Announce: Atmosphere Working Group

Atmosphere Working Group
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Atmosphere Working Group Meeting 12.02.2025

** For a calendar invite, simply click on the relevant calendar link below **

Agenda:

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

  2. Science talk (15+5mins)

    • Free-running tests with the NRI-version of the Regional Nesting Suite by Matt Lipson
      Matt will focus on the difference of using BARRA-R2 vs ERA5-LAND initial conditions when running the NRI-version of the UKMO Regional Nesting Suite. He will also touch on the use of OSTIA extensions as well as go through model outputs and possible ways to convert these to netcdf.

  3. Tech talk (15+5mins)

    • An introduction to ACCESS-Vis: Visualisation tools released to date and current work in progress by Owen Kaluza
      Own will give a brief introduction to the ACCESS-Vis and ACCESS-Visualisation-Recipes releases. These projects aim to make rendering 3D high-res visualisations and animations easier and more accessible within the Jupyter Notebook environment.
      Owen will also cover some more complex example visualisation outputs created using these tools, including a work in progress from atmospheric data sets such as AUS2200.

  4. 2025 ACCESS Workshop: Heidi Nettelbeck (5-10mins)
    Plan is to have parallel science talk sessions. Co-chairs need our input of what we’d like to see in the program. Any Ideas?

  5. Compute/storage resources - Atmosphere WG: Heidi Nettelbeck
    Any Experiment proposals for Q1/2025? → 875 kSU allocation
    → See here for how to apply for Atmosphere WG Resources.

  6. Next Atmosphere WG meeting:
    March 2025

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Atmosphere WG meeting 19.03.2025

** For a calendar invite, simply click on the relevant calendar link below **

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. Poll on potential training topics for ACCESS 2025 Workshop Jasmeen Kaur (5mins)

  4. Science talk: (15+5mins)

    • Added value of regional climate models over Australia
      Regional climate models (RCMs) are intended to improve global climate model (GCM) projections by providing more detailed regional and local climate change projections. However, RCMs have their own biases and limitations. An ensemble of RCM projections, produced for the Australian Climate Service, was analysed to assess its added value in predicting extreme weather events. This work reports on the added value analysis of this CORDEX-CMIP6 ensemble, with focus on how well and where it provides better information for cold, hot, wet and dry extremes.

  5. Tech talk: (10+5mins)

    • Running the ACCESS / UM for beginners by Paul Gregory
      W21C has developed training materials to help the community run atmospheric experiments using the Unified Model (UM). These materials begin with basic cylc and rose tutorials, followed by a basic rose/cylc suite, and then a minimum working example of a functioning atmospheric UM suite. These materials should give new users sufficient skills and confidence to tackle the NRI-supported ACCESS suites for atmospheric experiments.

  6. AM3 development & configurations: Martin Dix, Matt Woodhouse (5+10mins)
    ACCESS-NRI update on AM3 development followed by a discussion about which AM3 configurations would be useful to the Atmosphere community.

  7. Compute/storage resources - Atmosphere WG: Heidi Nettelbeck
    Any Experiment proposals for Q1/2025? (875 kSU allocation). Can also use for testing development of ACCESS suites.
    → See here for how to apply for Atmosphere WG Resources.

  8. Next Atmosphere WG meeting:
    April 2025

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ACCESS-NRI Training Day 2025
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Hi everyone!

To gather suggestions and ideas for potential training topics for the 2025 ACCESS-NRI Community Workshop (in Melbourne from 8-12 Sept.), the ACCESS-NRI training team has created a poll :triangular_flag_on_post: on the ACCESS-Hive Forum.

:woman_raising_hand: We would love to hear feedback from all community members about the training sessions they’d like to see this year!

There are 3 main ways to add or vote on the suggestions (similar to StackOverflow):
1. :check_box_with_check: Choose up to 10 options from the existing options on the poll.
2. :writing_hand: Add a new suggestion by hitting the Screenshot 2025-03-05 at 10.37.58 button.
3. ↑ You can also upvote any suggestion found in the replies.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the working group meetings as well :waving_hand: .

Please note that the poll will close on 2025-03-30T13:00:00Z.

Thanks heaps!
Jasmeen Kaur
ACCESS-NRI User Training Team