The first Met Office Unified Model–JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL1

Bush, Mike; Allen, Tom; Bain, Caroline; Boutle, Ian; Edwards, John; Finnenkoetter, Anke; Franklin, Charmaine; Hanley, Kirsty; Lean, Humphrey; Lock, Adrian; Manners, James; Mittermaier, Marion; Morcrette, Cyril; North, Rachel; Petch, Jon; Short, Chris; Vosper, Simon; Walters, David; Webster, Stuart; Weeks, Mark; Wilkinson, Jonathan; Wood, Nigel; Zerroukat, Mohamed

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1999-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1999-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1999-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

Model description paper

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21 Apr 2020

Model description paper |

| 21 Apr 2020

The first Met Office Unified Model–JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL1

Mike Bush, Tom Allen, Caroline Bain, Ian Boutle, John Edwards, Anke Finnenkoetter, Charmaine Franklin, Kirsty Hanley, Humphrey Lean, Adrian Lock, James Manners, Marion Mittermaier, Cyril Morcrette, Rachel North, Jon Petch, Chris Short, Simon Vosper, David Walters, Stuart Webster, Mark Weeks, Jonathan Wilkinson, Nigel Wood, and Mohamed Zerroukat

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Executive Editor Comment on gmd-2019-130', Astrid Kerkweg, 01 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Version numbers for UM and JULES, for which the configuration RAL1 fully applies.', Mike Bush, 09 Jul 2019
RC1: 'Review of "The first Met Office Unified Model/JULES Regional Atmosphere and Land configuration, RAL1"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Mike Bush, 24 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review of "The first Met Office Unified Model/JULES REgional Atmosphere and Land Configuration, RAL1"', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Sep 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Mike Bush, 25 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Mike Bush on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (29 Oct 2019) by Jatin Kala

AR by Mike Bush on behalf of the Authors (12 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this paper we define the first Regional Atmosphere and Land (RAL) science configuration for kilometre-scale modelling using the Unified Model (UM) as the basis for the atmosphere and the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) for the land. RAL1 defines the science configuration of the dynamics and physics schemes of the atmosphere and land. This configuration will provide a model baseline for any future weather or climate model developments to be described against.