The Flexible Modelling Framework for the Met Office Unified Model (Flex-UM, using UM 12.0 release)

Maher, Penelope; Earnshaw, Paul

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1177-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1177-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1177-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 3

Model description paper

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09 Feb 2022

Model description paper |

| 09 Feb 2022

The Flexible Modelling Framework for the Met Office Unified Model (Flex-UM, using UM 12.0 release)

Penelope Maher and Paul Earnshaw

Data sets

Flex-UM and GA7.0 data for Flex-UM manuscript (Maher and Earnshaw 2021) Penelope Maher https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700372

Isca model data for Flex-UM manuscript (Maher and Earnshaw 2021) Penelope Maher https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5017471

Model code and software

Postprocessing and plotting routines for Flex-UM manuscript (Maher and Earnshaw 2021) Penelope Maher https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700633

Short summary

Climate models do a pretty good job. But they are far from perfect. Fixing these imperfections is really hard because the models are complicated. One way to make progress is to create simpler models: think impressionism rather than realism in the art world. We changed the Met Office model to be intentionally simple and it still does a pretty good job. This will help to identify sources of model imperfections, develop new methods and improve our understanding of how the climate works.