UKCA Training Overview

UKCA training courses have been run since 2013. This page gives an overview of the content of each course and provides links to the handouts and videos (where available) of the lectures.

2013 Training

The 2013 training used the UMUI-based practicals at vn8.2.

2014 Training

The 2014 training used the UMUI-based practicals at vn8.4.

2015 Training

Please also see the UKCA training pages from January 2015.

The 2015 training used the UMUI-based practicals at vn8.4.

Time	Monday 5th January	Tuesday 6th January	Wednesday 7th January	Thursday 8th January	Friday 9th January
9am	Registration	Tracer Transport Nigel Wood	Chemical Solvers Oliver Wild Newton's Method	Earth-System Modelling Fiona O'Connor	Wet Scavenging Zak Kipling
9.45	Welcome Luke Abraham	Break	Break	Break	Break
10am	Chemistry Schemes Alex Archibald	Boundary Layer Processes Adrian Lock	Dry Deposition David Stevenson	Earth-System Modelling Gerd Folberth	ESM Assessment Dominic Spracklen
10.45	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
11.15	GLOMAP-mode Graham Mann	Emissions Carlos Ordonez	Student Presentations	RADAER Nicolas Bellouin	ACTIVATE Zak Kipling
12noon	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch 12.45-1.30: Group Photo	Lunch	Lunch
1pm	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals
2pm
3pm	Tea/Coffee in Foyer	Tea/Coffee in Foyer	Tea/Coffee in Foyer	Tea/Coffee in Foyer	Tea/Coffee in Foyer
3.30	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Close
4pm
5pm
5.30pm	Close	Close	Close	Close
5.30-7.00pm	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	6.30pm onwards Workshop Drinks reception and Dinner

2016 Training

The 2016 training used the UMUI-based practicals at vn8.4.

Time	Monday 4th January	Tuesday 5th January	Wednesday 6th January	Thursday 7th January	Friday 8th January
9am	Registration	Tracer Transport Nigel Wood	Earth-System Modelling Fiona O'Connor	Wet Scavenging Zak Kipling	Experimental Design Paul Young
9.45	Welcome Luke Abraham	Break	Break	Break	Break
10am	Emissions Alex Archibald	Chemical Solvers Oliver Wild Newton's Method	Dry Deposition David Stevenson	Heterogeneous Chemistry Paul Griffiths	Experimental Design Paul Young
10.45	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
11.15	GLOMAP-mode Graham Mann	Photolysis Apostolos Voulgarakis	RADAER Nicolas Bellouin	ACTIVATE Zak Kipling	Experimental Design Paul Young
12noon	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch 12.45 Group Photo in Todd-Hamied meeting room
1pm	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals
2pm
3pm	Tea/Coffee outside ULT	Tea/Coffee outside ULT	Tea/Coffee outside ULT	Tea/Coffee outside ULT	Tea/Coffee outside ULT
3.30	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Close
4pm
5pm
5.30pm	Close	Close	Close	Close
5.30-7.00pm	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	6.30pm onwards Workshop Drinks reception and Dinner

2017 Training

The 2017 training used the Rose-based practicals at vn10.4.

Time	Monday 9th January	Tuesday 10th January	Wednesday 11th January	Thursday 12th January	Friday 13th January
9am	Registration	Tracer Transport Nigel Wood	Earth-System Modelling Fiona O'Connor	Wet Scavenging Colin Johnson	Experimental Design Paul Young
9.45	Welcome Luke Abraham	Break	Break	Break	Break
10am	Emissions Alex Archibald Overhead	Chemical Solvers Oliver Wild Newton's Method	Dry Deposition Gerd Folberth	Heterogeneous Chemistry Paul Griffiths	Experimental Design Paul Young Reforestation: Arneth et al., 2010 and Tian et al., 2016 Megacities: Butler et al., 2012 and Folberth et al., 2012 Ozone recovery: Zeng et al., 2010 and Perlwitz, 2011 Fires: Harris et al., 2016 and Bowman et al., 2009
10.45	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
11.15	GLOMAP-mode Graham Mann' Overhead	Photolysis Apostolos Voulgarakis	RADAER Nicolas Bellouin	ACTIVATE Kirsty Pringle	Experimental Design Paul Young
12noon	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch 12.45 Group Photo in Todd-Hamied meeting room
1pm	Practicals Overview of Tutorials 1-9 Luke Abraham	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals Developing Code Changes Luke Abraham
2pm
3pm	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
3.30	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Close
4pm
5pm
5.30pm	Close	Close	Close	Close
5.30-7.00pm	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	6.30pm onwards Workshop Drinks reception and Dinner

2018 Training

The 2018 training used the Rose-based practicals at vn10.9.

Time	Monday 8th January	Tuesday 9th January	Wednesday 10th January	Thursday 11th January	Friday 12th January
9am	Registration	Tracer Transport Nigel Wood slides video	Earth-System Modelling Fiona O'Connor slides video	Wet Scavenging Colin Johnson slides overhead video	9.30am Model Evaluation Alex Archibald slides overhead video
9.45	Welcome Luke Abraham	Break	Break	Break
10am	Emissions Marcus Koehler slides video	Chemical Solvers Oliver Wild slides video	Dry Deposition Gerd Folberth slides video	Heterogeneous Chemistry Paul Griffiths slides video
10.45	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	11am Tea/Coffee
11.15	GLOMAP-mode Kirsty Pringle slides video	RADAER Nicolas Bellouin slides overhead video	Photolysis Apostolos Voulgarakis slides video	Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Michael Herzog slides video	11.30am Group Photo in Todd-Hamied meeting room
12noon	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch & Posters	Lunch
1pm	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals
2pm
3pm	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
3.30	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Practicals	Close
4pm
5pm
5.30pm	Close	Close	Close	Close
5.30-7.00pm	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	Dinner in Homerton	6.30pm onwards Workshop Drinks reception and Dinner

All videos have been uploaded to the University of Cambridge Streaming Service.

2019 Training

The 2019 training used the Rose-based practicals at vn10.9.

The slides presented can be found here:

• Luke Abraham: Introduction to UKCA

2020 Training

The 2020 training used the Rose-based practicals at vn10.9.

The slides presented can be found here:

• Luke Abraham: Introduction to UKCA

2021 Training

The 2021 training used the Rose-based practicals at vn11.8.

Participants

Google Map showing all UKCA Training participants from all courses run.

• University of Edinburgh, UK
• University of York, UK
• University of Leeds, UK
• University Of Cambridge, UK
• Lancaster University, UK
• University of East Anglia, UK
• University of Reading, UK
• University of Birmingham, UK
• Imperial College London, UK
• University of Hertfordshire, UK
• University of Exeter, UK
• British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
• Met Office, Exeter, UK
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
• CERN, Switzerland
• University of Oxford, UK
• CSIRO - Aspendale, Australia
• University of Sheffield, UK
• Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd, Cambridge, UK
• New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• NIWA, New Zealand
• University of Warsaw, Poland
• Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
• Yonsei University, South Korea
• Harvard University, USA
• University of British Columbia, Canada