Code management group minutes 24Oct2012

UKCA Code Management Meeting, 24th October 2012 (tele-conference).

Participants:
Met Office: Nick Savage (NS), Colin Johnson (CJ), Mohit Dalvi (MD)
Cambridge : Alex Archibald (AA)
Leeds : Graham Mann (GM)
Oxford : Zak Kipling (ZK)

Not present but on CMG; Sandip Dhomse (Leeds, SD), Luke Abraham (Cambridge, LA), Paul Telford (Cambridge, PT)

Summary of action points arising in the meeting

• Carried forward:LA to check admin on UKCA email lists. NS to take this forward.
• NS to circulate list of Somewhen tickets on UKCA
• CJ to circulate provisional list of UKCA configurations at/ post UM8.4
• ZK to request Philip to circulate information/ updates on JASMIN
• MD to circulate link for external release of Iris postprocessing package (Offline discussion- will now be done by NS with more info on UKCA - Iris experience)
• CJ/MD to port a UM8.2 TropIsop+MODE job to PUMA including latest improvements/ fixes.
• NS to set-up doodle poll for next CMG

Status of previous Actions

• GM to circulate minutes for approval and then send round full UKCA group. Done
• GM to email out to gather info for science plan ahead of 11th Oct UKCA meeting. Most groups have responded. GM will collate into document by October end
• LA to check admin on email lists & add extra person(s?)to cover whilst he is on leave Carried forward
• NS to update on rationalisation of tracers at next meeting. Unused tracer removed in UM8.3. Will need to account for nitrate, seasalt, Na/Cl tracers in future
• NS to circulate full ticket list for v8.4 code-freeze and put on PUMA UKCA Trac. Done. somewhen tickets to be circulated
• NS to update on additional resource for Gmode nitrate implementation & testing. Request sent to Met Office/ NERC Exec, may be considered in relation to next ESM
• MD to contact SD for other required bits of code/obs. Aim still to put together post-processing package by end Sept. Check again on GM IDL code and contact GM if still problem. Scripts from Alex and Fiona now being linked as package. Aerosol/ AEROCOM scripts resource-demanding and will need to be optimised, even converted to work from PP files. Targeted for November.
• NS to circulate doodle poll for date of next CMG meeting around 25th Oct. Done
• LA/PT, MD & GM to update standard release UKCA aerosol jobs in next few weeks. UM8.2 StratTrop job now avilable on MONSooN, TropIsop+MODE being transferred. UM7.3 Aerosol+RADAER+ACTIVATE begin tested. Actual science configuration will now be decided by the UKCA Board
• NS to add “Tips & Tricks” page off front page of UKCA website. Done