Met_Office-NEMO - 2015 actions

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members

Name	Institution	%	Position
Tim Graham	Met Office	40	Project Officer
Dave Storkey	Met Office	20
Enda O'Dea	Met Office	20
Dan Lea or Daley Calvert?	Met Office	20

Summary: List here the actions NOT listed in SHARED ACTIONS

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status
Met_Office_1	Further updates to CICE interface
Met_Office_2.1	Equatorial Pressure Correction Term
Met_Office_2.2	Read/Process? Gridded Sea-ice/SST data
Met_Office_2.3	ADCP data in OBS
Met_Office_2.4	NetCDF compression of feedback files
Met_Office_2.5	Record info for SLA data
Met_Office_2.6	Satellite SSS & Microwave SST data in OBS
Met_Office_2.7	Sea Ice Increments
Met_Office_3	Diurnal Skin Model
Met_Office_4	User support/Documentation TBD
Met_Office_5	Research work on overflows
Met_Office_6	Ongoing development of Surge Model

Summary of SHARED ACTIONS (listed here for continuity)

Action	Brief description	Status	Branch name	Trac ticket n°	Wiki page name	Reviewer(s)	Review status	Shared Action Stream
Met_Office_7	AGRIF development							AGRIF
Met_Office_8	Surface Wave Coupling							Wave W.G.
Met_Office_9	Further 1D config changes							Robustness
Met_Office_10	Efficiency improvements in OBS							Robustness
Met_Office_11	Numerical Mixing (collaboration with Alex Megann (NOCS)							Robustness
Met_Office_12	Validation of NEMO3.6 (inc. ORCA025-CICE & AMM7)							Robustness

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Met_Office-1 -

Motivation: Changes required for Met Office CMIP6 contribution
Status : Code exists in a local branch at NEMO3.4
Main tasks : Changes to CICE coupling code to allow use of Multicategory sea-ice, Meltponds, Salinity dependent freezing temperature.
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Deadline: March 2015 (to merge before 3.6 final release)
Priority: Medium
Depends on:
Principal Investigator : Tim Graham/Jamie? Rae

Met_Office-2.1 -

Motivation: Used in data assimilation
Status :
Main tasks : Equatorial Pressure correction & Bias Correction
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Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on:
Principal Investigator : Jennie Waters

Met_Office-2.2 - Read Gridded SST & sea ice data

Motivation: This code would allow us to process gridded SST and seaice data through the observation operator
Status :The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
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Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on:
Principal Investigator : James While

Met_Office-2.3 - ADCP Data in OBS

Motivation: Reads current data from ADCP files for comparison with model data
Status :The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
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Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
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Principal Investigator : James While

Met_Office-2.4 -

Motivation: Motivation: This code would allow us to more easily store feedback files at a higher compression
Status : The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
Science Reviewer:
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Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on:
Principal Investigator : James While

===Met_Office-2.5 - Add record information to SLA data=== Motivation: Allows storage of record information for SLA data
Status : The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
Science Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
System Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on: N/A
Principal Investigator : James While (james.while@…)

===Met_Office-2.6 - Addition of Satellite Surface Salinity data and Microwave SST data to OBS routines=== Motivation: Allow comparison of satellite surface salinity and microwave SST data through the OBS routines.
Status : The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
Science Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
System Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on: N/A
Principal Investigator : Dan Lea (daniel.lea@…) (work to be done with Niall McConnell and Jonah Roberts Jones)?

===Met_Office-2.7 - Sea ice increments=== Motivation: Implement code used to apply seaice increments; this is used for data assimilation of ice variables. It will also be necessary to make sure the code is compatible with cice
Status : The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4
Main tasks : Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document
Science Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
System Reviewer: NEMOVAR community
Deadline: October 2014 (likely sooner since there is little to do)
Priority: Medium
Depends on: N/A
Principal Investigator : Dan Lea (daniel.lea@…)

===Met_Office-3 - Diurnal Skin SST model=== Motivation : Allow modelling of skin temperature
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Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
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Principal Investigator : James While

===Met_Office-4 - User support & documentation === Motivation :
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===Met_Office-5 - Research work on overflows === Motivation: Currently the model fails to properly capture dense water formation and the asociated flows over sills, especially in z coordidnate models. This could be improved by parameterising the process
Status : Some investigative work has begun
Main tasks : To assess the various options available with a view to implement a parameterisation in NEMO in future
Science Reviewer: N/A
System Reviewer: N/A
Deadline: Ongoing, possibly November 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on: N/A
Principal Investigator : Tim Graham (tim.graham@…)

=== Met_Office-6 - Ongoing development of a surge model === Motivation: Carry out surge predictions in NEMO framework
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=== Met_Office-7 - AGRIF development === Motivation: It would be useful to be able to use AGRIF to enhance the vertical resolution of the model in some regions (e.g. overflows). Status: Main Tasks: Take Laurent Brodeau's 1st attempt code and update/improve it to provide this functionality Science Reviewer:
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Principal Investigator : Daley Calvert/Tim? Graham (TBD)

=== Met_Office-8 - Surface Wave coupling === Motivation: Allow use of wave model in coupled model runs
Status: Main Tasks: Science Reviewer:
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Depends on: Previous actions from Wave WG
Principal Investigator : Francois-Xavier Boquet

Met_Office-9 - Further 1D configuration changes

Motivation: Add further functionality that there wasn't time for in the 2013 development
Status : Plan exists
Main tasks : Add namelist domain control, case studies, maybe remove CPP key dependence.
Science Reviewer: Romain Bourdalle-Badie
System Reviewer: Romain Bourdalle-Badie
Deadline: October 2015
Priority: Medium
Depends on: N/A
Principal Investigator : Daley Calvert (daley.calvert@…)

Met_Office-10 - Effiency improvements in OBS

Motivation: OBS operator needs to be more efficient for future use in high resolution models (e.g. ORCA12) Status: Main Tasks: Science Reviewer:
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Principal Investigator : Jennie Waters

Met_Office-11 - Numerical Mixing

Motivation: Experiments to reduce numerical mixing in NEMO Status: Main Tasks: Science Reviewer:
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Principal Investigator : Dave Storkey

Met_Office-12 - Validation

Motivation: Validation of model configs before release Status: Main Tasks: Science Reviewer: N/A
System Reviewer: N/A
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Principal Investigator : Tim Graham/Dave? Storkey/Enda? O'Dea