03/02/2026 meeting
Participants: 13
Presentation by Clare Stephens on plant hydraulics
CABLE output redesign
Need community feedback on proposed design. See topic on this new design: Proposed CABLE Output Redesign
Feedback welcome over the next month
ACCESS-NRI work plan for FY 26-27
Looking for community input early.
CABLE and JULES comparison
Is there interest in coordinating a comparison exercise in the Earth system configuration in the historical and scenarios space?
Is there scope to make this a bigger activity with LPJ-GUESS and DAVE?
2 ideas if there is interest:
- get together to scope the project supported through the Bureau of Meteorology
- or should it be part of the land working group annual workshop in September.
Anna: keen to pursue a CABLE/JULES comparison over Australia. Adding a JULES-ES/CABLE-CASA comparison would be great.
Ian: problem for running ES simulations is the spinup.
Gab: can be included to know what is happening and if he can participate. Could we add the CABLE-TRENDY type version as well as CABLE-main?
Ian: need coordination to decide on which configurations to bring in. Seems to have enough interest to push this further
Anna: question of the weather generator. People interested in the AGCD dataset to force the model but it’s daily data. What to update the weather generator to?
What met forcing:
- AGCD is real history but missing wind layer
- BARRA has big biases in rainfall, vpd … (might not be the latest BARRA version) Recent evaluation paper: https://connectsci.au/es/article/75/3/ES25032/251923/The-Australian-regional-atmospheric-reanalysis
- ERA5 is also a model not observation-based.
Siyuan: work has been going on with the CCI ancillaries by Mat and Lachlan. For the forcings, the Bureau uses AGCD for rainfall and uses ERA5 for other forcings. Looking at bias-correction of BARRA against AGCD.
Gab: could we get collaboration from UKCH folks who are already using JULES-ES?
Contact Ian if you want to be involved.