SORTIE-ND documentation

• About SORTIE-ND
• What's New
• Getting started with SORTIE-ND
  • New users
  • Users of previous versions
• Run setup and progression
• The SORTIE-ND plot
• Using SORTIE-ND
  • Creating a parameter file
  • Parameter file additions
  • Output
  • Batching
• The SORTIE-ND menu
  • File menu
    • Batch setup window
  • Edit menu
    • Parameters window
    • Harvest interface window
    • Schedule storms window
    • Tree population - set allometry functions window
    • Tree population - edit species list window
    • Tree population - edit initial density size classes window
    • Tree population - manage tree maps window
    • Grid setup window
      • Grid value edit window
    • Model flow window
      • Current run behaviors window
      • Tree behavior edit window
      • Tree assignments window
    • Episodic events window
      • Edit harvest window
      • Edit mortality episode window
      • Edit planting window
      • Edit harvest interface window
      • Edit diameter at 10 cm window
    • Output options window
      • Setup detailed output file window
        • Setup tree save options window
        • Setup grid save options window
      • Summary output file setup window
        • Edit subplots window
  • Model menu
  • Help menu
• Trees
  • Allometry
  • Tree data member list
• Behaviors
  • State change behaviors
  • Harvest and disturbance behaviors
  • Light behaviors
  • Growth behaviors
  • Mortality behaviors
  • Substrate behaviors
  • Epiphytic establishment behaviors
  • Mortality utility behaviors
  • Snag dynamics behaviors
  • Disperse behaviors
  • Seed predation behaviors
  • Establishment behaviors
  • Planting behaviors
  • Analysis behaviors
  • Unique behavior reference strings
• Grids
  • Individual grid documentation
• Files in SORTIE-ND
  • Parameter files
  • Detailed output files
  • Summary output files
  • Detailed output map files
  • Tab-delimited tree map files
  • Files from previous versions of SORTIE
• Data visualization
  • Output chart types
• Math in SORTIE-ND
• References
• Glossary
• SORTIE-ND License
• GPL License

Developer Documentation

• Installing the Code
• Software structure
  • Message passing
  • Model I/O
  • Parameter files (and how to hack them)
  • How a run progresses
  • Design philosophy
  • The SORTIE-ND user installation
• The C++ model core
  • Model architecture
  • Exception handling
  • DOS interface
  • Variable naming conventions
  • Behavior versioning
  • C++ code documentation
• The Java GUI
  • Architecture and key classes
  • Exception handling
  • Windows
  • SORTIE-ND help system
  • Java code documentation
• How to write a new behavior
  • Part 1: Design
  • Part 2: Preparing to code
  • Part 3: Writing code and testing
  • Part 4: GUI and user documentation
• Porting to another operating system
• Third-party plug-ins
• Special topic: How light calculations are performed