Unified Model

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The Unified Model is the atmospheric component of ACCESS, developed by the UK's Met Office. The Centre of Excellence sublicences the UM from CAWCR, our licence allows us to run the UM at NCI only. To run the UM you will first need an NCI account, then ask for connection to the ACCESS group through NCI's account website.

The ACCESS climate models are based on version 7.3 of the UM, most Australian university research uses this version. The Bureau makes use of the more recent version 7.8 for forecasting, and is evaluating moving to version 8.2. These are the primary versions supported at NCI, other versions are available but may not be quite as well tested. Different versions include changed science configurations, for details see the release notes.

Getting Started

The UM is configured through a graphical interface, which is run from the server accessdev.nci.org.au. See Setting up the environment for how to connect.

UM 10 / Global Atmosphere / ACCESS 2.x

The current version of the Unified Model is available from the Met Office's repository site https://code.metoffice.gov.uk.

ARCCSS researchers need to email climate_help@nci.org.au to request an account on the Met Office server.

Supported Experiments

Unsupported Experiments

This list contains Models and Experiments that are currently adapted for NCI and/or developed, but are not yet operational for scientific use at ARCCSS

Links & More Information

UM 7.3 / ACCESS 1.x

The ACCESS climate model as used in CMIP5 uses model version 7.3. This version of the model uses the older `UMUI` user interface

Supported Experiments

Links & More Information

Guides

Assorted information on running the UM and available job configurations is listed in the sections below. Feel free to email [| climate_help@nci.org.au] if you have any difficulties using the UM or suggestions for how we can make using the UM simpler.

Starting Up

Run Types

Common Errors

If a run fails, search for 'UM ERROR' in the .leave file to see what went wrong. Common issues are listed here

Job Input

Job Output

Modifying the UM

Informative

Work in progress

Resources