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The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 Configurations The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 configurations Article Published Version Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY) Open Access Walters, D., Brooks, M., Boutle, I., Melvin, T., Stratton, R., Vosper, S., Wells, H., Williams, K., Wood, N., Allen, T., Bushell, A., Copsey, D., Earnshaw, P., Edwards, J., Gross, M., Hardiman, S., Harris, C., Heming, J., Klingaman, N., Levine, R., Manners, J., Martin, G., Milton, S., Mittermaier, M., Morcrette, C., Riddick, T., Roberts, M., Sanchez, C., Selwood, P., Stirling, A., Smith, C., Suri, D., Tennant, W., Vidale, P. L., Wilkinson, J., Willett, M., Woolnough, S. and Xavier, P. (2017) The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 configurations. Geoscientific Model Development, 10 (4). pp. 1487-1520. ISSN 1991-9603 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1487-2017 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/69108/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1487-2017 Publisher: European Geosciences Union All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 1487–1520, 2017 www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/1487/2017/ doi:10.5194/gmd-10-1487-2017 © Author(s) 2017. CC Attribution 3.0 License. The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 configurations David Walters1, Ian Boutle1, Malcolm Brooks1, Thomas Melvin1, Rachel Stratton1, Simon Vosper1, Helen Wells1, Keith Williams1, Nigel Wood1, Thomas Allen1, Andrew Bushell1, Dan Copsey1, Paul Earnshaw1, John Edwards1, Markus Gross1,2, Steven Hardiman1, Chris Harris1, Julian Heming1, Nicholas Klingaman3, Richard Levine1, James Manners1, Gill Martin1, Sean Milton1, Marion Mittermaier1, Cyril Morcrette1, Thomas Riddick1,4, Malcolm Roberts1, Claudio Sanchez1, Paul Selwood1, Alison Stirling1, Chris Smith1, Dan Suri1, Warren Tennant1, Pier Luigi Vidale1, Jonathan Wilkinson1, Martin Willett1, Steve Woolnough3, and Prince Xavier1 1Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK 2Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Departamento de Oceanografía Física, Carretera Ensenada-Tijuana 3918, Ensenada BC 22860, Mexico 3National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6BB, UK 4Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Correspondence to: David Walters (david.walters@metoffice.gov.uk) Received: 19 July 2016 – Discussion started: 12 August 2016 Revised: 27 January 2017 – Accepted: 10 February 2017 – Published: 11 April 2017 Abstract. We describe Global Atmosphere 6.0 and Global Copyright statement. The works published in this journal are Land 6.0 (GA6.0/GL6.0): the latest science configurations of distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. the Met Office Unified Model and JULES (Joint UK Land This license does not affect the Crown copyright work, which Environment Simulator) land surface model developed for is re-usable under the Open Government Licence (OGL). The use across all timescales. Global Atmosphere 6.0 includes the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License and the OGL are ENDGame (Even Newer Dynamics for General atmospheric interoperable and do not conflict with, reduce or limit each other. modelling of the environment) dynamical core, which signif- © Crown copyright 2017 icantly increases mid-latitude variability improving a known model bias. Alongside developments of the model’s physical parametrisations, ENDGame also increases variability in the tropics, which leads to an improved representation of tropi- 1 Introduction cal cyclones and other tropical phenomena. Further develop- ments of the atmospheric and land surface parametrisations At the heart of all numerical models of the atmosphere is improve other aspects of model performance, including the the dynamical core, which is responsible for solving the at- forecasting of surface weather phenomena. mosphere’s equations of motion. The dynamical core used We also describe GA6.1/GL6.1, which includes a small by all operational configurations of the Met Office Uni- ™ number of long-standing differences from our main trunk fied Model (UM) prior to July 2014 was called “New configurations that we continue to require for operational Dynamics” (Davies et al., 2005). New Dynamics was in- global weather prediction. troduced in 2002 and made the UM the first operational Since July 2014, GA6.1/GL6.1 has been used by the model to solve a virtually unapproximated equation set – Met Office for operational global numerical weather predic- the deep-atmosphere, non-hydrostatic equations – which was tion, whilst GA6.0/GL6.0 was implemented in its remaining achieved using a semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian approach on global prediction systems over the following year. a regular longitude–latitude grid. This allowed us to pur- sue our seamless modelling strategy and use the same dy- namical core for global weather and climate predictions as Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 1488 D. Walters et al.: UM GA6.0/GA6.1 and JULES GL6.0/6.1 configurations for very high-resolution ( 1.5 km grid-spacing) convection- for removing their necessity in future releases. In July 2014, ≤ permitting simulations. To solve these equations in both a the Met Office implemented GA6.1/GL6.1 in its operational stable and timely manner, however, required the application global NWP suite alongside an increase of the determinis- of both explicit diffusion and polar filtering and to weight the tic global model’s horizontal resolution from N512 (approx- semi-implicit time stepping close to being fully implicit; this imately 25 km in the mid-latitudes) to N768 (approximately in turn numerically damped the model solution and smoothed 17 km) and an extension of the run length of the global en- synoptic-scale features. Furthermore, the details of how New semble from 3 to 7 days. In 2015, GA6.0/GL6.0 was imple- Dynamics was applied combined with the precise layout of mented in the GloSea5 seasonal prediction system as part of variables on the global grid meant that the scalability of New the Global Coupled 2.0 configuration (GC2.0; documented Dynamics was limited to the number of computer proces- in Williams et al., 2015) and has been used by the Met Office sors typically used in operational numerical weather pre- Hadley Centre for a series of climate change experiments as diction (NWP) today. It has been shown not to scale over part of the HadGEM3-GC2.0 climate model. the increased number of processors that will be required in Section5 of the paper includes an assessment of the the next 5–10 years. For this reason, following the imple- configuration’s performance in global weather prediction mentation of New Dynamics, the Met Office initiated the and atmosphere-only climate simulations. ENDGame’s im- development of “ENDGame” (Even Newer Dynamics for proved accuracy and reduced damping produces more de- General atmospheric modelling of the environment; Wood tail in individual synoptic features such as cyclones, fronts, et al., 2014). ENDGame is an evolution of New Dynamics troughs and jet stream winds. In the tropics, a combination designed to maintain its benefits whilst improving its accu- of ENDGame and improvements to the model’s physics im- racy, stability and scalability. The development of ENDGame proves the UM’s treatment of several modes of variability took over 10 years and its inclusion in the Global Atmo- including tropical cyclones, equatorial Kelvin waves and the sphere 6.0 (GA6.0) configuration described herein took a fur- MJO (Madden and Julian, 1971). Both ENDGame and im- ther 2 years. The first configuration to include ENDGame provements to the model’s physics are shown to contribute was GA5.0, which combined the replacement of the dynam- to some significant improvements to the forecasting of near- ical core with a number of developments and improvements surface weather. Finally, in Sect.6 we outline our progress to the model’s parametrisations. GA5.0 was frozen and as- and plans for ongoing model development. sessed in 2013 but was not released for wider use. Over the following 8 months, we included a number of bug fixes, improvements and additional parametrisation developments 2 Global Atmosphere 6.0 and Global Land 6.0 and froze GA6.0 in October 2013. At the same time we froze a science configuration of the JULES (Joint UK Land Envi- 2.1 Dynamical formulation and discretisation ronment Simulator; Best et al., 2011; Clark et al., 2011) land surface model designed for use with GA6.0: Global Land The UM’s ENDGame dynamical core uses a semi-implicit (GL6.0). semi-Lagrangian formulation to solve the non-hydrostatic, In Sect.2 of this paper we describe GA6.0 and GL6.0, fully compressible deep-atmosphere equations of motion whilst in Sect.3 we document how these differ from the last (Wood et al., 2014). The primary atmospheric prognostics documented configurations: GA4.0 and GL4.01,2. The de- are the three-dimensional (3-D) wind components, virtual velopment of these changes is documented using “trac” is- dry potential temperature, Exner pressure and dry density, sue tracking software; therefore, for consistency with that whilst moist prognostics, such as the mass mixing ratio of documentation, we list the trac ticket numbers along with water vapour and prognostic cloud fields, as well as other these descriptions.
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