About UKCA
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What is UKCA?
UKCA is an underpinning research programme part of the NERC-Met Office Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme (http://www.jwcrp.org.uk/under/index.asp).
UKCA provides the capability to simulate aerosol and chemical processes in the Met Office Unified Model and is a core component of the UK Earth System model.
UKCA is an international project with partners in:
- Met Office
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
- (NIWA)
Why do we need UKCA?
- Scope of current chemistry and aerosol models is insufficient for Earth System modelling.
- NCAS expertise is required to improve climate models.
- To encourage wider community research in this area.
Objective of UKCA
To build and scientifically evaluate a new UK community atmospheric chemistry-aerosol global model suitable for a range of topics in climate and environmental change research.
Science targets in UKCA
- Coupled tropospheric-stratospheric chemistry–climate model
- Coupled aerosol-chemistry model
- Improvements to Aerosol modelling
- Internally mixed aerosol
- New aerosol species
More information
Media:UKCA_Aerosols_2013_UM_tutorial.pdf - an overview of aerosol modelling in the UM in general and UKCA in particular. Presented at UM User tutorial 2013. Nick Savage
