16/06/2026
Participants: 8
Ancillary workflow: problem at high resolution with land/sea mask discrepancies between the mask we get from the ocean and the CCI mask. Not sure what is happening and why the vegetation type isn’t filled in with a spiral search like other points are dealt with.
Urban work: missing ancillaries. Working on adding these ancillaries now from CESM data. Will add the urban scripts to the ancillary suite.
Met-forcing pre-processor: Working on improving the performance. Had a recent improvement but not enough. Looking at splitting the calculations per variable in separate jobs. Currently would take 40 days to process the entire 60 years of data.
JULES-UM coupled: now have 5 years. Differences seen using 2 datasets, comparing to OzFlux.
Bug in AM3: bulk thermal heat capacity coming from ancillaries is not being picked up by CABLE.
Lachlan has started putting the data from the ancillary suite into a gridinfo format for use in offline. But there is a question about how to initialise the soil temperature and soil moisture. It would not matter much if running a spin-up for offline simulations. Discussed the interpolation of soil temperature and soil moisture between 2 land surface models.
BLAZE and groundwater: Looking at what the fire model works and looking at how to get it work in the coupled model. No progress on groundwater.
ILAMB results for ESM1.6
Some results are now available on me.org: ModelEvaluation.org
There are still some details to fix: Early ACCESS-ESM1.6 ILAMB Evaluation Pipeline Using ACCESS-MOPPy
We would want to have all the ensemble members for historical, also other CMIP6 models.
Discussing presentations at the land working group
Group interested in hearing from Marcus soon. It might be tricky to find the perfect date for it because of workshops and other trips.