Introduction to ACCESS User Training Course Michael Naughton Earth Systems Modelling Program Bureau of Meteorology ACCESS User Training Course Melbourne, 21-24 March 2016

Course information Course administrator Val Jemmeson Organising Committee Michael Naughton, Joao Teixeira, Martin Dix, Scott Wales, Robin Bowen, Val Jemmeson, Wenming Lu, Yi Xiao, Oscar Alves, Ben Evans Organising Committee have red lettering on name badges Course Reception: Level 6 entry area Collect name badge, and have your name ticked off registration list

Visitors information Building access 6th Floor Conference Room access available 8:30am – 5pm Building access pass not required Course badge to be worn while in building Visitor access to other floors only if accompanied by Bureau staff member Toilets located in lobby areas on each floor Emergency evacuation Warning siren – proceed to lobby Evacuation siren – use stairs, following direction of helmeted fire wardens Proceed as directed to off-site assembly areas First Aid and other assistance Registration Desk; leave note if unattended Lobby phones Bureau Reception Level 5 behind lifts on station side Bureau staff

Sponsors UM Partnership Collaboration Fund ACCESS partners Bureau of Meteorology CSIRO ARCCSS NeCTAR CWSLab Project

Conference Room Tables are for participants with laptops for practical sessions Front tables are marked as reserved for visitors, with red dots on badges, until presentations start. Remaining tables and other seating are free for anyone to use. Bureau staff have option to join by video, using Bureau Cisco Jabber from their desktop or office phone. Catering Course photo – Monday at start of Morning Tea

Video-Conferencing facilities VMR Zoom Slack Presentations available to download from Course wiki https://accessdev.nci.org.au/trac/wiki/access

Course program Monday: Introduction to ACCESS Rose-Cylc, UM Tuesday: Seasonal and Climate Modelling Wednesday: Numerical Weather Prediction and High-Resolution Modelling Thursday: Development tools and work practices Combination of topic-talks, course-presentations, and practical sessions.

Joao Teixeira, Lead Trainer UK Met Office External Collaboration Team Climate modelling support scientist Responsible for organising 2016 UM Users Tutorial Background: PhD in High Resolution Modelling, Univ of A…, Portugal

Monday – ACCESS, Rose-Cylc and UM 9:00 Arrival and pre-course setup 9:15 Peter May Welcome 9:20 Michael Naughton Introduction (sample for attachment syntax only)​ 9:35 Martin Dix Introduction to ACCESS User Facilities 10:00 Wenming Lu / Joao Teixeira Introduction to Rose and Cylc (1) 10:50 Morning Tea 11:10 Joao Teixeira Introduction to Rose and Cylc (2) 11:40 Introduction to UM (1) 12:30 Lunch (provided) 13:30 Introduction to UM (2) 14:50 Afternoon Tea 15:10 Practical exercise with UM suite (1) 16:30 Finish

Tuesday – 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 Introduction to ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science 11:30 ​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 Using Iris for UM data visualisation 14:50 Afternoon Tea 15:10 Practical exercise with Iris data visualisation 16:30 Finish

Wednesday – 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 Practical exercise with Rose nesting suite 12:30 Lunch break 13:30 Peter Steinle ​Report on Singapore Convective Scale Modelling Workshop 13:50 Jeff Kepert High-resolution ensemble prediction of an East Coast Low 14:10 Tan Le / Robin Bowen RDS data repositories at NCI -- ACCESS NWP and Bureau-provided observational data 14:50 Afternoon Tea 15:10 Lawrie Rikus Synthetic satellite imagery from ACCESS NWP model forecasts 15:25 Useful utilities -- SMOCS and pretty_stash 15:35 Other NWP tools -- File format converters, CreateBC, etc. 16:30 Finish

Thursday – 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 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 Afternoon Tea 15:10 Tour through various useful sites 16:00 Finish

ACCESS – Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator  ACCESS 10th anniversary 2005: Kamal Puri appointed ACCESS Leader BoM, CSIRO, Australian research community Formulation and recommendations ACCESS Blueprint 2006: Commenced work with UM 2007: First UM Licence signed 2009-2010: APS0 ACCESS NWP operational 20xx: ACCESS CM1 released

