# Beta-release of ACCESS-rAM3 now available!

**URL:** <https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/beta-release-of-access-ram3-now-available/4361>\
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### 🥁 Rollout: ACCESS-rAM3 beta release

The first ACCESS-NRI supported release of ACCESS-rAM3, an implementation of the UKMO Regional Nesting Suite, is **now available for you to use and test!**

ACCESS-rAM3 is configured to derive its initial and lateral boundary conditions from ERA5. For its land-surface initial conditions, ACCESS-rAM3 offers flexibility by allowing the use of alternative datasets, such as ERA5-Land and BARRA-R2.

### ✅ What can you expect to be able to do with this?

A user should be able to:

- take this suite and run it as-is, which will run a simulation of the Lismore storm event
- modify the location of the whole simulation and the offset of the inner nest within the simulation
- modify the simulation start time

### 🚧 Future developments (not in this release)

- Varying SST capability (OSTIA) is not supported in this release, but is in progress for a later release
- GCM driven data is not supported in this release. This is being scoped for a possible future release

For more information about ACCESS-rAM3 and what you can expect to do with it, refer to the [Release Information](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/access-ram3-release-information/4308) on the ACCESS-Hive Forum.  
You can also visit the ACCESS-Hive Docs for more information about the [model configuration](https://access-hive.org.au/models/configurations/access-ram/) and how to [run ACCESS-rAM3](https://access-hive.org.au/models/configurations/access-ram/).