Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1-2018
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03 Jan 2018
Model description paper | Highlight paper |  | 03 Jan 2018

The UKC2 regional coupled environmental prediction system

Huw W. Lewis, Juan Manuel Castillo Sanchez, Jennifer Graham, Andrew Saulter, Jorge Bornemann, Alex Arnold, Joachim Fallmann, Chris Harris, David Pearson, Steven Ramsdale, Alberto Martínez-de la Torre, Lucy Bricheno, Eleanor Blyth, Victoria A. Bell, Helen Davies, Toby R. Marthews, Clare O'Neill, Heather Rumbold, Enda O'Dea, Ashley Brereton, Karen Guihou, Adrian Hines, Momme Butenschon, Simon J. Dadson, Tamzin Palmer, Jason Holt, Nick Reynard, Martin Best, John Edwards, and John Siddorn

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

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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.