UKCA & UMUI Tutorials
Do NOT use the UKCA Tutoral jobs for scientific studies. They are designed to be used as training aids.
The following tutorials will teach you how to use various aspects of UKCA, and the parts of the UMUI (Unified Model User Interface) that are specific to UKCA.
Before you begin this tutorial you should first get a PUMA and a HECToR or MONSooN account (see Getting_Started_with_UKCA) and have completed the NCAS-CMS UM FCM Tutorial.
The topics covered in this tutorial are:
- Running and exploring an existing UKCA Job
- What is STASH?
- Adding new chemical tracers
- Adding a new emissions
- Adding new chemical reactions
- Adding new UKCA diagnostics
This tutorial can be run on both HECToR and MONSooN. The HECToR UMUI experiment is , and the MONSooN experiment is .
This tutorial is based on UM8.2. While some aspects of the UM and UMUI will be different from the version of the UM you will be using, many things are the same. The UKCA source code at UM8.2 is very similar to that at UM7.3.
You will also find the NCAS-CMS pages very useful: cms.ncas.ac.uk