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The Met Office weather and climate prediction model has recently upgraded its dynamical core—the model component that solves the equations of dynamics and thermodynamics on explicitly resolved scales. Designing, building, and testing the new dynamical core, known as ENDGame, took over 10 years, and was underpinned by a great deal of mathematical analysis. This chapter outlines some of the author’s mathematical contributions to the design of ENDGame, through his collaboration with the Met Office, and summarizes some of the positive impacts of the new dynamical core.
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The work summarized here represents a tiny fraction of that involved in developing a dynamical core. The real credit must go to the members (past and present) of the Met Office Dynamics Research group: Nigel Wood, Tom Allen, Terry Davies, Michail Diamantakis, Markus Gross, Tom Melvin, Chris Smith, Andrew Staniforth, Simon Vosper, Andy White, and Mohamed Zerroukat. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to collaborate with them.
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Thuburn, J. (2016). ENDGame: The New Dynamical Core of the Met Office Weather and Climate Prediction Model. In: Aston, P., Mulholland, A., Tant, K. (eds) UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25454-8_4
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