1. March 2014 NCAS Unified Model Introduction Finale York – March 2014

2. March 2014 UK UM Support through NCAS (NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science) http://cms.ncas.ac.uk Contact current NCAS UM modelling support team Jeff Cole (Rdg), Simon Wilson (Rdg) (50%) Grenville Lister (Rdg), William McGinty (Rdg) Ros Hatcher (Rdg), Annette Osprey (Rdg)) Through the Modelling helpdesk http://cms.ncas.ac.uk/wiki/CmsHelpdesk or through the email address ncas-umsupport@lists.reading.ac.uk

3. March 2014 NCAS provides support for the UM on National HPC facilities training days and user meetings limited support for the UM on local computing facilities documentation and information services support for weather, climate or composition with networks of excellence using the UM computing time on the ARCHER service http://www.archer.ac.uk access to the Met Office/NERC collaboration HPC service MONSooN via PUMA UM development in partnership with UKMO through collaborative projects UKHigem, Earth Simulator Project, CASCADE, GSUM, QUEST…………..

4. March 2014 Next 10 steps for new UM Users HOMEWORK! 1. explore the UMUI 2. use the PUMA service to copy standard jobs and change them to be yours 3. set up userids on HECToR and set up your userid for running the UM (you will need a.profile file) 4. run a standard UM job, ask GL or Jeff Cole for help and advice to achieve this 5. produce a plot of your favourite field to test out your understanding of file formats and local graphics packages

5. March 2014 6.learn about the code maintenance tool if you plan to change the model or try the FCM tutorial, contact Rosalyn Hatcher (r.s.hatcher@reading.ac.uk) 7.find a UM job which is similar to the one you want to run and explore it’s options and settings in the UMUI 8.play with different STASH settings to make sure you can output what you need for your job 9.look at the UM source code browser (on the NCAS CMS web pages) to look at the actual UM Fortran code 10. READ the UM User Guide available on the NCAS CMS web site