# Meeting Minutes 2023: Atmosphere Working Group (Archived) **URL:** https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/meeting-minutes-2023-atmosphere-working-group-archived/2251 **Category:** Working Group **Created:** [25 July 2024 05:13 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/meeting-minutes-2023-atmosphere-working-group-archived/2251 "2024-07-25T05:13:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
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## Atmosphere WG kick-off Meeting 17.05.2023 minutes **17 May 2023 (10:00-11:45)** 24 participants online via zoom From: BoM, CSIRO, UTas, UNSW, NRI, UoM, CLEX, Monash Noted that Zoom is problematic for BoM users, banned on Bureau laptops Slides: [AtmosWG\_kickoff\_170523.pdf](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/uploads/short-url/rV6xD2xA7KWDjUVIKw2KYWdA3WG.pdf) (2.3 MB) _Welcome and acknowledgment_ - Acknowledgement of traditional owners _Round table intros_ - 1 minute intros from all attending - Wide variety of backgrounds in community: research interests, UM expertise, atmospheric modelling expertise _ACCESS-NRI_ - ACCESS-NRI created to support development and research with the ACCESS modelling system _ACCESS-Hive and Forum_ - [https://access-hive.org.au](https://access-hive.org.au): portal to documentation, does require community input - [https://forum.access-hive.org.au](https://forum.access-hive.org.au): place for community to discuss and organise _Intro to Atmosphere WG_ - Key aims – establish Australian atmospheric modelling community, currently missing _Why are you / we here?_ - Community building: atmos modelling community hasn’t been as well organised as other communities, e.g. land, ocean. Would be great for atmos community to reach that level of community organisation. Stronger to have a coherent voice, rather than singular voices. - Identify strategic priorities - Several people identified as being new to UM. Atmos WG is way to access training, docs, tools etc? Acknowledged that this is a priority for NRI. Noted that different ACCESS configs require different training - Advanced training would also be valuable for more experienced users – allow them to solve more complex problems - Think outside of box in delivering training / info. Videos? _Terms of reference of Atmos WG_ - Overview of ToR - [Atmosphere Working Group: Terms of Reference - #2 by cnf](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/atmosphere-working-group-terms-of-reference/665/2) - Noted that responsibility for infrastructure is spread across NRI teams / groups - ToR accepted by those in meeting, can be revised in future if needed _Structure / near-term objectives_ - Structure / content of meetings - Previous ACCESS evaluation meetings (held a few times a year by Lawrie Rikus at BOM) are missed by community. Resurrect those in some format? - Science presentations, long / short - User problem solving, new and experienced - What are people planning, where are the gaps? - Pick a topic every meeting? Have discussion around that. Where is atmos community placed? e.g. CMIP ambitions. Noted that there is an Earth System WG. How to integrate model in community? Promote use of UM. How to collaborate between WGs, communities - Community experiments - what does community want? - goal for hackathons - establish as community resource - publicise pre-existing simulations that could be valuable - How to reach non UM users, e.g. WRF community _Meeting frequency_ - other WGs meeting fortnightly - what is community preference? - Great to have at least one in person meeting per year, make it a full day - otherwise ~6 meetings per year? Or monthly? Do we have enough to discuss to meet monthly? - Initially it is important to communicate what we are all doing, higher frequency might help with that - Forum has a post for topic suggestions - [Ideas for Topics of Discussion: Atmosphere WG Meetings](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/ideas-for-topics-of-discussion-for-the-atmosphere-working-group-meetings/663) - Monthly meetings initially, mix of science / technical topics - how to use forum would be valuable - Several 10-12 min talks, informal discussion style? Or a single longer 20 minute talk? Lightning talks also to cover intros etc? - Meeting length 1 hour _Compute resource_ - Atmos WG has 1.25 MSU available - Guidelines to be released shortly, used for community experiments _Atmosphere WG Satellite meeting:_ to be held during ACCESS-NRI annual workshop _5-8 September 2023_. More details to follow! \*\* **Note** \*\* Please watch the [Atmosphere Announce topic](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/atmosphere-working-group-announce/568/5) on the ACCESS-forum to receive information on upcoming meetings and events! This [youtube video](https://youtu.be/13sgFeSccm0) explains how to watch a topic on the ACCESS-Hive Forum. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/meeting-minutes-2023-atmosphere-working-group-archived/2251)._