cc: "'Clare Goodess'" <C.Goodess@uea.ac.uk>, "'Phil Jones'" <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:40:23 +0100
from: "Colin Harpham" <c.harpham@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: SCORCHIO
to: "'C G Kilsby'" <c.g.kilsby@newcastle.ac.uk>, "'vassilis glenis'" <vassilis.glenis@gmail.com>

   Chris


   We will be finalizing the grid cells next week (we also need to consider the Tyndal cities
   London work). The change factors are not available yet because of the slow run time of the
   RCM being run specifically aimed at emulating the heat island effect. Consequently my
   initial runs will be for the control period to conduct some sensitivity analysis and make
   comparisons with what little obs data we have.


   "We have resolved the "crap parameter" problem" - good that means the likes of Aldergrove
   will now run OK(?), could you send me the latest executable to run with the stand alone
   please.

   Actually I was referring to the earwig cumulative predictor variable problem I came across,
   email of 28/05/08 reproduced here:


   If you select more than one run then:

   First run and the following predictors are passed (Ringway cell, these look sensible):

   382500 382500 72 68

   2nd

   765000 765000 144 136

   3rd

   1147500 1147500 216 204


   10th

   3442500 3442500 648 612


   Spot the pattern? It is accumulating the original predictor values each time.

   By the 3^rd run the cru wgen keels over.


   I think I have the latest version of earwig, the setup exe is v2_1.


   Cheers

   Colin

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   From: C G Kilsby [mailto:c.g.kilsby@newcastle.ac.uk]
   Sent: 13 June 2008 11:45
   To: Colin Harpham; vassilis glenis
   Cc: Clare Goodess; Phil Jones
   Subject: RE: SCORCHIO


   Colin


   need to talk over with Vas: in principle the latest "web" version we have here should do
   this.

   Can you define exactly what change factors/cells are needed?


   We have resolved the "crap parameter" problem: a new fitting procedure implemented, and we
   can now plot maps of how good the fits are (final values of objective function).


   Chris



   ___________________________________________________________________________________________

     From: Colin Harpham [mailto:c.harpham@uea.ac.uk]
     Sent: 13 June 2008 11:33
     To: C G Kilsby; vassilis glenis
     Cc: Clare Goodess; Phil Jones
     Subject: SCORCHIO

     Hi Chris,


     I need to get some preliminary work done on SCORCHIO (v. soon), due to the lack of
     observational data the only solution is to take a gridded approach. My problem is
     generating the precip since I will not be able to use the stand alone rainsim version. I
     could do some initial daily control runs using earwig, however there is the problem I
     mentioned in my email of 28 May - has this been resolved? Also when I manually select
     more than a few individual cells the GUI crashes - just disappears from the screen.


     Ideally a stand alone UKCIP08 version that perhaps just takes the grid coordinates and
     change factors as arguments, (i.e. no graphical interface) would do the trick (I would
     then be able to set up a batch run). Can the core wgen be easily isolated?


     Cheers

     Colin
