Minutes of the code management group meeting 26/06/2014
From UKCA
UKCA Code Management Meeting, 26 June 2014 (tele-conference)
Participants:
Met Office: Nick Savage (NS), Mohit Dalvi (MD), Colin Johnson(CJ), Fiona O'Connor (FC)
Leeds: Graham Mann (GM)
Cambridge: Luke Abraham (LA), Alex Archibald (AA)
Apologies:
Oxford: Zak Kipling (ZK)
Met Office: Jane Mulcahy (JM)
Summary of actions
Actions from last meeting
- FOC Sensitivity test on importance of fixed CH4. Still having stability problems. Not due to the top boundary condition code. Ongoing.
- FOC Create bug fix branch for lodging at 9.1. Lodged.
- 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 Carried forward from last meeting. ensure all bug fixes at 9.0 are available at earlier UM versions where needed both for NCAS and Met Office.
- GM Carried forward from last meeting. check 8.4 versus 7.3 GLOMAP-mode code and report any bug fixes to Mohit
- LA Carried forward from last meeting. prepare talk on philosophy of diagnostic code for meeting in Exeter on 2nd April
- CJ and GM Carried forward from last meeting. discuss way forward on aerosol chemistry and how to handle inconsistencies between chemistry schemes (CHET vs CHEST)
- JM keep up dialog on sedimentation between Leeds and Met Office. Ongoing
- JM Carried forward from last meeting.check up on status of checks for incorrect order of fields in 3D diagnostics and report any relevant information to all.
- NS Circulate updated version of proposal on how to manage reporting, fixing and lodging of bug fixes including milestones.
- NS Get GM and LA access to the ukca_bugs email box
- NS Produce draft page on release jobs (CHEST+aerosol, CHET+aerosol) with sufficient cavaets and ciculate.
- ZK to circulate more details of failures with AEROCOM jobs. Issues resolved - was due to running 2010 without setting trace gas concentrations for 2011.