Presentation of Patrick Lemoigne during the 1st AROME training course that took place in Poiana Brasov (Romania), on November 21-25, 2005 :

• Overview of the externalized surface: theoretical background
  • Introduction to SURFEX
    • The objectives of SURFEX
    • How to reach these objectives?
    • Surface energy budget
    • Water cycle
  • SURFEX package algorithms
    • Initialization of physiographic fields
    • Initialization of prognostic fields
    • Running surface physical parameterizations
  • Princip of SURFEX
    • Setup
    • I/O
    • Organization of physical computations
• The implementation in Arome and Aladin
  • Coupling with an atmospheric model
    • Introduction to coupling
    • Explicit coupling
    • Implicit coupling
    • Type of coupling and model
    • Example of coupling
  • Technical aspects
    • Main namelist options
    • Diagnostics
    • Physical options