User’s guide

Subsections

• 1. How to install the software
• 2. Overview of the externalized surface sequence
  • 2.2. The atmospheric models using the externalized surface
    • 2.2.1. In offline mode
    • 2.2.2. in MESONH
• 3. Off-line Guide
  • 3.2. Forcing files
  • 3.3. One example of off-line surfex application
    • 3.3.1. netcdf format file
    • 3.3.2. ascii format files
  • 3.4. Some output of off-line simulation
• 4. The physiographic fields
  • 4.1. Choice of the surface schemes
  • 4.2. Definition of the grid
    • 4.2.1. Choice of the grid type
    • 4.2.2. Conformal projection grids (Mercator, Lambert, Polar stereographic)
    • 4.2.3. Cartesian grids
    • 4.2.4. Longitude-latitude grids
    • 4.2.5. Regular Lambert grids
    • 4.2.6. Gaussian grids
  • 4.3. Orography, subgrid orography gaussian indices and bathymetry
  • 4.4. Land cover data
    • 4.4.1. Choice of the type of land cover data
    • 4.4.2. ECOCLIMAP is used
    • 4.4.3. some land cover data fields are defined by user
  • 4.5. Specificities of ECOCLIMAP II classification
  • 4.6. Namelist to add user's own fields
  • 4.7. Namelist for chemistry anthropogenic emissions
• 5. Initialization of the prognostic fields
  • 5.2. Date initialization and default input data file for all schemes
  • 5.3. Sea scheme "SEAFLX"
  • 5.4. Lake scheme "WATFLX"
  • 5.5. Lake scheme "FLAKE"
  • 5.6. Vegetation scheme "ISBA "
  • 5.7. Town scheme "TEB "
• 6. How to run the externalized surface physical schemes
  • 6.1. "SURF_ATM" general options available over all tiles
  • 6.2. "SEAFLX" sea scheme options
  • 6.3. "WATFLX" inland water scheme options
  • 6.4. "FLAKE" lake scheme options
  • 6.5. "ISBA " vegetation scheme options
  • 6.6. "TEB" town scheme options
  • 6.7. "IDEAL" ideal flux scheme options
  • 6.8. Coupling with TRIP model
  • 6.9. Coupling with TOPMODEL
• 7. How to run the externalized surface chemical schemes
  • 7.1. Chemical settings control
  • 7.2. Chemical anthropogenic emissions
  • 7.3. Chemical deposition over ocean
  • 7.4. Chemical deposition over lakes
  • 7.5. Chemical deposition over towns
  • 7.6. Chemical deposition and biogenic emissions over vegetation
  • 7.7. Chemical aerosol scheme (ORILAM)
• 8. Externalized surface diagnostics
  • 8.1. Diagnostics relative to the general surface monitor
  • 8.2. Diagnostics relative to the general surface monitor and to each surface scheme
  • 8.3. Diagnostics relative to the ISBA vegetation scheme
  • 8.4. Diagnostics relative to the TEB town scheme
  • 8.5. Diagnostics relative to the FLAKE scheme
  • 8.6. Diagnostics relative to the sea
• 9. Externalized surface model output fields
  • 9.1. Prognostic model output fields
  • 9.2. Diagnostic model output fields
  • 9.3. Physiographic fields
• 10. Data assimilation
  • 10.1 Interface and usage
  • 10.2 Sea
  • 10.3 Inland water
  • 10.4 Nature
    • 10.4.2.1 ISBA: OI soil assimilation
    • 10.4.2.2 ISBA: EKF soil assimilation
    • 10.4.2.3 ISBA: ENKF soil assimilation.
  • 10.5 Town
• 11. Coupling with OASIS-MCT