This topic is for meeting minutes from the Cryosphere Working Group.
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13 March 2024
Meeting Notes
I just realised I forgot to post the (amazing) meeting notes Lauren took for the last meeting on 13 March. They are attached as a PDF.
Cryosphere Meeting Minutes 13 March.pdf (8.7 MB)
Cheers,
Kelsey
8 May 2024
Meeting Notes
Agenda
- Update on the ISM process
- Recruitment updates at ACCESS-NRI
- AOB
Notes
- Update on the ISM process
- Reminder to complete the Ice Sheet Model Community Assessment: Link to form
- Expert panel
- Meeting this coming Monday on 13 May
- Role is to assess all the collected assessments and information from the ISM process to make a recommendation on an ISM to include/couple into ACCESS
- The panel is comprised of 8 experts from within the CMWG and broader ACCESS community. They include:
- CMWG co-chairs (Felicity, Ben, Chen)
- CMWG ECR Rep (Lawrence)
- Poul Christoffersen (UTAS, ice sheet expert)
- Katrin Meissner (UNSW, paleoclimate modelling expert)
- Rachel Law (CSIRO, Earth systems expert)
- Andy Hogg (ACCESS-NRI, chair of panel)
- Meeting support (Kelsey)
- ACCESS-NRI observers (Mike Tetley, Martin Dix)
- Discussion on grading criteria, conflicts of interest, transparency on the ISM and expert panel process
- ACCESS-NRI recruitment
- New Ice Sheet Modelling Team Lead role appointed - Mike Tetley
- Currently based in the UK and is a senior Research Software Engineer on our Model Evaluation team
- Starts in this new role in July
- Will transition into the WG Liaison as he spins up (Kelsey will step out of this role)
- Sub-group updates
- Ethics
- Data analysis/tools
- Intend to pick up discussion and progress on these after the ISM process has completed.
- AOB
- Future meeting topics
- Let Felicity know if you want to be added to the calendar invite for meeting reminders
- Any recommendations for future meetings, please send them through to co-chairs
- Surface hydrology possible topic for invited speaker
- Reminder about annual ACCESS Workshop.
- This will be held during the week of Sep 2-6 (exact days still TBC).
- There is again the opportunity to hold a CMWG meeting as part of this week.
- Future meeting topics
CMWG 31 July meeting notes
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Discussion around developing community tools, and an analysis recipes cookbook for ISSM inspired by the COSIMA Cookbook. ACCESS-NRI can support this development and invite any contributions from the CMWG/community. Ideally cookbooks should be easy to use and have the ability to guide new users through getting started.
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It was noted that ISSM does currently have a Python interface, but it is not as well developed or documented as the Matlab interface. Development by ACCESS-NRI will be using Python as Matlab content is not open source/freely available. A question was asked if there are any genuine compatible open-source alternatives to Matlab?
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Current users of ISSM mentioned there are some tools compatible with existing model outputs for analysis using Matlab that could be used as a basis for developing Python workflow. Also for legacy models.
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ACCESS-NRI will start working (using the ISSM Python interface) towards creating a Python API for ISSM (rather than more bespoke scripts)
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The idea of a data pool for model outputs was proposed. The ACCESS-NRI Intake Catalog was mentioned as a possible option for this. Data access and standardisation will be important here (e.g. data projects/locations on Gadi, standardised file outputs such as netcdf). A question was raised if this data pool would support outputs from models other than ISSM?
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Mike discussed 3 new hires at ACCESS-NRI coming down the pipeline in the Ice Sheet Modelling team as well as project plans for them, including a python specialist who would sit with him tasked with developing python based tools and recipes to use on Gadi. Other positions might be based at the universities, with EOIs coming out shortly for groups to apply to host them.
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Discussion at the end about access to model outputs with regard to being FAIR moving forwards towards developing a data pool.
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Future discussion around the ACCESS Community Workshop 2024 agenda. It was mentioned that it would be beneficial to promote activities/workshop etc. with the paleoclimate/paleo ice-sheet communities.
CMWG September Meeting minutes
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Primary aim of meeting was to follow up on suggestions, thoughts and ideas that have come out of the ACCESS-NRI workshop earlier in the month.
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Meeting discussion mainly focussed around development of ISSM Python tools and data management ideas.
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It was suggested that CMWG should consider options for a ‘collaborative’ discussion space where ideas can be put forward and discussed (perhaps in a less ‘formal’ space that the Hive) by anyone within the community. A suggestion was maybe to create an open CMWG google doc to gather ideas and then share them on the hive once more developed.
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Discussions around the importance of standardising ISSM model variables / terminology / outputs.
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Map nomenclature within ACCESS suite for consistency
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Potentially start with ISMIP standards
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Efforts should go into accurately describing ACCESS-ISSM standards in order to help interactions with other models/users/data.
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Import that any ISSM tools created need to stay up to date with ISSM development versioning (Github actions / automations)