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ACCESS Oversight Committee - Notes from the 22nd April 2021

Agreed on ACCESS Science Day for June 10-11 (avoiding full days) with groups meeting, where COVID safe, in key centres (Monash not available, Aspendale and BoM possible, UNSW and ANU happy to host, Hobart could be CSIRO and/or UTas)
Sessions to include high-res modelling, CMIP6, ocean modelling etc.
Suggested invited/keynote presentations in addition to short talks. Talks could include international/national future directions of modelling, CMIP and update on ACCESS-NRI, NESP Climate Systems Hub
R Law, C Franklin, A Kiss, C Mackallah to start organising. First notice ready for distribution by 26 April.

Noted strategy development better in a separate workshop (from Science day), preferably in person, with opportunities for input from a broad group.
2nd half of the year depending on external needs/timelines
Start on proposal for how to do this (C Jakob, R Law/A Lenton, BoM rep)

Convective-scale ensemble. Three domains running operationally, seven domains from July
BARRA2 prototype with update to physics and DA, 12 km. Will run operationally.
Close to resolving making BARRA data available for research use
UM GMED Process Evaluation Group (PEG) focussed on the Indo-Pacific. Workshop held 19th April with good participation (presentations and discussion)

Hiring next round of post-docs including some for modelling. Expect delays in getting people started (COVID etc)
CMIP6 analysis work ongoing
New COE bid being prepared including ACCESS. Ambition of climate modelling at ~1 km scale as a science tool for understanding mechanisms.

NCRIS roadmapping pre-work taking time.
Close to new service - Open On Demand - Initial release includes Jupyter and Pangeo
Visualisation of CMIP models nearly ready. Public release - coordination of publicity needed.
Singapore climate centre - using NCI for some modelling work.

Close to signing contract between CSIRO and DAWE. Partners to expect sub-contracts in next 1-2 weeks.
Science planning underway with input from representatives across partners and in-scope areas. T Ziehn involved representing ACCESS community.
Need education of scientists of expectations for 2021 - projects this year will be scoping, understanding needs. Also some continuity of fundamental research.

UM user workshop will be week of 14th June, registrations due.
GC (Global Climate) Partners Coordination Group. Currently T. Hirst, O. Alves (BoM) and H. Rashid, S. Marsland (CSIRO) on the group. Need a replacement for S. Marsland.

Work continues on the collaboration agreement, governance, partner input and appointing an interim director
A face-to-face planning meeting would be valuable once the interim director is in place.

== 4. Other business

AOC keen for a briefing on CaRSA and implications for modelling once any information about further funding

== 5. Next meeting 27 May 2021