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UKESM Newsletter no.5 – June 2017
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Parameter tuning for UKESM1
by Alistair Sellar, Jane Mulcahy, Doug Kelley and Colin Jones.
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Atmospheric Chemistry in UKESM1
by Fiona O’Connor.
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Land-use in UKESM1
by Eddy Robertson.
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UKESM at the Crosscurrents Poetry Event
by Lee de Mora and Ben Smith.
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Recent past events
20-22 March 2017 – Coupling Technologies for Earth System Models Workshop at Princeton University:
Coupling is an important aspect of the construction of a climate model. It manages complexity by allowing the system to be separated into domain-specific components (atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, …) each of which can be developed separately or replaced by a component of similar functionality. Coupling enables collaboration between groups working in disparate scientific domains, and facilitates the efficient use of compute resources by allowing load balancing across the components. Read more about the workshop report. |
23-28 April 2017 – European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna: The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2017 was held in Vienna on 23-28 April (see http://www.egu2017.eu/). The programme consisted of multiple parallel streams covering a very wide range of subjects; individual sessions had attendance ranging from a handful of people to several hundred. For example, one of these examined whether a two degree global warming limit was possible without relying on carbon capture and storage. Read more about the EGU meeting report. |
12-13 June 2017 – UKESM-LTSM Annual meeting in Oxford:The NERC-funded UKESM Long Term Science Multi-centre (LTSM) project recently met at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, to continue work on this exciting project. Participants from most of the NERC centres and the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC), as well as almost all members of our newly formed International Advisory Board, attended the meeting where project member showcased despite some external delays the solid progress towards its primary goals the project is making. |
Upcoming events
3-9 July 2017 – UKESM at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London:
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