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BBC NEWS | In Depth | RUC Reform | The RUC: Lauded and condemned (699 words) |
 | That division over the force was brought into sharp focus when in the Spring of 2000, The Queen awarded the RUC the George Cross, the highest civilian medal - and the same medal presented to Malta after it survived seige at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War. |
| The RUC was disarmed and a new rank structure was introduced. |
| Manpower was gradually increased to 8,500 for the RUC and another 5,000 for the reserve. |
| RUC variables (3250 words) |
| It evolves in the RUC 1-h cycle, increasing from accumulation from the explicit snowfall in the RUC from the cloud microphysics, and decreasing from melting depending on an energy budget in the snow layer in the RUC model. |
| As of early January 1998, the maximum depth in the RUC domain was 2 meters over the mountains of British Columbia, equivalent to 0.8 meters of liquid water using the 2.5 - 1 ratio. |
| There are 6 levels in the RUC land-surface model, extending down to 3 m deep, but the field shown is for the top 2 cm of soil only, so this field responds quickly to recent precipitation or surface drying and may not be indicative of deep soil moisture. |
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