Projects

CMS provides direct funded and un-funded support for a range of projects.

Current Projects

Core Projects	Funded Projects
	eCSE XIOS Implementation of XIOS in the Atmospheric Component of the Unified Model
CF Python Ongoing developments in the exploitation of the CF Python data model	ESiWACE Excellence in SImulation of Weather and Climate in Europe
GA Assessment Jobs Making the standard GA assessment jobs and data available to the NERC community	CMS-GUNGHO Preliminary investigation of Dynamo optimization on GPUs and MIC using OpenACC
High Resolution Gravity Wave Modelling	IMPALA and ParaCon Developing diagnostic capabalities for MONC (Met Office NERC cloud model).
Porting and optimising the UM
Rose (2013-) From UM vn9.0 onwards the UMUI will be replaced with Rose	IS-ENES2 (2013-17) The second InfraStructure for the European Network for Earth System Simulation project. Funded for 51 months FTE (2013-17)
UM NetCDF Project working on modifying the UM to write CF-NetCDF output	FASCINATE "Forecasting Air-Sea Coupled Interactions in Numerical weather prediction for Atmospheric Tropical Extremes"
ARCHER UM Module Environment Design and implementation of UM modules for ARCHER to facilitate the management of software upgrades
NCAS Climate Summer School 2015	INCOMPASS NERC/MoES project to improve the skill of rainfall prediction in operational weather & climate models
UKCA United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols project
UKESM1
UM Training Development and delivery of hands-on UM training incorporating Rose/Cylc technology and coupled modelling	VERA NERC Project to investigate impact of tropical forests on rainfall

Previous Projects

2017

Core Projects

Monsoon2 Monsoon upgrade to XCS

2016

Funded Projects

KPP Integrating MetUM-GOML into Rose (See also FASCINATE)

NEMOVAR A Rose-based ocean assimilation suite ported from the Met Office to MONSooN

SWAMMA NERC project to set up SWAMMA 40km, 12km, and 4km UM runs; perform the integrations on ARCHER, manage the resulting data sets

2015

Core Projects	Funded Projects
FEBBRAIO Two 100 model year runs of N512 ORCA 025 GC2 jobs	INSPECT This is a NERC project “Improving simple climate models through process-based analysis of ocean heat uptake in AOGCMs and observations” (T.Kuhlbrodt, R Tailleux, J M Gregory)
MONSooN XC40 Installation, porting, and testing of UMs from the IBM MONSooN to the Cray MONSooN	OpenIFS-local A local installation of OpenIFS for use in an MSc project and as a test case for possible wider use as a teaching tool
NOC- Mobilis 96 ORCA1 GC2 job is ported to NOC machine MOBILIS	OpenIFS-ARCHER Installation of OpenIFS on ARCHER

2014

Core Projects

Performance Modelling

2013

Core Projects	Funded Projects
HECToR to ARCHER Transition Making the transition from HECToR to ARCHER	CLIMIP Climate Model Initialisation and Improvement using Particle Filter Code is a NERC funded project lead by PJ van Leeuwen at Reading University
UM Nesting Porting the Met Office's Nesting Suite to HECToR	OpenIFS-IO Collaboration with ECMWF with the aim of implementing a more sophisticated I/O model in OpenIFS (on HECToR)