Draft of the schedule for the building of SURFEX V8

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 NEW_PREP+CNRM_CM6_DEV (+ ECUME) +MEB_DEV2

• 1-15 April 2014: Matthieu Lafaysse merges and tests lafaysse_dev_for_test
• 15-30 April 2014: Béatrice Vincendon merges and tests isbatop_df_Npatches
• 1-15 May 2014: Valery Masson merges and tests TEB_DEV_1514
• 16-31 May 2014: Patrick Samuelsson merges and tests rotated latlon grid

// NB: the 3 following contributions were already merged with NEW_PREP and included in AROME CY40t1. To be seen if the resulting common version couldn’t be taken as basis for SURFEX V8. The question of tests remains to be solved. //

• 1-10 June 2014: Ulf Andrae merges and tests new_soda
• 11-20 June 2014: François Bouttier merges and tests stochastic surface perturbations
• 21-30 June 2014: ?? merges ans tests OI_MAIN + PREP from GMAP

• 1-10 July 2014: Alina Barbu merges ans tests VARASSIM

• 11-20 July 2014: Rafiq Hamdi merges and tests ALADIN modifications // could be included in another contribution because concerns only 3 files - to be seen with Rafiq //
  contribution included in branch NEW_PREP December,6th 2013.

• 21-31 July 2014: Gaëlle Tanguy merges and tests MESONH modifications
• 1-15 August 2014: Rimvydas Jasinskas merges and tests HIRLAM technical modifications
• 16 August - 15 September 2014: Gabriel Jonville merges and tests the suppression of global variables