         NAME
              initclimate - initialize climate data

         SYNOPSIS
              #include "lpj.h"

              Climate *initclimate(const Cell grid[],const Config *config);

         DESCRIPTION
              Function initializes climate data and opens related files
              specified in the LPJmL configuration.  The arguments of
              initclimate are:

              grid Cell grid array allocated and initialized by newgrid().

              config
                   Pointer to LPJmL configuration data. Must be read by
                   readconfig().

         RETURN VALUE
              Upon successful completion pointer to allocated climate data
              is returned and NULL in case of failure.

         AUTHORS
              Werner von Bloh (Werner.von.Bloh@pik-potsdam.de), Sibyll
              Schaphoff (Sibyll.Schaphoff@pik-potsdam.de), Stefanie Rost
              (Jachner) (Stefanie.Rost@pik-potsdam.de), Marlies
              Gumpenberger (Marlies.Gumpenberger@pik-potsdam.de), Tim
              Beringer (Erbrecht) (Tim.Beringer@pik-potsdam.de), Christoph
              Mueller (Christoph.Mueller@pik-potsdam.de) Jens Heinke
              (Jens.Heinke@pik-potsdam.de), Hester Biemans
              (Hester.Biemans@wur.nl), Kirsten Thonicke
              (Kirsten.Thonicke@pik-potsdam.de), Ursula Heyder
              (Ursula.Heyder@pik-potsdam.de),

         SEE ALSO
              getclimate(3), freeclimate(3), readconfig(3), iterate(3)