We would like to share an early ACCESS-MOPPy + ILAMB workflow for CMORising and evaluating ACCESS-ESM1.6 historical runs using ILAMB.
Documentation for the workflow is available here:
https://access-moppy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CMORise_ILAMB_workflow.html
The main objective of this workflow is twofold:
- Evaluate ACCESS-ESM1.6 historical production runs using ILAMB.
- Validate that ACCESS-MOPPy is correctly handling CMORisation and derived variable generation.
As part of this effort, @RhaegarZeng has been running tests on historical ACCESS-ESM1.6 runs and comparing the results against ACCESS-ESM1-5 for the variables currently supported by ILAMB. The resulting ILAMB outputs are now publicly available at:
/g/data/zv30/public/data/ILAMB_ESM16_Evaluation
We would greatly appreciate community feedback on these outputs. In particular, we are interested in identifying:
- suspicious model behaviour,
- CMORisation issues,
- incorrectly derived variables,
- metadata inconsistencies,
- or anything else that looks unusual.
Please keep in mind that the workflow is still somewhat rough around the edges. You may notice a mixture of CMIP6 and ACCESS-ESM1-5 references throughout the workflow and outputs. This is mostly due to the fact that ACCESS-ESM1.6 has not yet been formally registered within the CMIP7 controlled vocabularies.
At the moment, the workflow focuses on variables supported by ILAMB, but we can extend the coverage if additional variables are needed.
ACCESS-MOPPy is under active development and regularly updated. The latest release is available through the latest version of the analysis3 conda environment on NCI (currently analysis3-26.05).
If you encounter issues or spot anything unexpected, please feel free to open an issue on the ACCESS-MOPPy GitHub repository:
https://github.com/ACCESS-NRI/ACCESS-MOPPy
If there are other ACCESS-ESM1.6 runs that you would like evaluated using this workflow, please contact either @RhaegarZeng or myself @rbeucher directly.
Over the coming months, we will also be developing training materials and video tutorials to help the community use ACCESS-MOPPy directly, particularly once ACCESS-ESM1.6 registration is complete and proper CMIP7 CMORised outputs become available.
Thanks, everyone, and we look forward to your feedback.