Update stratosphere recipe

[KatherineTomkins]

Short description of the diagnostic Remove AutoAssess component dependency from the stratosphere recipe. See https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/cma/browser/autoassess/trunk/autoassess/assessment_areas/stratosphere for the original stratosphere code in AutoAssess.

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[valeriupredoi]

hi @KatherineTomkins great to see this being tackled! Could I ask you a couple things please:

• could you please detail the content of the MOSRS page you are linking in the issue description here, in full, so that other members of the ESMValTool dev community can read what the new code standards/MO changes are, w/o needing a MOSRS account?
• could you please add me as a reviewer to any subsequent Autoassess dev work?

Cheers muchly! :beer:

[valeriupredoi]

sorry forgot to say - please add me and @alistairsellar as reviewers to all Autoassess in ESMValTool-related (that already exists, that is) work :+1:

[KatherineTomkins]

Currently paused to prioritise other work.

[katjaweigel]

Not sure if this is the right place to mention, but I found two small issues with recipe_autoassess_stratosphere.yml:

1) There is a wrong time axis in the QBO plot for model data: The recipe says 1997-2002, but the axis ticks claim the data would start in 1968 This can seen in https://esmvaltool.dkrz.de/shared/esmvaltool/v2.10.0/debug.html, e.g. Figure: https://esmvaltool.dkrz.de/shared/esmvaltool/v2.10.0/recipe_autoassess_stratosphere_20231212_210642/plots/aa_strato/autoassess_strato_test_1/MPI-ESM-MR_vs_MPI-ESM-LR/stratosphere/MPI-ESM-LR_qbo.png Also in the documentation (https://docs.esmvaltool.org/en/latest/recipes/recipe_autoassess_stratosphere.html) the time axis in this figures seems rather unusual. 2) I tried to switch from ERA-Interim to ERA5 and did not succeed, it seemed to be still searching for ERA-Interim at some point I'll try to find out what is wrong there, but not this year anymore :)

[alistairsellar]

Hi @katjaweigel, thanks for spotting these issues. I think that this is a good place to mention it, as it looks to me like the PR (when complete) could solve at least one of these issues. I will see about getting the PR moving again. To help prioritise, do you have an immediate dependency on these plots?

[katjaweigel]

Hi @alistairsellar thanks a lot for your answer! I just started to look into Stratospheric data aiming to better understand gravity wave parametrizations and trying to find out, what ESMValTool can already do.