diff --git a/Inst_eddies/Tests/examine_eddy.f90 b/Inst_eddies/Tests/examine_eddy.f90
index ba1cd47157e1cf57ed3524521eb04923692f0e17..a1b567317ccbd33e62a4dd473961ac34f669bd55 100644
--- a/Inst_eddies/Tests/examine_eddy.f90
+++ b/Inst_eddies/Tests/examine_eddy.f90
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ program examine_eddy
   ! For a particular target instantaneous eddy, identified by its
   ! orientation, date and intra-date eddy index, the program reads in
   ! an SHPC the coordinates of all the extrema at the target date, and
-  ! the SSH of the extremum of the target instantaneous eddy. This
+  ! the SSH of the extremum of the target instantaneous eddy. The
   ! program also reads SSH, u, v at the target date.
 
   ! The program writes:
diff --git a/Inst_eddies/Tests/short_tests.json b/Inst_eddies/Tests/short_tests.json
index 8c6a7d92059f838a63a6ec5478b17e4573fc573f..2c5d8bc83810652e50206255861227101959d432 100644
--- a/Inst_eddies/Tests/short_tests.json
+++ b/Inst_eddies/Tests/short_tests.json
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 	"The file outside_points created by this test is used in other tests."
     },
     "Get_1_outerm": {
+	"description": "Target eddy is cyclone number 3 in test Extraction_eddies_region_1_noise.",
 	"input": "&main_nml date = 20454/\n",
 	"symlink":
 	[
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
 	"sel_diff_args": {"exclude": ["n_slices.txt"]}
     },
     "Get_1_outerm_noise_2_8": {
-	"description": "Assume insufficient amplitude for extrema 2 and 8. Even if extremum 8 does not have a particularly small amplitude, we just want to see the target extremum, 6, grow its outermost contour compared to the case without minimum amplitude.",
+	"description": "Same as test Get_1_outerm except that we have changed outside points: we have removed cyclone 4 in test Extraction_eddies_region_1_noise. We just want to see the target extremum grow its outermost contour.",
 	"input": "&main_nml date = 20454/\n",
 	"create_file": [
             "config_nml.txt",
diff --git a/Inst_eddies/Tests/test_get_1_outerm.f90 b/Inst_eddies/Tests/test_get_1_outerm.f90
index be24d88fe44f7dac2da860dcb3276e482fabe5cd..86b68a2cad18cc474a9715d61689c06c5c558ee6 100644
--- a/Inst_eddies/Tests/test_get_1_outerm.f90
+++ b/Inst_eddies/Tests/test_get_1_outerm.f90
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 program test_get_1_outerm
 
+  ! This program targets an extremum identified by its orientation and
+  ! its coordinates in projection space. It reads a field of SSH. It
+  ! writes an SHPC containing a single record, and shapefiles
+  ! cont_list and cont_list_proj.
+
   ! Libraries:
   use contour_531, only: polyline, convert_to_ind
   use jumble, only: csvread, deg_to_rad, rad_to_deg