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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The SURFEXv7.2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes
Geoscientific Model Development, Volume 6, No. 4, Year 2013
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Description
SURFEX is a new externalized land and ocean surface platform that describes the surface fluxes and the evolution of four types of surfaces: nature, town, inland water and ocean. It is mostly based on pre-existing, well-validated scientific models that are continuously improved. The motivation for the building of SURFEX is to use strictly identical scientific models in a high range of applications in order to mutualise the research and development efforts. SURFEX can be run in offline mode (0-D or 2-D runs) or in coupled mode (from mesoscale models to numerical weather prediction and climate models). An assimilation mode is included for numerical weather prediction and monitoring. In addition to momentum, heat and water fluxes, SURFEX is able to simulate fluxes of carbon dioxide, chemical species, continental aerosols, sea salt and snow particles. The main principles of the organisation of the surface are described first. Then, a survey is made of the scientific module (including the coupling strategy). Finally, the main applications of the code are summarised. The validation work undertaken shows that replacing the pre-existing surface models by SURFEX in these applications is usually associated with improved skill, as the numerous scientific developments contained in this community code are used to good advantage. © Author(s) 2013.
Authors & Co-Authors
Masson, V.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Le Moigne, P.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Martin, E.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Faroux, S.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alias, A.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alkama, R.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Belamari, S.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Barbu, A.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Boone, Aaron Anthony
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bouyssel, François
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Brousseau, P.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Brun, E.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Calvet, J. C.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Carrer, D.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Decharme, Bertrand
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Délire, Christine
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Donier, S.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Essaouini, K.
Morocco, Casablanca
Cnrm
Gibelin, A. L.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France, Toulouse
Direction de la Climatologie
Giordani, H.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Habets, Florence
France, Fontainebleau
Centre de Géosciences
Jidane, M.
Morocco, Casablanca
Cnrm
Kerdraon, G.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Kourzeneva, E.
Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg
Russian State Hydrometeorological University
Finland, Helsinki
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Lafaysse, M.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Lafont, S.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Lebeaupin Brossier, C.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Lemonsu, A.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Mahfouf, Jean François
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marguinaud, P.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Mokhtari, Mohamed
Algeria, Algiers
Office National de la Météorologie
Morin, Samuel
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Pigeon, G.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Salgado, R.
Portugal, Evora
University of Évora
Seity, Y.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Taillefer, Françoise
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tanguy, G.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tulet, Pierre
France, Saint-denis
Université de la Réunion
Vincendon, B.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Vionnet, V.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Voldoire, A.
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Statistics
Citations: 652
Authors: 41
Affiliations: 9
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5194/gmd-6-929-2013
ISSN:
1991959X
e-ISSN:
19919603
Research Areas
Environmental
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative