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It does look like this comment is wrong, but @thorntonpe (the original author 20 years ago...) doesn't make many mistakes, so pinging him to check if we're missing something.
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@WYPZL @bpbond Thanks for your question - it has provided an opportunity for me to revisit both the BGC4.2 code, and my thesis! The comment about all-sided LAI in canopy_et.c is erroneous - it should say projected LAI. The code itself is correct. This comment is a remnant of some of the original Biome-BGC code, developed with conifers as the primary plant type of interest, at a time when physiological ecologists working with conifers tended to use all-sided LAI for calculations. There is still a conversion between projected and all-sided LAI carried in the code (radtrans.c), but I think the epv->all_lai variable may not be used for anything other than diagnostic output.
@thorntonpe Thank you for your reply! Your answer solved my doubts.
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