Sorry if it seems I’m being difficult, but I was just trying to get to the intent behind the queries. So I’d say an agenda item “Pre- and post- processing tools for ACCESS-ESM-1.5” would be a great discussion topic for an ESM Working Group meeting.
It would be good to have topics covering each of your questions, if there are not any currently, so there is somewhere people can post follow up information and questions. I’d suggest putting the ACCESS-ESM questions in the related category on the forum.
In some cases there is value in just documenting the current state, so create a user story, e.g. detailing a representative ACCESS-ESM1.5 output directory, the number and size of the files, and the same sizes after using the ACCESS Archiver. How that can be incorporated in your workflow in payu, that sort of thing.
By collating this information it provides a snap-shot for usage at a time, so you can check against that at some point in the future in case the composition of the files has changed, or the tools used aren’t behaving as you expect. Also others can compare their own experiments.
If you provide enough information to assess the effects of compression, for example, people with technical expertise who don’t use that model can give you feedback if it appears to be working correctly. Without this information they have no way of helping short of running the model themselves, which is a massive waste of their time, and so very unlikely to happen.