Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The UKC2 regional coupled environmental prediction system
Huw W. Lewis
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Juan Manuel Castillo Sanchez
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Jennifer Graham
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Andrew Saulter
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Jorge Bornemann
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Alex Arnold
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Joachim Fallmann
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Chris Harris
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
David Pearson
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Steven Ramsdale
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Alberto Martínez-de la Torre
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Lucy Bricheno
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK
Eleanor Blyth
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Victoria A. Bell
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Helen Davies
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Toby R. Marthews
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Clare O'Neill
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Heather Rumbold
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Enda O'Dea
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Ashley Brereton
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK
Karen Guihou
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK
Adrian Hines
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Momme Butenschon
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, PL1 2LP, UK
Simon J. Dadson
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK
Tamzin Palmer
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Jason Holt
National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK
Nick Reynard
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Martin Best
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
John Edwards
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
John Siddorn
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Data sets
CEH CEH Land Cover Map https://eip.ceh.ac.uk/lcm/lcmdata
Model code and software
WAVEWATCH III model NOAA http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/
WAVEWATCH III model code distribution NOAA http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/wavewatch/distribution
source code Met Office https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/utils/browser/ukeputils/trunk/gmd-2017-110
Short summary
In the real world the atmosphere, oceans and land surface are closely interconnected, and yet prediction systems tend to treat them in isolation. Those feedbacks are often illustrated in natural hazards, such as when strong winds lead to large waves and coastal damage, or when prolonged rainfall leads to saturated ground and high flowing rivers. For the first time, we have attempted to represent some of the feedbacks between sky, sea and land within a high-resolution forecast system for the UK.
In the real world the atmosphere, oceans and land surface are closely interconnected, and yet...