Surfex v8_0 was built by developers, so documentation is available by contribution.
As it’s not easy to extract from this sort of documentation a wanted information, for next version, a summary will be done here of the documentation provided by developers.
1. Draft of the schedule for the building of SURFEX V8
This page is devoted to the building of the surfex version 8: A reminder of the general recommendations to mergers /Updated 6 Feb. 2014 Description of the changes /Updated 5 Jun. 2014 Tests with the test database /Updated 5 Jun. 2014 Changes in namelists /Updated 5 Jun. 2014 The draft of the (...)
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NEW_PREP_HIRLAM in PREP_ISBA_SNOW : LSWEMAX : logical switch to set an upper limit on initial snow water equivalent (default : false) XSWEMAX : upper limit of initial snow water equivalent. default : 500 mm
=> to be tested in NAM_ASSIM : NPRINTLEV : verbosity (0, 1, 2 (...)
This section summarizes the test results (from the database, based originally on NEW_PREP). NEW_PREP_HIRLAM
From the database : NO_ECO_TEB_OPT_FILES Emax/=0: 4 The fix in vegetation_update.F90 had a side effect on the update of TEB_garden (with no scientific practical effect). The TEB_garden (...)
Branch NEW_PREP (MOSAYC)
NB: some default values for namelist options changed in V8.
First, see:
http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/surfex-lab/spip.php?article357&var_mode=calcul
Then, default for LNOSOF and LVERTSHIFT from NAM_SURF_ATM are inverted: (...)
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