crystal-szj]

@Crystal-szj the issue with different sizes of IS is the value of the index in SoilVariables.IS(i), here and here. the index i should be j. Then, the size of SoilVariables.IS is 54. Can you please replace i with j and test if other results have also been fixed?

@SarahAlidoost Thanks for your reply. Do you mean I replace

STEMMUS_SCOPE/src/+init/soilHeteroSubroutine.m

Line 55 in dd4764b

J = SoilVariables.IS(i);

to

J = SoilVariables.IS(j)?

yes and also this one: SoilVariables.IS(i) = indexOfSoilType;

to SoilVariables.IS(j) = indexOfSoilType;

Thanks @SarahAlidoost, It works. The soil parameters are the same now. Although the energy and carbon fluxes are not the same yet, I'll update it later if I found the reasons.

[SarahAlidoost]

@Crystal-szj the issue with different sizes of IS is the value of the index in SoilVariables.IS(i), here and here. the index i should be j. Then, the size of SoilVariables.IS is 54. Can you please replace i with j and test if other results have also been fixed?

@SarahAlidoost Thanks for your reply. Do you mean I replace

STEMMUS_SCOPE/src/+init/soilHeteroSubroutine.m

Line 55 in dd4764b

J = SoilVariables.IS(i);

to

J = SoilVariables.IS(j)?

yes and also this one: SoilVariables.IS(i) = indexOfSoilType;
to SoilVariables.IS(j) = indexOfSoilType;

Thanks @SarahAlidoost, It works. The soil parameters are the same now. Although the energy and carbon fluxes are not the same yet, I'll update it later if I found the reasons.

@Crystal-szj great, can you please create a pull request with those two index-related changes and re-generate exe file? and when you find more fixes, you can create another pull request. Small pull requests are easier to review.

[SarahAlidoost]

@Crystal-szj Have you seen the last comment above? can you please fix the indices and submit a pull request? so we can address some parts of this issue.

[Crystal-szj]

Hi, @SarahAlidoost, Thank you for your suggestion. I have created a pull request accordingly #260.