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• Analysis and assimilation
  • Blending of initial fields in ALADIN (2001)
  • CANARI
    • Optimal interpolation : CANARI (2002)
  • Observations
    • BATOR’s Changes and input files used
    • FCQODB task - analysis flags
    • For an efficient assimilation of OPERA radar data, Feb. 2020
    • format BUFR
    • Getting observational data from BDMO for atmospheric models
    • Getting observational data from BDMO for atmospheric models (part 1: lists)
    • Getting observational data from BDMO for atmospheric models (part 3 : filters used in Oulan/Bator)
    • ObsConvert (Bator using EcCodes)
    • OBSTAT documention
    • ODB items used to store GPSRO information in IFS CY32 (June 2007)
    • ODB items used to store GPSRO information in IFS CY33 (February 2008)
    • Pre-processing of ZTD observations from GPS stations (Nov 2007)
    • Tools for BUFR files, Oulan, (BDMO) Data extract
  • Variational
    • ALADIN documentation / 3DVAR aspects, 2007 updated
    • Preliminary experiments towards the pre-operational ALADIN 3DVar (2005)
    • Use of the 2D structure of GOM-arrays for the assimilation of radar reflectivities in the AROME model at Météo-France, April 2012
    • Variational diagnotic analysis (2006)
    • 4D-VAR script documentation (2002, in French)
    • 2000 - Realization of a simplified, differentiable and realistic physical parametrization for incremental four-dimensional variational data assimilation
• Climate model
  • ARPEGE-Climat V5.1 Algorithmic Documentation (2009)
• Climatologic and constant files
  • Computation of spectral orography in configuration 923 (Dec 2005)
  • Configuration e923 users guide (2002)
  • Organigramme of configuration 923 in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
• Configurations
  • ARPEGE/ALADIN : the galaxy (data flow around ARPEGE/ALADIN, 2000)
  • Basics about ARPEGE/IFS, ALADIN and AROME in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Configuration 801 in the cycle 40 of ARPEGE/IFS (July 2013)
  • Notice d’utilisation de la configuration 901 ISBA (2008)
  • Sphere to sphere transforms in spectral space in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS: configuration 911.
• Diagnostics
  • AROME diagnostics (June 2006)
  • CFU (cumulated fluxes) and XFU (instantaneous fluxes) in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Diagnostics by Horizontal Domains : DDH (2019)
  • FULL-POS in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • FULL-POS users guide since cycle 46, updated 8 Oct. 2021
  • New dataflow for DDH in Aladin/Arpege/Alaro/Arome
  • Post-processing "Fullpos" (2002, 2004)
  • Turbulence diagnostic (Eddy Dissipation Rate), ARPEGE cy43, January 2020
• Dynamics
  • "A and B" : Design of the hybrid vertical coordinate (eta), 2008
  • Changing in spectral horizontal diffusion tuning from CY29t1 (Feb 2005)
  • Consistency check with the ARPEGE/ALADIN hydrostatic equations (2005)
  • Continuity equation for non-spherical geometries in mass-coordinates
  • Digital filtering initialisation in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Extension of the equations for a moist precipitating atmosphere to mass-based coordinates in various contexts (2005)
  • General introduction and description of the SLHD : Semi-Lagrangian Horizontal Diffusion (March 2006)
  • Horizontal diffusion computations in cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Horizontal diffusion Scientific documentation : design and scaling of ARPEGE diffusions (2002)
  • Integration of the model equations, and eulerian dynamics, in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Jean-François Geleyn’s essential training course on Dynamics (2000)
  • Le non-hydrostatisme pour les débutants (in French, June 2000)
  • Modification of ARPEGE necessary to include the EGA-SA, "case (ii)"
  • Non-Hydrostatic Model versioned documentations (2013)
  • Proposal for the implementation of LESIDG in ALADIN (Oct 06)
  • Semi-Implicit spectral computations and predictor-corrector schemes in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Semi-Lagrangian computations in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Spectral transforms in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Study of the VFE discretisation in view of NH modeling (2004)
  • The non parametrised continuous equations at finite scale in the case of a multiple system (2005)
  • Transform library for ARPEGE/IFS and ALADIN (2002)
  • 4-points spline option for the semi-Lagrangian interpolation (February 2005)
• Files and data
  • "FA" subroutines or the ARPEGE/ALADIN files package (2004)
  • ARPEGE/ALADIN files : documentation of physic rows (in French, April 2006)
  • ARPEGE/ALADIN/AROME IO : technical aspects (cycle 39t1, May 2013)
  • ASCS : to make vertical cross sections of ARPEGE/ALADIN fields (2000)
  • EPYGRAM tool (February 2020)
  • FA API package (Mar 2010)
  • Internal structure of FA and LFI files (October 2006)
  • IO IN THE CYCLE 46t1r1 OF ARPEGE/IFS: CALL-TREE ASPECTS.
