The skillshare sessions are informal meetings held every week or fortnight, where we discuss a topic of interest, generally (but not necessarily) related to software/hardware we use in our daily jobs at ACCESS-NRI.
The Skillshare sessions are an ACCESS-NRI internal initiative, but anyone in the community is welcome to join and learn new things!
Just remember the sessions are intended to be informal and collegial.
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You don’t have to be the potential presenter of the topics you add. They can be either topics you are interested about, or topic you would like to present.
If you would like to volunteer for any topic, please add a comment under the respective topic:
At the end of each skillshare session, there will be a few minutes for everyone to cast their votes (in case they still haven’t done so).
Then, the most voted topic is selected (and matched with a presenter) for the upcoming “empty” session.
Each new session will be decided 2 sessions in advance, so that every presenter has 2 sessions to prepare for their presentation. Example: Last session was session0. In today’s session (session1) we have discussed topic 1. Next session (session2) has already been decided (at the end of session0). We will now select the topic/presenter for session3….
A complex topic might be divided into multiple parts. If the topic is chosen as most voted, the votes are reset and ‘part2’ will be added to it for the next round of votes…
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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Basics of land surface modelling
This will present the basics of what the land surface models need to represent in the climate models. It will also discuss some of the difficulties faced.
Asking someone from Australian BioCommons (https://www.biocommons.org.au/) to come chat about their experiences in the visible software space (and training).
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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FAIR data: what does it stand for? What does it mean for climate data
When you start working with published datasets, you will hear the terms FAIR data or FAIR principles. This is to explain what these principles stand for and what we use in climate science to get our data FAIR.
MartinDix
(Martin Dix ACCESS-NRI Associate Director for Model Development)
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Possible topics for a skillshare on modelling history
History of ideas of causes of trade winds and the general circulation
From Hadley in 1735 onwards
Richardson’s first attempt at a numerical forecast (during WW1)
Early numerical weather prediction on computers (1940s onwards)
Norman Phillips, 1956: The General Circulation of the Atmosphere: A Numerical Experiment
Just about my all time favorite paper
The computer
The model
Results (live demo)
John von Neumann, the IAS, dreams of weather control …
Later developments: Faster computers allow more complexity and realism
Smagorinsky, Manabe and Holloway, 1965: Numerical Results from a Nine Level General Circulation Model of the Atmosphere.
Simulated Climatology of a General Circulation Model with a Hydrologic Cycle.
Manabe and Bryan, 1969: Climate Calculations with a Combined Ocean-Atmosphere Model
Manabe and Wetherald, 1975: The Effect of Doubling the CO2 Concentration on the Climate of a General Circulation Model
Manabe and Stouffer, 1980: Sensitivity of a Global Climate Model to an Increase of CO2 Concentration in the Atmosphere
Washington and Meehl, 1989: Climate Sensitivity Due to Increased CO2: Experiments with a Coupled
Atmosphere and Ocean General Circulation Model
Mitchell et al., 1995: Climate Response to Increasing Levels of Greenhouse Gases and Sulphate
Aerosols
CMIP and IPCC history
CSIRO model history
ACCESS model history
Some climate science
What is a greenhouse gas?
Climate feedbacks
Climate sensitivity
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
47
CMIP7 update
CMIP7 is important for all our teams. It might be useful to give some overview of where we are with our preparations. This could also include information from the CMIP7 Task Teams about the design and timeline for CMIP7.
Aidan
(Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)
52
benchcab = benchmark CABLE, runs CABLE against all possible model configurations to maximise code coverage. The model output from CABLE is then pipelined into a model evaluation tool where the user can assess how CABLE performed.
