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
  • Tree setup window
  • Grid setup window
  • Model flow window
  • Parameters window
  • Episodic events window
  • Output options window
  • Model menu
  • Help menu
• Trees
  • Allometry
  • Tree data member list
• Behaviors
  • Harvest and disturbance behaviors
  • Light behaviors
  • Growth behaviors
  • Mortality behaviors
  • Substrate behaviors
  • Tree removal behaviors
  • Disperse behaviors
  • Seed predation behaviors
  • Establishment behaviors
  • Planting behaviors
  • Analysis behaviors
• 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
• References
• Glossary

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