  • LFA Autodocumented Files Software (2001)
  • Programmes de tests de (fichiers) FA et LFI (1999)
  • PROGRID and GOBPTOUT : new files convertion (2004)
  • The LFI file access library (2002)
  • ODB : Observational DataBase
    • LAMFLAG_ODB : to provide an input ODB to run 3DVAR screening in ALADIN (2001)
    • ODB documentation
  • PINUTS
    • CHAGAL : to plot ALADIN or FULLPOS horizontal fields (1999)
    • DOMOLALO : create a domain giving South,Nort,East,West and resolution
    • ECTO or ECTPplasme: to compute spectral energy on ellipses (2007)
    • EDF or EDitFiles : to convert ALADIN grid-point fields into ASCII files (2007)
    • FRODO : to read header and contents of an ALADIN or FULLPOS file (1999)
    • MAKDO : to MAKe geographical aladin DOmains (2007)
    • SUBDO : to make aladin SUBDOmains (2007)
    • What is PALADIN ? (2002)
• Physics
  • ALADIN operational physics documentation (2005)
  • Aladin-dust user’s guide (Jan 2012, in French)
  • Arpege/Aladin single column model (2002)
  • Prognostic physics in ARPEGE-Climat (Algorithmic Documentation, 2009)
  • SURFEX scientific documentation
• Technical and coding aspects
  • Distributed Memory : introduction (2002)
  • Distributed memory features in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Eradication of arrays bounds violations in IFS/ARPEGE/AROME, August 2019
  • General Fortran optimizations guide, Dec 2019
  • Keywords in the cycle 43 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Minimizations in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Recommended variable naming in ARPEGE/IFS.
  • Trajectory management in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
  • User’s guide to add new GFL variables or new GFL attributes in ARPEGE/IFS, ALADIN, AROME: CYCLE 46t1r1.
  • User’s guide to add new surface variables or new surface attributes in ARPEGE/IFS, ALADIN, AROME: cycle 46t1r1.
  • Coding, phasing, porting
    • ClearCase manual (May 2007)
    • Coding standards for ARPEGE, IFS and ALADIN Systems (Nov. 2011)
    • Coding standards for ARPEGE/IFS/ALADIN (2003)
    • Cycling in the IFS-ARPEGE-AROME code: a GIT view, April 2019
    • GESTION DES NAMELISTS DE MITRAILLETTE, D’OLIVE ET DE L’OPERATIONNEL: CYCLE 46t1r1.
    • GMKPACK documentation or Getting started with gmkpack : environment to compile and make binaries
    • Library architecture and history of the technical aspects in ARPEGE/IFS, ALADIN and AROME in the cycle 46t1r1 of ARPEGE/IFS.
    • Meteo-France’s GIT toolbox: GIT-tools
    • MITRAILLETTE : to validate ALADIN configurations (2004)
    • MITRAILLETTE: ENVIRONNEMENT FILES AND USER’S GUIDE. VERSION v122018.
    • OOPS C++ Coding Guidelines (2013)
    • ORGANISATION DES DONNEES, ET LEUR INITIALISATION, DANS ARPEGE/IFS: CYCLE 45T1.
