Minutes of the code management group meeting 14/02/2014

UKCA Code Management Meeting, 14 February 2014 (tele-conference).

Participants:
Met Office: Nick Savage (NS), Mohit Dalvi (MD), Jane Mulcahy (JM), Fiona O'Connor (FC), Colin Johnson(CJ)
Leeds: Graham Mann (GM), Sandip Dhomse
Cambridge: Luke Abraham (LA)
Oxford: Zak Kipling (ZK)

Summary of action points arising in the meeting

NS Carried forward from last meeting. Add information on bug fixes and enhancements lodged between 8.2 and 8.4
FOC Carried forward from last meeting. Sensitivity test on importance of fixed CH4
GM, Carried forward from last meeting. Add information on MODE bug fix branches to UKCA wiki bugfixes page.
FOC Create bug fix branch for lodging at 9.1 including MGLY+OH reaction rate, humidity bug in ACTIVATE, sedimentation bug fix, H2O calculation when passed into ASAD, Fastj-X bug fix.
NS In discussion with Fiona and Mohit, come up with a revised proposal on how to manage reporting, fixing and lodging of bug fixes.
CJ and FOC circulate plots of radical concentrations in stratosphere showing odd banded structure, including version with different photolysis scheme options
NS to add to this wiki a short explanation of the changes to activation of UKCA tracers at 9.0
NS ensure all bug fixes at 9.0 are available at earlier UM versions where needed both for NCAS and Met Office.
GM check 8.4 versus 7.3 GLOMAP-mode code
LA prepare talk on philosophy of diagnostic code for meeting in Exeter on 2nd April
NS book room for meeting on diagnostics 2nd April, (pending Luke advising of travel plans)
CJ and GM discuss way forward on aerosol chemistry and how to handle inconsistencies between chemistry schemes
JM keep up dialog on sedimentation between Leeds and Met Office.
JM check up on status of checks for incorrect order of fields in 3D diagnostics and report any relevant UMUI switches to Oxford
MD To ask Monsoon User Group for graphical browsers of disk usage on Monsoon
NS Set up Doodle pool for late March for next CMG telecon

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