Announce: Atmosphere Working Group

Atmosphere WG meeting 25.02.2026

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Agenda:

  1. Admin: Volunteer for taking today’s meeting minutes to post here on the Forum.

  2. Brief update from WG co-chairs and ACCESS-NRI: Yi Huang, Charmaine Franklin, Matt Woodhouse, Heidi Nettelbeck (5mins)

  3. ACCESS-NRI 2026/27 Work Plan: Community input Claire Courage/Kelsey Druken (5mins)
    ACCESS-NRI is keen to involve the community more closely in planning their next Annual Work Plan (FY2026-27). If you have any ideas, priorities or suggestions of what to include, please use this online form - submission closes on 16 March, 2026. To help inform your feedback, you may wish to refer to our Current-Year Status Report (FY2025-26).

  4. Community Seamless Evaluation Toolkit (CSET) (35+5mins) Jorge Bornemann, Vinod Kumar
    CSET is a community-developed open source toolkit for evaluation, verification, and investigation of weather and climate models. It supports the evaluation of physical numerical models, machine learning models, and observations seamlessly across time and space scales. Jorge and Vinod will give an overview of CSET followed by a demo of how to use it.

  5. Compute/storage resources: Heidi Nettelbeck (5mins)
    Any experiment proposals for Q1/2026 (1.5 MSU allocation)?
    → See here for how to apply for Atmosphere WG Resources.

  6. Next Atmosphere WG meeting: March 2026