A partnership between the National Oceanography Centre, Met Office and British Antarctic Survey, and Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling.
The Joint Marine Modelling Programme (JMMP) provides world-class and easily accessible national capability, ocean modelling infrastructure and configurations to support the UK’s scientific research and operational prediction systems for ocean, weather and climate.
Model configurations are underpinned by the Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) framework. JMMP works closely with the NEMO consortium to develop the underpinning model capability.
The JMMP has three themes: Global Ocean, Coastal Ocean and Sea Ice.
What is the NOC's role?
The NOC is working across the partnership to co-develop the research configurations, which when mature are operationalised by the Met Office. The research configurations are developed to address: (1) scientific questions (e.g. impact under a changing climate, or improved representation of physical processes); (2) improved numerical accuracy of key variables (e.g, ocean temperature); and (3) codebase updates to align with the NEMO consortium.
Jeff Polton: JMMP management committee and Coastal Ocean Theme Lead.
Met Office
British Antarctic Survey
National Oceanography Centre
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling.
Aim
The aim of the project is to efficiently align research and operational needs. The research side of the partnership helps expedite the pull through of cutting-edge research into operational outcomes. The operational side of the partnership helps target research toward priority areas of strategic need.
We maintain a critical mass of national capability expertise to maintain evolving UK strategic needs in the maritime sector; ii) participate in international partnerships and projects with relocatable expertise.
Global Ocean and Sea Ice
At the NOC global ocean and Sea Ice themes actively develops and maintains global ocean physics configurations of NEMO at 1/4 degree and 1/12 degree resolutions. These configurations use the sea ice model, SI3.
Coastal Ocean
At the NOC the Coastal Ocean theme actively develops and maintains regional physics configurations of NEMO, covering the Northwest European seas, at 7km and 1.5km horizontal resolution.
At the NOC the Coastal Ocean theme actively engages with Climate Centre Research Singapore to support their development of Southeast Asia regional configurations and national capability infrastructure to support regional needs.
Publications
Storkey, David; Blaker, Adam 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5454-0131; Mathiot, Pierre; Megann, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-6317; Aksenov, Yevgeny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-3434; Blockley, Edward W.; Calvert, Daley; Graham, Tim; Hewitt, Helene T.; Hyder, Patrick; Kuhlbrodt, Till; Rae, Jamie G.L.; Sinha, Bablu.
2018
UK Global Ocean GO6 and GO7: a traceable hierarchy of model resolutions.
Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (8).
3187-3213.
10.5194/gmd-11-3187-2018
2018
Article
Tonani, Marina; Sykes, Peter; King, Robert R.; McConnell, Niall; Péquignet, Anne-Christine; O'Dea, Enda; Graham, Jennifer A.; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Siddorn, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8868.
2019
The impact of a new high-resolution ocean model on the Met Office North-West European Shelf forecasting system.
Ocean Science, 15 (4).
1133-1158.
10.5194/os-15-1133-2019
2019
Article
Graham, Jennifer A.; O'Dea, Enda; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Polton, Jeffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Hewitt, Helene T.; Furner, Rachel; Guihou, Karen; Brereton, Ashley; Arnold, Alex; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Castillo Sanchez, Juan Manuel; Mayorga Adame, Claudia Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385.
2018
AMM15: a new high-resolution NEMO configuration for operational simulation of the European north-west shelf.
Geoscientific Model Development, 11 (2).
681-696.
10.5194/gmd-11-681-2018
2018
Article
Guihou, K.; Polton, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Harle, J.; Wakelin, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; O'Dea, E.; Holt, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477.
2018
Kilometric scale modeling of the North West European shelf seas: exploring the spatial and temporal variability of internal tides.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (1).
668-707.
10.1002/2017JC012960
2018
Article
Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Huthnance, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-2896; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; O’Dea, Enda; Harle, James; Yool, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Artioli, Yuri; Blackford, Jerry; Siddorn, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8868; Inall, Mark.
2018
Climate-driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean can greatly reduce the circulation of the North Sea.
Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (21).
11,827-11,836.
10.1029/2018GL078878
2018
Article
Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250; Harle, James; Holt, Jason ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Katavouta, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1587-4996; Partridge, Dale; Jardine, Jenny; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Rulent, Julia; Wise, Anthony; Hutchinson, Katherine; Byrne, David; Bruciaferri, Diego; O'Dea, Enda; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Mathiot, Pierre; Coward, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9111-7700; Yool, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Palmieri, Julien ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-5243; Lessin, Gennadi; Mayorga-Adame, Gabriela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8707-9385; Le Guennec, Valerie; Arnold, Alex; Rousset, Clement.
2023
Reproducible and relocatable regional ocean modelling: Fundamentals and practices.
Geoscientific Model Development.
10.5194/gmd-2022-217
2023
Article
Wise, Anthony; Harle, James; Bruciaferri, Diego; O’Dea, Enda; Polton, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250.
2021
The effect of vertical coordinates on the accuracy of a shelf sea model.
Ocean Modelling, 170.
101935.
10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101935
2021
Article
Luneva, Maria V.; Wakelin, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-2693; Holt, Jason T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-8477; Inall, Mark E.; Kozlov, Igor E.; Palmer, Matthew R.; Toberman, Matthew; Zubkova, Evgenia V.; Polton, Jeff A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-5250.
2019
Challenging vertical turbulence mixing schemes in a tidally energetic environment: 1. 3‐D shelf‐sea model assessment.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124 (8).
6360-6387.
10.1029/2018JC014307
2019
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