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| Number | Title | vn4.5 | vn5.x | vn6.x | vn7.x | vn8.x |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 000 | Unified Model User Guide | vn6.6 | vn7.3, vn7.7 | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.4, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| 002 | Change Control Management of the UM System | vn4.5 | ||||
| 003 | Software Standards for the UM: Fortran and Unix | vn4.4 | vn7.6 | vn8.1, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| 005 | Notation, physical constants, units and variable names | vn2.6 | ||||
| 007 | Filenaming conventions for the UM System | vn4.5 | vn6.3 | vn7.9 | vn8.4 | |
| 010 | Conservative finite difference schemes for the Unified Forecast/Climate Model | vn4.5 | ||||
| 011 | Positive definite advection scheme | vn4.3 | ||||
| 013 | Derivation and calculation of Potential Vorticity | vn4.5 | ||||
| 014 | Solution of Poisson's equation on the sphere using Fourier Transforms | vn4.5 | ||||
| 015 | New Dynamics Formulation | vn6.3 | ||||
| 020 | Aerosol Processes | vn6.3 | vn8.1, vn8.5 | |||
| 021 | Vertical Diffusion | vn4.5 | ||||
| 022 | Gravity Wave Drag | vn4.5 | vn5.5 | vn8.1, vn8.5 | ||
| 023 | Radiation | vn4.5 | vn5.5 | vn8.2, vn8.6 | ||
| 023A | Spectral Files for the Radiation Scheme | vn8.6 | ||||
| 024 | The Parametrization of Boundary Layer Processes | vn3.1 | vn6.3 | vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| 024 | Subsurface, Surface and Boundary Layer Processes (Part 2) | vn3.1 | vn6.3 | |||
| 024 | Subsurface, Surface and Boundary Layer Processes (Part 3) | vn6.3 | vn7.9 | vn8.2, vn8.4 | ||
| 024A | The TKE based higher order turbulence closure scheme | vn7.7 | vn8.5 | |||
| 025 | Canopy, Surface and Soil Hydrology | vn3.4 | vn5.0 | |||
| 026 | Large-scale Precipitation | vn4.5 | vn7.6 | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.4 | ||
| 027 | Convection Scheme | vn4.4 | vn7.3 | vn8.2, vn8.5 | ||
| 027 | Convection Scheme - 6A | vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||||
| 028 | Subgrid Turbulence Scheme | vn6.6 | ||||
| 029 | Calculation of SSH and Large Scale Cloud | vn4.5 | vn6.4 | vn7.8 | vn8.0 | |
| 029A | Annexe to 029: The PC2 Cloud Scheme | vn6.4 | vn7.6, vn7.8 | vn8.0, vn8.1 | ||
| 030 | Analysis Correction Data Assimilation Scheme | vn4.5 | ||||
| 031 | Incremental Analysis Update (IAU) Scheme | vn7.6, vn7.9 | vn8.2 | |||
| 033 | Running the UM in Idealised Model | vn6.6 | ||||
| 034 | Non-Orographic (Spectral) Gravity Wave Parametrization | vn8.5 | ||||
| 035 | The Thunderstorm Electrification Parametrization Scheme | vn8.6 | ||||
| 040 | Ocean Model | vn4.5 | ||||
| 041 | Ocean Model fixed layer formulation | vn2.0 | ||||
| 044 | Ocean Model - Variable timestep with depth | vn2.0 | ||||
| 045 | Thermodynamic/Dynamic Sea-Ice Model | vn4.0 | vn6.1 | |||
| 047 | Heat Transfer diagnostics in the Ocean Model | vn3.2 | ||||
| 048 | Lateral Boundary Conditions in the Ocean Model | vn4.5 | ||||
| 050 | Application of surface heat and freshwater fluxes in the Ocean Model | vn4.5 | ||||
| 051 | Isopycnal Diffusion Scheme in the Ocean Model | vn4.5 | vn6.0 | |||
| 053 | The Ocean Carbon Cycle in the Ocean Model | vn4.4 | ||||
| 054 | The Gent and McWilliams Parametrization Scheme, including Visbeck and Biharmonic GM Schemes | vn6.0 | ||||
| 055 | Implementation of the Elastic-Viscous-Plastic Sea Ice Dynamics Scheme | vn5.3 | ||||
| 058 | The Slab Model | vn4.5 | vn5.4 | |||
| 059 | Ocean Models and the implementation of Vertical Diffusion and Vertical Mixing | vn4.5 | ||||
| 060 | Fourier Filtering in the Ocean Model | vn4.5 | ||||
| 061 | The McDougall et al. equation of state density calculation in the ocean | vn5.5 | ||||
