A reminder to submit an abstract to the NRI workshop (10-12 Sep) and ESM WG meeting (on 12 Sep) in Melbourne. You only need to submit a single abstract, see more information here. Any presentations on the coupled climate system (models and observations) are welcome.
The ESM Working Group Meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday the 19th of June (2025-06-19T03:00:00Z) is cancelled.
The next meeting is scheduled for the 3rd of July (2025-07-03T03:00:00Z) and we currently have no speaker!
If you have something to present, or know someone else who would be happy to present for 10-20 minutes please get in touch with @Aidan, @spencerwong or any of the co-chairs: @eunpalim, @dkhutch, @tiloz, @ShayneM.
Are you a student or Early Career Researcher interested in climate and weather science and modelling?
Join us at the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop! Connect with other researchers using the same models and tools as you and discover new software tools that could transform your research!
The ACCESS Community Workshop will take place 8-12 September 2025 in Melbourne and we are welcoming students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to contribute and attend. The Workshop takes place over 4 days: 2 days of presentations, 1 training day, and 1 day devoted to specific domain working groups (Land Surface, Machine learning for Climate and Weather, Atmosphere, Ocean and Sea ice, Cryosphere and Earth System modeling). Scholarships are available to support ECR/student travel and attendance via the abstract submission.
Who is the ACCESS community?
If your work uses ACCESS models - be that developing models, running models, or analysing model output, then you are part of the ACCESS community! We also welcome researchers using other climate models or considering using ACCESS models to be involved.
This event is hosted by Australiaâs climate simulator (ACCESS-NRI), which provides the software engineering expertise to create open-source models, data and tools in collaboration with Australian research communities.
Learn about Australiaâs ACCESS climate models and tools you might use within your own research
Learn about the broad range of exciting science being done with ACCESS models
Connect with other climate and weather researchers who get it - who encounter similar technical hurdles and triumphs in their research
Attend the dedicated student/ECR social event where you can swap coding stories, make new friends, or simply unwind with people who understand what youâre working on
Talk to ACCESS-NRI staff â the research software engineers who co-develop, maintain and improve the software infrastructure â in person, so you know who to contact for modelling help in the future
Attend hands-on training opportunities on the use of ACCESS models and outputs, as well as other skills including handling large datasets, model evaluation tools, machine learning in climate models, and advanced Git and GitHub â all skills valued by research institutions, industry, and government agencies
Present your work - if you have a talk or poster from a previous occasion, bring it along to expose your research to a wider audience
Ready to advance your climate and weather research? Donât miss this opportunity and apply now!
Science presentations: Consider contacting the co-chairs or @spencerwong if you have any work you would like to present this year. Please consider presenting, even work in progress that youâd like some feedback on.
3. Working Group day at the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop
Community working group meetings at the ACCESS Community Workshop will run on Friday 12 September. Weâll hold a brief discussion on the plan for the ESM working group meeting.
4. Science presentation
@jemmajeffree will present Some fun experiments I ran while we had surplus compute: preliminary results and implications for climate predictability limits.
5. Whatâs going on?
Any other business? Any news to share? Ideas for experiments and collaborations?
Science presentations: Consider contacting the co-chairs or @spencerwong if you have any work you would like to present this year. Please consider presenting, even work in progress that youâd like some feedback on.
3. Working Group day at the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop
Community working group meetings at the ACCESS Community Workshop will run on Friday 12 September. Weâll hold a brief discussion on the plan for the ESM working group meeting.
4. CMIP 7 development update @tiloz will provide a short update on ESM1.6 development and CMIP7
5. Expressions of interest for visualisation projects
6. Future payu configurations for ACCESS ESM1.5
The NRI draft work plan for 2025/2026 contains a target to release additional payu configurations for ACCESS ESM1.5. It would be great to collect ideas on which configurations would be most useful to the community.
5. Whatâs going on?
Any other business? Any news to share? Ideas for experiments and collaborations?