= '''Met Office-NEMO team - 2011 actions''' = [[BR]] [[PageOutline]] Last edited [[Timestamp]] '''members''' ||Ian Culverwell||Met-Office, Exeter||25 NEMO System Team Officer|||| ||Christopher Harris||Met-Office, Exeter||15|||| ||Richard Hill||Met-Office, Exeter||15|||| ||Enda O’Dea||Met-Office, Exeter||15|||| ||Dave Storkey||Met-Office, Exeter||15|||| ||Rachel Furner||Met-Office, Exeter||15|||| '''total weeks :''' [[BR]]56 Summary: ||Action||Brief description||Status||Branch name||Trac ticket n°||Wiki page name||Reviewer(s)||Review status||Ready for merge|| ||UKMET-1||AMM + Coastal shelf modelling|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-2||GODAE metrics|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-3||Rewriting rebuild|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-4||Include radiation conditions in BDY|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-5||Develop a capability to allow OBC users to use BDY|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-6||Adapt BDY to use fldread|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-7||Validation toolkit rewriting (in collaboration with LOCEAN)|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-8||Interface between NEMO & atmos for multicategory sea-ice (CICE and LIM3) (with LOCEAN)|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-9||Subtimestepping in TOP|||||||||||||||| ||UKMET-10||OBS and ASM improvements|||||||||||||||| ---- === '''UKMO.1 — '''AMM + Coastal shelf modelling === '''Motivation:''' [[BR]] '''Status :''' [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' '''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:''' '''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Enda O'Dea [[BR]] === '''UKMO.2 — '''GODAE metrics === '''Motivation:''' [[BR]] '''Status :''' [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' '''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:''' '''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Catherine Guiavarc'h [[BR]] === '''UKMO.3 — '''Rewriting rebuild === '''Motivation:  '''To speed up the process of rebuilding NEMO output files and restart files. [[BR]] '''Status :'''  Most of the coding is done but it needs a little tidying up and generalising.[[BR]] '''Main tasks : '''Tidying up the code and running some speed/memory usage and reproducability tests (including ensuring the results are the same as given by the old rebuild).[[BR]]'''Science Reviewer: ''' N/A?[[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila?[[BR]]'''Deadline:''' TBA'''[[BR]]Priority:'''  Low/Medium?'''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Ed Blockley (ed.blockley@metoffice.gov.uk) [[BR]] === '''UKMO.4 — '''Include radiation conditions in BDY === '''Motivation:''' As part of the merge of OBC and BDY, the OBC radiation condition needs to be implemented in BDY [[BR]] '''Status :''' Not started [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' OBC user [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila? '''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:''' Medium '''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Dave Storkey [[BR]] === '''UKMO.5 — '''Develop a capability to allow OBC users to use BDY === '''Motivation:''' It is planned to suppress OBC in the long term and use BDY for open boundary conditions. We need to develop tools or code to make it easy for OBC-style boundary data files to be used with BDY. [[BR]] '''Status :''' Not started. [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' OBC user [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila? '''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:''' Medium'''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Dave Storkey [[BR]] === '''UKMO.6 — '''Adapt BDY to use fldread === '''Motivation:''' For efficiency and code maintainability, we want to adapt BDY to use the SBC fldread module to manage the reading in of data from data files. [[BR]] '''Status :''' [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' N/A? [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila?'''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:''' Medium'''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Dave Storkey [[BR]] === '''UKMO.7 — '''Validation toolkit rewriting (in collaboration with LOCEAN) === '''Motivation:''' NVTK is to be replaced with something more generally flexible, adaptable, maintainable and portable. [[BR]] '''Status:''' Commencing investigation into possible "off-the-shelf" solutions. [[BR]] '''Main tasks:''' [[BR]] (1) Investigate possibility of using the Met Office User Test Framework (UTF) system - RH (1 week) [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer: ''' Simona Flavoni [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila [[BR]]'''Deadline:''' TBA [[BR]]'''Priority:''' Medium/High[[BR]]'''Principal Investigator:''' Richard Hill (richard.hill@metoffice.gov.uk) - consultancy role. [[BR]] === '''UKMO.8 — '''Interface between NEMO & multicategory sea-ice (CICE and LIM3) === '''Motivation:''' Useful for comparing sensitivity to different sea ice models and to allow climate runs with LIM3 [[BR]] '''Status :''' Some worked started in 2010. [[BR]] '''Main tasks :''' Allow sbccpl interface to work with multi-category fields atmosphere fields for both LIM3 and CICE. (6w) [[BR]] '''Science Reviewer :''' Sebastien Masson[[BR]]'''Potential System Reviewer : '''Sebastien Masson [[BR]] '''Deadline :''' 1st June 2011 [[BR]]'''Priority :''' Medium [[BR]] '''Principal Investigator :''' Chris Harris (christopher.harris@metoffice.gov.uk) === '''UKMO.9 — '''Subtimestepping in TOP === '''Motivation:''' Need to be able to properly substep the TOP routines with the VVL code. [[BR]] '''Status :''' I seem to have it working in 3.2 but it will need substantial work to fit into the NEMO framework and 3.3.[[BR]] '''Main tasks : ''' Create new variables for time means of physics fields and set up appropriate calls to recalculate necessary variables based on those averages. Ensure that the correct time means are being used by the advection and diffusion routines [[BR]]'''Science Reviewer:''' Christian Ethe[[BR]]'''System Reviewer: ''' Christian Ethe '''[[BR]]Deadline:''' '''[[BR]]Priority:'''High '''[[BR]]Principal Investigator:''' Karen Edwards (karen.edwards@metoffice.gov.uk) [[BR]] === '''UKMO.10 — '''OBS and ASM improvements === '''Motivation:''' Maintain and improve the data assimilation interface code.[[BR]] '''Status:''' Code is in vn3.3 but requires maintenance and upgrades.[[BR]] '''Main tasks:''' (3w) [[BR]] 1. Maintain the OBS and ASM code. 1. Implement and test any upgrades to the OBS and ASM code. 1. Improve the documentation for the OBS and ASM code. 1. Develop the test environment so that it includes tests for the OBS and ASM functionality.'''Science Reviewer:''' To be reviewed by NEMOVAR partners [[BR]]'''System Reviewer:''' Rachid Benshila[[BR]]'''Deadline:''' 30 September 2011 [[BR]]'''Priority:''' Medium [[BR]]'''Principal Investigator:''' Daniel Lea (daniel.lea@metoffice.gov.uk) [[BR]]