UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorials: Things to know before you start the vn10.4 practicals

UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorials at vn10.4

You will need to have the details of your PUMA and ARCHER accounts to hand.

Before you begin the UKCA Tutorials

These tutorials assume that you are familiar with FCM, and training on this can be found here:

http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/wiki/Fcm

The UM FCM tutorial that is linked from this page uses the old user interface (the "UMUI"), so will be less relevant here.

You should also familiarise yourself with Rose & Cylc, and more information on these can be found here:

http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/wiki/RoseCylc

The Met Office provide some on-line UM specific Rose training here:

https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/doc/um/latest/um-training/index.html

Also, if you do not have a PUMA or ARCHER account, you can use the Met Office provided Virtual Machine to run the VM. You should follow the instructions here (you will need the Ubuntu 15.10 image with 3GB of RAM)

https://github.com/metomi/metomi-vms

before following the instructions here to get the UM working.

https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/um/wiki/VirtualMachine

It will soon be possible to run a simple UKCA suite in the VM, but this requires at least 6GB of RAM to run successfully.

UKCA Training Suite

To set-up using the UM with Rose & Cylc correctly, go to

• http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/documents/training/November2016/UM_practicals/getting-setup.html

and follow the instructions from Section 2.2 onwards if you are using Linux/Mac (after opening a terminal).

Note: when entering MOSRS password, a rose window will open behind everything all your other windows. You will also need to enter your username here to complete the process.

When you have completed this, you should launch the Rose browser by typing

rosie go &

and there you should search for suite u-ai071 and make a copy of it.

You should not use this UKCA Tutoral suite for scientific studies. It is designed to be used as a training aid.