4. Science Configurations#
This module covers how science configurations are developed, configured and run within the Momentum® Framework.
In this module you will learn about…
what a science configuration is and why released, versioned configurations are central to reproducible prediction and projection systems;
how atmosphere, land, ocean, and sea-ice component models are combined in global and regional Momentum modelling systems;
how global coupled and regional atmosphere-land configurations are developed, evaluated, frozen, and released;
how Rose, Cylc, MOSRS, and related workflow tools support configuration management, model runs, and experiment traceability;
which evaluation tools and evidence are used to assess science configuration performance across weather and climate applications;
how practical experiments are set up, modified, run, and analysed for global and limited-area configurations.
At the end of this module you should be able to…
explain the purpose of science configurations and how they support seamless modelling across different systems and timescales;
distinguish between global coupled, global atmosphere-land, global ocean-sea-ice, and regional atmosphere-land configurations;
describe the main stages of the science configuration development and evaluation cycle;
identify the tools and repositories used to find, edit, run, and document configuration workflows;
make simple workflow or configuration changes using Rose and Cylc and understand how those changes affect a model experiment;
run and navigate example global and regional workflows, inspect their outputs, and use Python and Iris to produce basic analysis plots.