| 070 | Specification of ancillary files | vn4.0 | vn6.6 | |||
| 071 | Specification of sea-ice fields | vn3.2 | ||||
| 072 | The SST analysis system | vn3.3 | ||||
| 073 | Ancillary file creation for the UM | vn4.4 | vn6.6 | |||
| 074 | Orography Ancillary file creation | vn6.0 | ||||
| 080 | Dynamical and Physical Diagnostic Calculations | vn2.2 | vn5.2 | |||
| 081 | Stochastic Physics Code in the UM | vn7.1, vn7.7 | vn8.0, vn8.6 | |||
| 082 | Transformed Eulerian Mean and Wave Drag Diagnostics on Pressure Levels | vn7.5 | ||||
| 083 | Nudging the Unified Model | vn8.0, vn8.4 | ||||
| 084 | UKCA Technical Description | vn8.2, vn8.4, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||||
| 085 | Global Energy Correction | vn8.6 | ||||
| 302 | HOWTO - Initialise a Field via the Reconfiguration | vn8.5 | ||||
| 303 | HOWTO - Convert GRIB data to a UM Dump via the reconfiguration | vn7.0 | vn8.1 | |||
| 304 | HOWTO - Add a new input variable to the UKCA interface | vn8.3 | ||||
| C1 | Dynamical Allocation of Primary Fields | vn3.2 | ||||
| C2 | Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling: Technical Overview | vn4.5 | vn7.5, vn7.7 | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.4, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| C3 | List of external files | vn4.5 | vn5.1 | vn7.7 | vn8.5 | |
| C4 | Storage Handling and Diagnostic System (STASH) | vn4.5 | vn7.1, vn7.8 | vn8.2, vn8.3, vn8.6 | ||
| C5 | Control of means calculations | vn2.7 | vn5.1 | vn7.7 | ||
| C6 | OASIS Coupling - Technical Overview | vn4.4 | ||||
| C7 | Update ancillary and boundary files in the atmosphere and ocean models | vn3.1 | ||||
| C71 | Atmospheric LBCs at UM5.3 - 6.3 | vn6.3 | ||||
| C9 | The Single Column Model | vn6.2 | vn7.7 | |||
| C10 | Input/Output Services in the Unified Model | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.3, vn8.6 | ||||
| D4 | Diagnostics on pressure levels for calculating eddy fluxes and variances of fields | vn4.5 | ||||
| D6 | Printed Diagnostics | vn2.7 | ||||
| D7 | Test Diagnostics for Output | vn3.1 | ||||
| F3 | Dumps, fieldsfiles, observation files and ancillary dataset format | vn4.5 | vn7.3, vn7.8 | vn8.2, vn8.3, vn8.5 | ||
| F5 | Unified Model file utilities | vn4.5 | vn7.1, vn7.4 | vn8.2, vn8.5 | ||
| F51 | Merge Utility | vn4.5 | vn5.1 | |||
| F52 | Modifying UM output fields | vn4.5 | vn5.1 | |||
| F53 | Fieldcalc | vn8.1, vn8.5 | ||||
| F54 | MAKEBC Utility | vn7.6 | vn8.4, vn8.5 | |||
| F57 | Frames - Utility to make a boundary dataset from model output | vn8.2 | ||||
| F59 | GRIB Utilities - Conversion to and from UM Output | vn8.2, vn8.5 | ||||
| S1 | Interpolation techniques and grid transformations | vn4.5 | ||||
| S4 | PP File Reinitialisation Scheme | vn5.3 | ||||
| S5 | C Utility Routines | vn4.5 | vn6.1 | vn7.9 | ||
| S11 | Technical Aspects of the Reconfiguration Program | vn7.1 | vn8.2, vn8.5, vn8.6 | |||
| X0 | Unified Model for External Users | vn4.5 | vn7.6, vn7.8 | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.4, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| X1 | Portability Considerations | vn3.4 | ||||
| X2 | The Nupdate Source Code Manager | vn3.2 | ||||
| X4 | Guidelines to Building the UM on External Systems | vn4.5 | vn7.6, vn7.8 | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.4, vn8.5, vn8.6 | ||
| X6 | Unified Model System File Details | vn8.0, vn8.4, vn8.6 | ||||
| X7 | The User Test Framework | vn8.0, vn8.2, vn8.3 | ||||
| Y1 | Unified Model Automated Output Processing System | vn4.5 | vn7.6 | vn8.6 | ||
| Z5 | System Maintenance Procedures | vn4.5 | ||||
| Z52 | Unified Model Compilation System | vn4.5 | vn7.5, vn7.7, vn7.9 | vn8.1, vn8.4, vn8.5 |
