Running the Met Office NAME dispersion model on the JASMIN computing platform: A new community tool and trajectory service

The Met Office has traditionally distributed the NAME atmospheric dispersion model and supporting meteorological data to a number of external organisations. CEDA’s new JASMIN platform enables consolidation of resources by providing a centralised and supported NAME community service. Wider exploitation of the model is planned along with a web-tool for running historic forward and backward trajectories and a dataset of NAME outputs including trajectory plots. NCAS scientists can exploit this service for large scale batch runs supporting field campaigns as well as individual research applications.