    • Phasing roadmap (Dec 2009)
    • Pour une meilleure gestion des namelists et des validations (Juin 2010).
    • Source navigator, Namelist Documentation Base, Operational files (2004)
    • The ARPEGE/ALADIN tech’ book : implications of LAM aspects on the global model code (Dec, 2007)
  • Projections, grids and model resolutions
    • Geometry package for ALADIN & AROME LAM (Dec 2009)
    • Graphics about possible future discretizations and resolutions in Arpège and Aladin-France (April 2007)
    • Les différents types de projection utilisés dans ALADIN (2002)
    • New geometry routines for ALADIN (January 2006)
    • Rotated/Tilted Mercator Projection (2011)
    • SUBGRID : to define parameters of an ALADIN subgrid (1999)
    • SURGERY : to determine a gaussian reduced grid (1999)
  • Systems and operations
    • Description technique du cycle d’assimilation d’ALADIN/France (2005)
    • MF BULL new computer : use and newcomer’ s guide
    • NEC User’s Guide : introduction to NEC “tori” machine at Météo-France (April 2007)

• IFS documentation

• ALADIN Newsletters
• NH Newsletters

• 2000 - ALATNET Seminar on High Resolution Modelling
  • ALATNET 1^st Training Course : on-line presentations
• 2001 - ALATNET Seminar on Data Assimilation
  • ALATNET 2^nd Training Course : on-line presentations
• 2002 - ALADIN maintenance and phasing training course
  • ALADIN maintenance and phasing training course : on-line presentations
• 2002 - ALATNET Seminar on Numerical Methods
  • ALATNET 3^rd Training Course : on-line presentations
• 2004 - Training course on ALADIN-NH
  • ALADIN-NH Training Course : on-line presentations and minutes
• 2005 - 1^st AROME training course
  • AROME 1^st Training Course : on-line presentations
• 2006 - ALADIN/HIRLAM Surface/Surfex training course
  • Announcement
  • Surface/SURFEX training course : Programme with on-line presentations and minutes
  • SURFEX training courses : Participants and photos
• 2007 - ALARO-0 Training course
  • ALARO-0 Training Course : on-line presentations
• 2008 - 2^nd AROME training course
  • Practical exercises
  • 2008 - 2^nd AROME training course : on-line presentations
• 2009 - SURFEX Training Course
  • SURFEX On-line presentations (2009)
  • SURFEX Practical exercises (2009)
• 2010 - Maintenance Training
  • Maintenance Training presentations (2010)
• 2019 : Code Training
  • Code Training WW, 9-12 Sept 2019, Toulouse

• BASICS
  • General code architecture and dataflow in ARPEGE/ALADIN/ALARO/AROME (presentation, 2007)
  • Getting started with ALADIN (presentation, 1997)
  • Presentation: basics about ARPEGE/IFS, ALADIN, AROME (CY45)
  • Status, plans and interactions AROME/ALADIN/Méso-NH/HIRLAM (presentation, 2004)
  • The AROME project (presentation, March 2008)
  • The AROME project (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • The HARMONIE System (Presentation, March 2008)
• Analysis and assimilation
  • Adjoint technique (presentation, 2001)
  • Assimilation of radar data in AROME (presentation, March 2008)
  • CANARI-DIAGPACK (presentation, 2001)
  • Digital Filtering and data assimilation (presentation, 2000)
  • Optimal estimation in meteorology (presentation, 2001)
  • The AROME RUC (presentation, March 2008)
  • Use of satellite data (presentation, 2001)
  • CANARI
    • Canari : code description - algorithms and data flow (presentation, 2002)
    • Canari : presentation (in French, Oct 2005)
  • Observations
    • Observations : use, screening, cost function, control and monitoring (presentation, 2001)
  • Variational
    • A posteriori verification of analysis and assimilation algorithms (presentation, 2001)
    • Variational Data Assimilation (presentation, 2001)
    • Variational Data Assimilation (presentation, 2001)
• Climatologic and constant files
  • Local exploitation of e923 (presentation, 2002)
• Configurations
  • Overview of the configurations currently existing in ARPEGE/IFS/ALADIN (presentation, June 2007)
• Diagnostics
  • DDH in AROME (presentation, March 2008)
• Dynamics
  • ALADIN-NH : how to run it ? (presentations, Nov 2005)
  • ALADIN-NH : why do we need it ? (presentations, Nov 2005)
