# Land working group, meeting notes 2026

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**Created:** [3 February 2026 04:04 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/land-working-group-meeting-notes-2026/5853 "2026-02-03T04:04:31Z")\
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# 19/05/2026

Participants: 8

_Working group projects:_

- **CABLE vs JULES comparison:** 3 years of ACCESS-rAM3 from 2012-2014 with BoM’s updated land cover map.
- **Ancillary workflow:** fix for the land/sea mask mismatch for sea-ice by forcing everything under 60°S to ice. Experiences in n96 and n512 configurations will be run at 21st Century weather, with and without urban.

_ESM/Land workshop_

Reminder submissions are open. There will be a hackathon on ESM1.6 evaluation at the workshop.  
Question about JULES training at the workshop:

- maybe not a lot of interest
- but it would be useful to have written documentation on how to run JULES offline.

Are there any connections to the observation communities? Not so far, but the idea raised some interest and would be worth exploring for future workshops.

_Evaluation of ESM1.6_

Romain has advertised the workflow to go from ESM1.6 outputs to ILAMB is ready: [Early ACCESS-ESM1.6 ILAMB Evaluation Pipeline Using ACCESS-MOPPy](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/early-access-esm1-6-ilamb-evaluation-pipeline-using-access-moppy/6378)

CSIRO will do a detailed analysis of the carbon cycle but the biogeophysics might not be evaluated to the same degree. There might also be some interesting research for some students.

_Other business_

Raised the question of support for `mdssdiff`.

Discussion on how to use a personal CABLE version for a publication:

- introduction of the `pub-SHA` tag to identify these and provide a URL to point to in a publication.
- request new tags from the CABLE admin team (on the forum or via a CABLE issue)
- update to the CABLE documentation to come shortly.

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