ACCESS NRI - community input for major science priorities over next 10 years

Atmosphere Working Group
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Hello Atmosphere Working Group,

The ACCESS-NRI Scientific Advisory Council will be meeting in September to begin drafting a roadmap for the next 10 years.

If you would like to contribute your ideas for what this should look like please reply to this or email Sonya/Yi directly. sonya.fiddes@utas.edu.au, yi.huang4@unimelb.edu.au

Things to think about:

  • Science capabilities
  • Technical capabilities
  • User capabilities
  • Community capabilities
  • Infrastructure/software landscape
  • Govt. priorities

Looking forward to seeing what you think!

Sonya & Yi

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  • transition of ACCESS-family models from UM to LFric.
    When the change to LFric-based models is made by the Met Office, there will be no new UM-based scientific development, and UM support will be phased out.
  • the growing need for data storage and management.
  • the coming-together of traditionally separated scientific communities as global modelling approaches the km-scale domain of regional modelling.
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some possibilities to consider, non-exhaustive!

  • becoming closer to UK model releases in terms of codebase. it is still very difficult to collaborate directly with universities, UKMO etc when codebases are so far apart
  • genuine ESM, i.e. inclusion of atmospheric composition, marine biogeochemistry, terrestrial biogenic emissions etc
  • adoption of atmospheric composition capability in LFRic
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Preparation for the ML revolution that has arrived. This could include exploration of:

  • New model types/structures to support (i.e. hybrid models)
  • Infrastructure to provide data for training or fine-tuning ML models, especially as prediction moves to finer scales
  • New, data-driven reanalysis and data assimilation approaches
  • ML-based data compression to relieve our storage woes
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Thanks to everyone who has shared ideas and feedback so far. We (Sonya Fiddes, Bethan White, Andrew Brown and I) have put together a draft plan that incorporates the feedback we’ve received to date. You can find the draft plan below.

ACCESS roadmap - Atmosphere v2.pdf (79.4 KB)

We’d really welcome any further feedback, suggestions or things you think we’ve missed before we finalise our input to the Scientific Advisory Committee. If possible, please share any comments or email Sonya/Yi by Tuesday 8 September.

Many thanks again for your input!

Sonya & Yi