Ashley Barnes: A new regional coupled climate model in the ACCESS model family
The ACCESS family of models has long included global ocean, atmosphere and coupled climate models. High resolution regional models are now being included, beginning with the regional atmosphere and ocean models ACCESS-rAM3 and ACCESS-rOM3 respectively. Work has now begun on a new coupled regional model, ACCESS-rCM3. Like rAM3 and rOM3, the new regional coupled model will be easily relocatable and reconfigurable to the user’s domain of choice. So far, we have a working prototype, and are in the process of building the infrastructure to automatically set up model configurations.
This meeting presents a great chance for us to learn what use cases people would have in mind for our model, so that we can best include the features most important for the climate modelling community.
You can even come to us with ideas for a new regional coupled experiment, and we might be able to help make it a reality!