Met Office and Hadley Centre Collaboration
Summary
We are now in our 10th project/consultancy with the Met Office and Hadley Centre spanning over 12 years. We are currently providing consultancy to the Met Office/Hadley Centre (through Manchester informatics Ltd) advising them on all aspects of their next generation software architecture, termed Flume. Flume has completed its design phase and is now in its implementation phase.
Consultants
Rupert FordGraham Riley
Publications
- Flume related documents
- R. W. Ford, P. M. Burton, OpenMP in the Physics Portion of the Met Office Model to appear in Proceedings of the ninth ECMWF workshop on the use of parallel processors in meteorology, November 2000.
- J. M. Bull, R. W. Ford, T. L. Freeman, D. J. Hancock, A Theoretical Investigation of Feedback Guided Dynamic Loop Scheduling Proceedings of Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1999.
- R. W. Ford, P. M. Burton, Load Balancing Physics Routines Proceedings of the eighth ECMWF workshop on the use of parallel processors in meteorology, November 1998.
- P. M. Burton, R. W. Ford, D. Salmond Investigation and Implementation of a number of different load balancing strategies in the UKMO's Unified Model in Proceedings of the 4th European SGI/Cray MPP Workshop, Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching/Munich, Germany, September 1998.
- J. M. Bull, R. W. Ford and A. Dickinson, A Feedback Based Load Balance Algorithm for Physics Routines in NWP, Proceedings of Seventh ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, (G.-R. Hoffman and N. Kreitz, eds.), World Scientific, pp. 239-249. World Scientific.
- R. W. Ford, D. F. Snelling Vector and Cache Performance of OCCAM, Proceedings of Seventh ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology, (G.-R. Hoffman and N. Kreitz, eds.), World Scientific, pp. 198-208.
- R. W. Ford, J. M. Bull, Slides of Dynamic Load Balancing in the UKMO's Unified Model, Presented at the Workshop on Dynamic Load Balancing on MPP Systems Daresbury U.K., November 1995.
- R. W. Ford, A. Nisbet, J. M. Bull User Level VSM Optimisation and its Application, in Proceedings of PARA95, Lecture Notes in Computer Science no. 1041, 1995. pp. 223-232 August 1995.
- R. Ford, D. Snelling, A. Dickinson, Dynamic Memory Management in a Parallel Implementation of an Operational Weather Forecasting Model , Proceedings of the the Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, San Francisco, 15-17 February 1995. Copyright SIAM.
- R. Ford, D. Snelling, A. Dickinson, Controlling Cache Use, Load Balance and Vector Length in the UM , in Proceedings of the 6th ECMWF Workshop on the use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology 21-25 November 1994. Copyright World Scientific.
- A. Dickinson, R. Ford, D. Snelling, Experiences Porting The Unified Model to the KSR1, in Proceedings of the 5th ECMWF Workshop on the Use of Parallel Processors in Meteorology November 1992. Copyright World Scientific.
- R. W. Ford, Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF CNC Technical Report, December 1991, CNC/1991/045
Some Interesting Weather info
- The Meteorological Office
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
- World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
- Royal Meteorological Society
- British Atmospheric Data Centre
- BBC Latest forecast
- EuMetSat
- Dundee University NOAA satellite images
- University of Illinois (The Daily Planet)
Some Interesting phenomena
- The green flash
- The moon illusion
- Novaya Zemlya effect and a simple explanation
- Crepuscular rays
- Anti-crepuscular rays
- Ball lightning
- i An unusual ring-shaped cloud
- Jon Kahl's Weather Image Gallery
Previous researchers
Dave SnellingThis page is maintained by Rupert Ford