  • Do we need NH model at 2.5 resolution ? (presentations, Nov 2005)
  • How to run NH kernel ? (presentation, March 2008)
  • NH equations, academic tests and open questions on dynamics (presentation, March 2008)
  • Transformation package TAL (presentation, 2002)
• Files and data
  • How to plot Arome output (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • ODB documentation (mainly in French), September 2018
  • ODB : Observational DataBase
    • A short overview of ODB (presentation, 2002)
    • Using ODB in ALADIN (documentation and presentation, 2002)
• Numerical analysis
  • Space discretization methods (presentation, 2002)
  • Advection treatment (presentation, 2002)
  • Numerical analysis (presentation, 2002)
  • Numerical filters (presentation, 2002)
  • Systems of equations (presentation, 2002)
  • Time discretization (presentation, 2002)
  • Variational calculus - minimization (presentation, 2002)
• Physics
  • AROME physics (presentation, March 2008)
  • Description of the MésoNH-AROME microphysical scheme and its evaluation by remote sensing tools (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Generalities on Méso-NH physics for AROME (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Mèso-NH turbulent scheme for AROME (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Méso-NH shallow convection scheme for AROME (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Microphysics in AROME (presentation, March 2008)
  • Reference multi-phasic equations (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Soil and land cover characteristics (presentation, 2000)
  • Subgrid condensation (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Surface assimilation (presentation, March 2008)
  • Surface parametrization (presentation, 2000)
  • SURFEX (presentation, March 2008)
  • The externalized surface : SURFEX (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • The known weaknesses of the Méso-NH physical package for AROME and the plans of improvement (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • 1D shallow convective case studies and comparison with LES (presentation, Nov 2005)
• Systems and operations
  • AROME scripts environment, how to run AROME ? (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • From individual scripts to the operational suite (presentation, 2002)
• Technical and coding aspects
  • AROME code management (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • AROME code architecture (generalities) and preparation of files involved in the model run (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Data flows in the direct model (presentation, 2002)
  • How running academic or real cases with ALADIN-NH (presentation, 2004)
  • Introduction to the architecture of the code ARPEGE/ALADIN in cycle 25T1 (presentation, 2002)
  • Parallel code and corresponding data structure (presentation, 2002)
  • Rapid introduction to the architecture of the ALADIN code with a focus on NH aspects (presentation, 2004)
  • Short introduction to OpenMP (presentation, 2002)
  • Some validation cases for AROME, the recommended and tested options (presentation, Nov 2005)
  • Coding, phasing, porting
    • Coding rules overview in ARPEGE/ALADIN (presentation, 2002)
    • Debugging & profiling : how and why (presentation, 2002)
    • From source code management to binaries production for Arpege/Aladin (presentation, 2002)
    • From source code management to binaries production for ARPEGE/ALADIN (presentation, 2003)
    • Phasing in Toulouse & process of validation (presentation, 2002)
    • Software evolution around ARPEGE, ALADIN, AROME (presentation, 2004)
    • Source code management tools for ALADIN (presentation, 2002)
    • Validations : the case of Full-Pos (presentation, 2002)
  • Projections, grids and model resolutions
    • Different projections for ALADIN (presentation, 2004)
    • New geometry setup for Aladin and Fullpos (presentation, 2002)

• Documentation, not publications
• Editorial
• Enhanced links with HIRLAM, LACE and ALADIN websites
• Instructions for an easy use of this site
• Technical informations about this site