Announce: Atmosphere Working Group

Atmosphere Working Group
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Atmosphere WG meeting 21.10.2026

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Agenda:

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

  2. ACCESS Community updates: (5mins)
    Placeholder for any updates from the atmosphere community.

  3. The ‘Black Summer’ Currowan fire: insights from a case study Mika Peace, BoM (15+5mins)
    On New Years Eve 2019, the ’Black Summer’ fires flared across southeastern Australia. One of the most impactful fires was the Currowan fire, which jumped the six-lane Princes Highway and burned into communities near Lake Conjola. Numerous homes were lost and there were three fatalities. We have conducted a detailed case study of the Currowan fire near Conjola, including coupled fire-atmosphere simulations using ACCESS-Fire.
    The case study highlights the importance of dynamic mesoscale meteorological processes during impactful events. Preparedness and situational awareness during future extreme events will benefit from enhanced use of high-resolution NWP for understanding meteorological processes.

  4. From Cylc 7 to Cylc 8: Migrating UM Suites Martin Dix, ACCESS-NRI (15+5mins)
    This talk will walk through how to migrate UM suites from Cylc 7 to Cylc 8. Martin will cover the main technical changes, including moving from suite.rc to flow.cylc and changes to scheduling and task control. Troubleshooting, including things to watch out for when migrating existing cylc suites, will also be mentioned.

  5. Ask the community?? :thinking: Sonya Fiddes (5mins)
    Do you have a research question that you’ve exhausted ideas to find an answer to?
    Here’s your chance to ask our Atmosphere community for their ideas!

  6. ACCESS-NRI EOI call for ESM3 dev-eval Heidi Nettelbeck (5mins)
    Expressions of Interest from qualified research teams and individuals to work with ACCESS-NRI in testing and evaluation of ACCESS-ESM3 and its components. The ACCESS-ESM3 forward plan requires both technical development (primarily done by ACCESS-NRI) and improvements in model quality. Improving the quality of the model involves an iterative cycle of model testing and evaluation that will benefit from expertise in the research community. Due 31st October 2026!

  7. BARRA v3 user survey
    The BoM is seeking your input for the design of BARRA v3, the Bureau’s next generation atmospheric re-analysis that will based on ERA6. See here for more information.

  8. UKMO authentication for CSIRO and BoM users Heidi Nettelbeck (2mins)
    A BoM/CSIRO Workflow has been created to authenticate BoM and CSIRO users to access UKMO licensed material (models and configurations) that ACCESS-NRI deploys and supports on NCI. ACCESS-NRI has given CSIRO and BoM employees access to UKMO licensed materials on vk83 based on their historical access to the NCI MOSRS mirror via the ki32_mosrs subgroup. This access will be removed in the future.

  9. 7th Momentum Partnership Convective-Scale Modelling Workshop Singapore, 2-6 Nov 2026
    Registration is now open for the 7th Momentum Partnership Convective-Scale Modelling Workshop. See here for more info.

  10. Compute/storage resources: Heidi Nettelbeck (2mins)
    Any experiment proposals for Q4/2026 (2 MSU allocation)?
    → See here for how to apply for Atmosphere WG Resources.

  11. Next Atmosphere WG meeting: November 2026