Contents

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Organisation of this manual
  • 1.2 Reporting bugs
  • 1.3 Summary of features
  • 1.4 Acknowledgements
• 2. Basic usage
  • 2.1 Getting started
    • 2.1.1 Installing the software
    • 2.1.2 Preparing the namelists file
    • 2.1.3 Running the software
  • 2.2 Leading namelists and variables
    • 2.2.1 NAMFPC
    • 2.2.2 NAMFPD
    • 2.2.3 NAMFPG
  • 2.3 Output files handling
    • 2.3.1 File structure
    • 2.3.2 File name
    • 2.3.3 File content
• 3. Advanced usage
  • 3.1 Scientific options
    • 3.1.1 Spectral fit on dynamic fields
    • 3.1.2 Tuning of the spectral filters
    • 3.1.3 Climatology
    • 3.1.4 Optional pronostic fields
    • 3.1.5 Adiabatic post-processing
    • 3.1.6 Horizontal interpolations
    • 3.1.7 The problem of lakes and islands
    • 3.1.8 Computation of CAPE
    • 3.1.9 Miscellaneous
  • 3.2 Optimizing the performance
  • 3.3 Output fields conditioning
    • 3.3.1 Horizontal representation of dynamic fields
    • 3.3.2 Encoding data in output file
    • 3.3.3 Customized complexions
  • 3.4 Selective namelists
  • 3.5 Miscellaneous
    • 3.5.1 Customization of names
    • 3.5.2 Traceback
• 4. The family of configurations 927
  • 4.1 What it is
  • 4.2 How it works
  • 4.3 Namelists parameters
  • 4.4 Bogussing
• 5. Expert usage
  • 5.1 Appending fields to a file
  • 5.2 Derivatives on model levels
  • 5.3 3D physical fluxes
  • 5.4 Free-use fields
• 6. Appendixes
  • 6.1 Upper air dynamic fields descriptors
    • 6.1.1 2D dynamic fields descriptors
    • 6.1.2 Surface physical fields descriptors
    • 6.1.3 Cumulated fluxes descriptors
    • 6.1.4 Instantaneous fluxes descriptors
  • 6.2 Example of selection file
  • 6.3 How to make climatology files
  • 6.4 Spectral filters
  • 6.5 Optimization of the performance
    • 6.5.1 Communications
    • 6.5.2 Segmentation
• Index