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Sci/Tech Reviewer: @mo-claudiosanchez
Code Reviewer: @oakleybrunt

This ticket applies a handful of simple fixes to issues in stochastic physics:

  1. It picks up the fixed Wtheta -> W0 kernel from: Fix averaging kernel used in stochastic physics filter lfric_core#222
  2. Ensures that the forcing pattern is applied appropriately at W3 and Wtheta points, by passing a new level_offset argument to stph_fp_main_alg
  3. Normalises the shifted on wavenumbers in the same way as the comparative UM code: https://github.com/MetOffice/um/blob/main/src/atmosphere/stochastic_physics/stph_skeb2-stph_skeb2.F90#L1341

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Test Suite Results - lfric_apps - stoch_phys_fixes/run4

Suite Information

Item Value
Suite Name stoch_phys_fixes/run4
Suite User thomas.bendall
Workflow Start 2026-01-16T13:37:13
Groups Run all
Dependency Reference Main Like
casim MetOffice/casim@2025.12.1 True
jules MetOffice/jules@2025.12.1 True
lfric_apps tommbendall/lfric_apps@TBendall/StochPhysFixes False
lfric_core tommbendall/lfric_core@TBendall/FixW0WthFilter True
moci MetOffice/moci@2025.12.1 True
SimSys_Scripts MetOffice/SimSys_Scripts@2025.12.1 True
socrates MetOffice/socrates@2025.12.1 True
socrates-spectral MetOffice/socrates-spectral@2025.12.1 True
ukca MetOffice/ukca@2025.12.1 True

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✅ succeeded tasks - 1456

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@github-actions github-actions bot added the cla-signed The CLA has been signed as part of this PR - added by GA label Jan 15, 2026
@tommbendall tommbendall added bug Something isn't working Linked Core This PR is linked to a MetOffice/lfric_core PR KGO This PR contains changes to KGO labels Jan 15, 2026
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Hi Tom,

I have started to try to find my way about reviewing the LFRIC ticket. I have got some preliminary questions:

  1. Do we have a diagram of LFRIC staggered vertical grid to understand why SKEB levels need to be subtracted by one and added the offset for the vertical phasing?
  2. Does the doxygen documentation include variable arguments, if that is the case, does it pick up the change in the "stph_fp_main_alg" argument when including "level_offset"?
  3. Which tasks of the all test in ⁠stoch_phys_fixed/run4 include stochastic physics? Is there a twin run without it where timings can be compared?

Thanks!

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