Hi all!
@Harun_Rashid and I have been keen to kick off some discussions between users of ACCESS (specifically evaluation work) and the model developers. We were hoping to begin some discussions at a future meeting? We’d love to hear your ideas/feedback. Thanks!
Some context:
Dear colleagues and users of ACCESS,
We’d like to start a discussion among interested ACCESS users about how to effectively collaborate in order to improve ACCESS model performance. Many researchers do comprehensive evaluations of climate and earth system models, including ACCESS. They identify model biases, investigate the responsible mechanisms, and write papers on their findings. These results are useful to model developers and could potentially assist developers in identifying mechanisms and processes to focus on.
For example, what specific processes, or which aspects of parameterisation schemes could be responsible for the identified model biases?
We believe that bringing model evaluators and model developers together can facilitate discussions that’d be beneficial for both groups. Such discussions can even lead to some tangible model improvements. Also, model evaluators can gain some insights about the inner workings of the models, giving them the opportunity for a deeper interpretation of their results.
We propose to have such a discussion in the upcoming ACCESS-NRI Workshop, but it’d be good to get some conversations started before the workshop.