FAQ
This page aims at overcoming eventual difficulties that potential ROMC participants may experience.
RAMI On-line Model Checker
This site is managed by Nature Conservation and Observations unit (JRC.D.6) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Directorate D - Sustainable Resources of the European Commission (EC).
The RAMI On-line Model Checker (ROMC) allows to evaluate the performance of any user canopy reflectance model against a set of reference data obtained from 3-D radiation transfer models identified during the 3rd phase of the RAdiation transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) exercise.
Each registered user can exploit the functionalities of the website to either debug or validate its model against several test cases already featured in the RAMI experiments.
Once the user-model is uploaded (please, consult the Formats section for a full description of the data format and naming convention to use) the website offers a full set of graphical displays for documenting the model similarities and differences with respect to the ROMC reference.
It is recommended to use only those ROMC results that were obtained in validate mode when quantifying the performance of a model in the refereed scientific literature. Reference to the ROMC must be provided using the template given in the corresponding FAQ's. Please note that, although we do the utmost to ensure both the quality of the reference data, and the correct working of the software that automatically generates the ROMC results graphs, it nevertheless remains the sole responsibility of the author of any publication featuring ROMC results to familiarize him/herself with the ROMC data usage policy (see disclaimer) and to verify the reliability of the generated results with the ROMC coordinators prior to any publication.
