= '''Met_Office-NEMO - 2015 actions''' = [[PageOutline]] Last edited [[Timestamp]] '''WARNING page currently in progress - ALL ACTIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE''' '''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 [https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/nemo/wiki/2015WP/2015SharedActions SHARED ACTIONS] || Action || Brief description || Status || Branch name || Trac ticket n° || Wiki page name || Reviewer(s) || Review status || Deadline || || Met_Office_1 || Further updates to CICE interface || || || || || || || Apr 2014 (fully tested, reviewed & merged || || Met_Office_2.1 || Equatorial Pressure Correction Term || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.2 || Read/Process Gridded Sea-ice/SST data || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.3 || ADCP data in OBS || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.4 || NetCDF compression of feedback files || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.5 || Record info for SLA data || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.6 || Satellite SSS & Microwave SST data in OBS || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_2.7 || Sea Ice Increments || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_3 || Diurnal Skin Model || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_4 || ''User support/Documentation TBD'' || || || || || || || N/A || || Met_Office_5 || Research work on overflows || || || || || || || N/A || || Met_Office_6 || Ongoing development of Surge Model || || || || || || || N/A || || Met_Office_9 || Further 1D config changes || || || || || || || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_11 || Numerical Mixing (collaboration with Alex Megann (NOCS) || || || || || || || N/A || Summary of [https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/nemo/wiki/2015WP/2015SharedActions 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 || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_8 || Surface Wave Coupling || || || || || || || Wave W.G. || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_10 || Efficiency improvements in OBS || || || || || || || Robustness || Oct 2014 || || Met_Office_12 || Validation of NEMO3.6 (inc. ORCA025-CICE & AMM7) || || || || || || || Robustness || May 2014 || || Met_Office_13 || Contribution to Simplification Working Group || || || || || || || Simplification || May 2014 || ---- === '''Met_Office-1 - ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Changes required for Met Office CMIP6 contribution [[BR]] ''' Status :''' Code exists in a local branch at NEMO3.4 [[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Changes to CICE coupling code to allow use of Multicategory sea-ice, Meltponds, Salinity dependent freezing temperature. [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' March 2015 (to merge before 3.6 final release) [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Tim Graham/Jamie Rae === '''Met_Office-2.1 - ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Used in data assimilation [[BR]] ''' Status :''' [[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Equatorial Pressure correction & Bias Correction [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015 [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' 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[[BR]] ''' Status :'''The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4 [[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015 [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' James While === '''Met_Office-2.3 - ADCP Data in OBS''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Reads current data from ADCP files for comparison with model data[[BR]] ''' Status :'''The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4 [[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015 [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' 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[[BR]] ''' Status :''' The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4 [[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015 [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' James While === ''' Met_Office-2.5 - Add record information to SLA data ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Allows storage of record information for SLA data[[BR]] ''' Status :''' The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4[[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015[[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on: '''N/A [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' James While (james.while@metoffice.gov.uk) === ''' 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.[[BR]] ''' Status :''' The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4[[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015[[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on: '''N/A [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Dan Lea (daniel.lea@metoffice.gov.uk) (work to be done with Niall [wiki:McConner 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[[BR]] ''' Status : ''' The code exits in a local branch at vn3.4[[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Check the existing code and implement in the appropriate NEMO version, test and document[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' NEMOVAR community [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2014 (likely sooner since there is little to do) '''''[[BR]] ''' '''''Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] '''Depends on''': N/A [[BR]] '''Principal Investigator :''' Dan Lea (daniel.lea@metoffice.gov.uk) === '''Met_Office-3 - Diurnal Skin SST model ''' === ''' Motivation :''' Allow modelling of skin temperature [[BR]] ''' Status :''' Used operationally at vn3.4 [[BR]] ''' Main Tasks :''' [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015 [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' James While === '''Met_Office-4 - User support & documentation ''' === '''Motivation :''' [[BR]] ''' Status :''' [[BR]] ''' Main Tasks :''' [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' === '''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[[BR]] ''' Status :''' Some investigative work has begun[[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' To assess the various options available with a view to implement a parameterisation in NEMO in future[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' Ongoing, possibly November 2015[[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium[[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' N/A[[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : '''Tim Graham (tim.graham@metoffice.gov.uk) === ''' Met_Office-6 - Ongoing development of a surge model ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Carry out surge predictions in NEMO framework [[BR]] ''' Status: ''' ''' Main Tasks :''' To add key to disable building of unnecessary components of code, and to allow code to run successfully with one layer (including adding a basic hpg scheme) [[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' n/a [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' n/a [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' n/a [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' low (work undergoing but no expectation to commit to trunk this dev year) [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' Wetting and Drying [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Rachel Furner (rachel.furner@metoffice.gov.uk) === ''' 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:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Daley Calvert/Tim Graham (TBD) === ''' Met_Office-8 - Surface Wave coupling ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Allow use of wave model in coupled model runs [[BR]] ''' Status: ''' ''' Main Tasks: ''' ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' Previous actions from Wave WG [[BR]] ''' 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[[BR]] ''' Status :''' Plan exists[[BR]] ''' Main tasks :''' Add namelist domain control, case studies, maybe remove CPP key dependence.[[BR]] ''' Science Reviewer:''' Romain Bourdalle-Badie [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' Romain Bourdalle-Badie [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' October 2015[[BR]] ''' Priority:''' Medium [[BR]] ''' Depends on: '''N/A [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : '''Daley Calvert (daley.calvert@metoffice.gov.uk) === '''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:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Jennie Waters === '''Met_Office-11 - Numerical Mixing (Joint action with NOC)''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Recent tests with the Lee et al (JPO 2002) diagnostic in ORCA025 have shown that NEMO in common with other models has high levels of numerical mixing of water masses in the interior when used at eddy-permitting resolution. The goal of this action is to further quantify this in the ORCA025 configuration and test options that may reduce the problem. [[BR]] ''' Status: ''' [[BR]] ''' Main Tasks: ''' * Repeat Lee et al diagnosis for coupled model with ORCA025 [[BR]] * Perhaps look at other diagnostics, eg. Ilicak et al (OM 2012), Burchard and Rennau (OM 2008), * Test impact of different numerical choices eg: [[BR]] * z tilde * alternative tracer advection schemes * Griffies rotation operator for isopycnal mixing * reduced gridscale Reynolds number using Smagorinsky or UBS momentum advection ''' Science Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigators : ''' Alex Megann (NOC), Dave Storkey (Met Office) === '''Met_Office-12 - Validation ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Validation of model configs before release ''' Status: ''' ''' Main Tasks: ''' ''' Science Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' Tim Graham/Dave Storkey/Enda O'Dea === '''Met_Office-13 - Simplification ''' === ''' Motivation: ''' Model needs to be simplified ''' Status: ''' ''' Main Tasks: ''' (1) Remove obsolete options, (2) Development of offline tools for generation of S coordinate grid files ''' Science Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' System Reviewer:''' N/A [[BR]] ''' Deadline:''' [[BR]] ''' Priority:''' [[BR]] ''' Depends on:''' [[BR]] ''' Principal Investigator : ''' TBD