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<h1 style="text-align: center; color: blue"> NECTAR Climate and Weather Science Laboratory</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center; color: blue"> Work Package 1</h1>
<h1 style="text-align: center; color: blue"> ACCESS Simulation and Modelling Service</h1>

The Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and NCI are partners in the development of a new Virtual Laboratory with funding from NeCTAR. The Climate and Weather Science Laboratory (http://cwslab.nci.org.au/) provides an integrated national facility for model development, provision and assessment of climate and weather simulations, and establishes a readily available archive of climate and weather data.

The ACCESS simulation and modelling component of the lab builds on the collaboration between CAWCR and the ARCCSS at NCI to create an improved modelling environment. The vision is that

• All users (ARCCSS and CAWCR) have the same modelling environment
  • Seamless across organisations
  • Documentation and support
  • Efficient workflows
  • Reproducibility and traceability
  • Testing and release management
• Capability to do the same wide range of experiments
  • NWP, seasonal, climate, ESM
  • Global, regional, idealised
  • Availability of observations and initial conditions

Goals

• Library of supported and documented standard experiments
  • Including climate, NWP, idealised
• Improved user interface for the coupled model
  • Experiment configuration database for coupled model
• BOM research and operational NWP configurations available
• Adoption of new Met Office technical infrastructure
• Integration with archiving and analysis services
• Better access to BOM data (forecasts, analyses, initial conditions)

Goal is to improve ease of use, reproducibility, support and sharing of code, data and experiments

• ACCESS Model Experiment Library

• Program and materials for Mar 2016 ACCESS User Training
• Program and materials for 14 Oct 2014 ACCESS User Training
• Program and materials for 26 Mar 2014 ACCESS User Training

• Project Plan (Feb 2013) attachment:wiki:AccessNectarCwsl:WP1_Plan_v1.0.pdf
• Use cases (Oct 2012) attachment:wiki:AccessNectarCwsl:WP1_UseCases.pdf
• WP1 related presentations

• WP1 Project milestones
• Use cases and test cases

• Prototype UI for the ACCESS coupled model
• ACCESS Rose and Cylc documentation
• ACCESS SMS documentation
• Iris - python graphics and analysis package

• NeCTAR
• NeCTAR CWSL info page
• CAWCR Earth System Modelling
• ARCCSS
• ARCCSS Computational Modelling Systems Team (CMS)
• NCI
• Met Office Unified Model Collaboration wiki (registration required)

• PCMDI Metrics# Attachments

• WP1_Plan_v1.0.pdf
• WP1_UseCases.pdf