Load balancing our models

All runs are for one month

UKESM N96 ORCA1

We make ocean much faster than atmosphere, so that atmosphere shouldn't have to wait for ocean.

The aim to minimise the light green and blue area.

UKESM N216 ORCA025

Similar resources for atmosphere and ocean.

UKESM-hybrid AMIP N216 N96

For a moderate speed, Snr requires about 50% more resources than Jnr. Dark pink line shows the time to send 48 3D fields every hour.

UKESM-hybrid N216 N96 ORCA025 without MEDUSA

The coupling overhead is greater with 3 models