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ACCESS User Training Course Program 21-24 March 2016

This page contains the program for the training course. Further information is available from the main course page, at the link below.

STATUS -- The main details below are all final, except for addition of video recordings. When they are ready, the plan is for them to be linked in the program table below. Participants will be notified when this is done.

Presenters: Joao Teixeira, UK Met Office, External Collaboration Team; plus staff from the ACCESS partner organisations.

Venue: Bureau of Meteorology Conference Rooms, Level 6, 700 Collins Street, Docklands.

Monday: ACCESS, Rose-Cylc and UM

Tuesday: Seasonal Forecasting and Climate Modelling

Wednesday: Numerical Weather Prediction and High Resolution Modelling

Thursday: Development tools and work practices

Program and links to materials

Links here currently just point to sections in the course OUTLINE. These will be updated to presentations and practical exercises materials before the course, labelled as DRAFT or FINAL, as indicated by the authors.

Monday 21 March -- ACCESS, Rose-Cylc and UM

9:00		Arrival and pre-course setup
9:15	Peter May	Welcome
9:20	Michael Naughton	Introduction
9:35	Martin Dix	Introduction to ACCESS User Facilities
10:00	Wenming Lu / Joao Teixeira	Rose & Cylc
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Introduction to UM (1)
12:30	Lunch (provided)
13:30	Joao Teixeira	UM Science Configurations - GA suite
13:50	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with UM suite
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with UM suite
16:30	Finish

Tuesday 22 March -- Seasonal Forecasting and Climate Modelling

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Martin Dix / Tony Hirst	ACCESS Climate Modelling
09:50	Joao Teixeira	HadGEM-GC3 Rose Suite
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Duncan Ackerley	The ARCCSS: Overview and modelling activities
11:30	Joao Teixeira	Global Model Science Configurations -- GA and GC documentation in the GMED portal
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Debbie Hudson	Bureau ACCESS-S Seasonal Forecasting
13:50	Joao Teixeira	Using Iris for UM data visualisation
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with Iris data visualisation
16:30	Finish

Wednesday 23 March -- Numerical Weather Prediction and High Resolution Modelling

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Chris Tingwell	Introduction to ACCESS NWP
09:50	Joao Teixeira	Rose nesting suite
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with Rose nesting suite
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Peter Steinle	Report on Singapore Convective Scale Modelling Workshop
		Web Page for Singapore Convective Scale Modelling Workshop
13:50	Jeff Kepert	High-resolution ensemble prediction of an East Coast Low
14:10	Robin Bowen	RDS data repositories at NCI -- Bureau provided datasets
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Lawrie Rikus	Synthetic satellite imagery from ACCESS NWP model forecasts
15:25	Lawrie Rikus	Useful utilities -- SMOCS and STASH utilities
15:35	Tan Le	ACCESS NWP datasets in RDS and tools for file format conversion
16:30	Finish

Thursday 24 March -- Development tools and work practices

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Joao Teixeira	Rose suite design for any application
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with simple Rose suite design
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Scott Wales	Code development working practices, rose stem, local testing, suite portability
14:50	All	Clean-up -- Thanks to all for helping.
15:00	Afternoon Tea
15:30	All	Post-course tour to St. Brew (aka. Summit), Imperial Hotel, and MCG
22:00	Finish

Other possibilities for Thursday

Suites for ancillary files (Dix) - Possibly covered in the nested suite?
STASH
Tour through various useful sites
- Local wiki
- MOSRS wiki
- Collab wiki
- MOSRS tickets
- Rose and cylc on github

Things to mention

SCM suite