UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorials at UMvn13.9

UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorials at UM vn13.9 using Rose & Cylc

The following tutorials will teach you how to use various aspects of UKCA, and the parts of Rose (the Unified Model's python-based user interface) that are specific to UKCA. These tutorials will begin with using the UKCA Box Model before using UKCA within the Met Office Unified Model

Things to know before you start

Background and Motivation

Configuring X2Go client & other connection methods

Additional Resources

Accessing the Python notebooks through Cylc

#	Difficulty	Time to Complete	Topic	Video
Introduction to UKCA
1	EASY	Under 1 hour	Running an existing UKCA Box Model Suite	Walkthrough (YouTube)
2	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Changing UKCA Box Model Options	Walkthrough (YouTube)
3	EASY	Under 1 hour	Running an existing UM-UKCA suite	Walkthrough (YouTube)
4	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	What is STASH?	Walkthrough (YouTube)
5	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Adding emissions Part 1	Walkthrough (YouTube)
6	HARD	2 or more hours	Examining aerosol impacts Part 1	Walkthrough (YouTube)
Advanced UKCA
7	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Add new UKCA chemical tracers	Walkthrough (YouTube)
8	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Adding new chemical reactions	Walkthrough (YouTube)
9	HARD	2 or more hours	Adding new UKCA tracers to the UM	Walkthrough (YouTube)
10	HARD	2 or more hours	Adding emissions Part 2	Walkthrough (YouTube)
11	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Adding dry deposition of chemical species	Walkthrough (YouTube)
12	EASY	Under 1 hour	Adding wet deposition of chemical species	Walkthrough (YouTube)
13	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Examining aerosol impacts Part 2	Walkthrough (YouTube)
14	HARD	2 or more hours	Adding new UKCA chemical diagnostics	Walkthrough (YouTube)
Working with UKCA data
15	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Viewing and processing global UM-UKCA data with python	Walkthrough (YouTube)
16	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Using the VISION toolkit	Walkthrough (YouTube)
17	MEDIUM	1-2 hours	Working with LFRic data	Walkthrough (YouTube)

These tutorials are an update and expansion of the tutorials which were at UMvn8.2, UMvn8.4, UMvn10.4, UMvn10.9, UMvn11.8, and UMvn13.0

These tutorials have been funded by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, the NERC Advanced Training: Short Courses award scheme, the ACITES Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Network, and the Software Sustainability Institute. Many thanks to JASMIN for use of the Unmanaged Cloud. Many thanks to Amazon for support in using AWS.

Written by Luke Abraham 2025