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
Contains: modifications to run PREP with input LFI AROME file (M. Jidane) correction in oi_control (surface analysis, F. Taillefer)
This contribution could be added to a general GMAP contribution containing the SURFEX version that is included in AROME CY40t1 (containing also SODA from HIRLAM (...)
Contains: a new grid option: rotated lat lon
P. Samuelsson will include this contribution in SURFEX V8.
It’s considered with the intermediate developments.
Contains:
VARASSIM will be in the end part of SODA, but, as it was not done for the moment (lack of tie), and because of the need to have a running version of VARASSIM maintained in SURFEX, the external version is introduced in version 8.
A specific test case will be provided to enter STRATO (...)
NEW_PREP is the starting point of SURFEX V8. January 2014: Bertrand merges and tests CNRM_CM6_DEV (+ ECUME). February 2014: Bertrand merges MEB_DEV2 and begins to test it March 2014: Bertrand, Aaron, Eric Brun, Stéphane Sénési, Christine Delire, Roland Séférian, Patrick Le Moigne test (...)
Contains:
An energy budget is explicitly taken into account for the vegetation. This development is finished and a lot of tests were already done by A. Boone and P. Samuelsson, but for more validation, the tests will continue until February 2014.
MEB will be merged in SURFEX V8 by B. (...)
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