BoM ACCESS Research and Operational NWP Chris Tingwell Wednesday talk Global, regional, high-resolution city domains, TC, ensembles Data assimilation and short-medium range 0-10 day forecasts BNOC – Bureau National Operations Centre – 24-7 operations ISS – Information Systems and Services – Supercomputing and IT systems Basis of Bureau forecasts: severe weather warnings and public weather forecasts

BoM ACCESS Research and Operational NWP (2)  Automated forecast generation – GFE Graphical Forecast Editor Specialised services for aviation, defence, emergency services, mining, agriculture, marine and business customers Research computing at NCI ACCESS NWP forecasts available to Australian research community in NCI RDS facility Tan Le Wednesday talk

BoM ACCESS Research and Operational NWP (3) Peter Steinle Wednesday talk – Singapore Convective Scale Modelling Workshop report Jeff Kepert Wednesday talk – High resolution ensemble forecast of March 2015 Dungog-Maitland East Coast Low Lawrie Rikus Wednesday talks – Synthetic satellite imagery; Tools for Model Output Statistics collection and examining STASH settings

BoM ACCESS-S Seasonal Forecasts Debbie Hudson Tuesday talk Multi-week to Annual timescales Input in Bureau Seasonal Climate Outlooks ACCESS successor to POAMA Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia 20xx- Couple Atmosphere-Ocean System Originally based on Bureau Global Coupled Model – Bureau Spectral Model atmosphere, AUSCOM MOM ocean ACCESS-S based on ACCESS CM1 ACCESS-S2 based on GC2-GC3 Ocean DA Coupled initialisation Long period hindcasts for calculating climate anomalies Scheduled to be operational in 2016-17

CSIRO Climate Modelling Martin Dix / Tony Hirst Tuesday talk CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Program ACCESS CM1 & CM2 CABLE (Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange) land surface model AUSCOM MOM ocean modelling CMIP5 & CMIP6 participation Long history in climate and air quality modelling CSIRO climate model, CCAM, TAPM

ARCCSS Duncan Ackerley Tuesday talk Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Climate Systems Science 5 Australian Universities – UNSW, ANU, Monash, Melbourne, UTas Partnership with BoM and CSIRO Climate research and physical parameterisation research CMS Team

Bureau, CSIRO and Universities weather and climate modelling since ~ 1970 Priestley Bourke, Puri, McAvaney, Leslie, Seaman, LeMarshall, Davidson Hunt, Gordon, McGregor Bureau Research Branch – CMRC – ANMRC – BMRC – CAWCR – Bureau R&D CSIRO DAR – CAR – CMAR and Oceanography, L&W Monash CDM & CDMO, CRCSHM UNSW Ocean Modelling Group Macquarie Uni Climate Centre GASP, LAPS 1976-2010 CSIRO Mkx 197x- CCAM

NCI National Computational Infrastructure Located at ANU, Canberra NCRIS supported national research supercomputing centre Collaboration of ANU, CSIRO, BoM, Geoscience Australia Partnership with Australian universities through Australian Research Council Raijin, accessdev, access_wiki RDSI Research Data Storage Initiative -> RDS Research Data Services project ACCESS-Opt – ACCESS Optimisation project

NeCTAR CWSLab National e-Research Collaboration tools and Resources project Climate and Weather Science Laboratory – cwslab.nci.org.au Project to support ACCESS infrastructure and resources for national research community Includes support for ACCESS training course

UM Partnership UM licensed to BoM, CSIRO and ARCCSS Australian universities UM Partners: Met Office, BoM, CSIRO, KMA, NIWA, NCMRWF UM Associates: SAWS (South Africa), Poland, PAGASA (Philippines), SMS (Singapore), US Air Force 55th Weather Wing (formerly AFWA). UK Universities – esp. Reading, Exeter, Leeds, Cambridge

UM Partnership UM Consortium Board Technical Infrastructure Project Formal part of second UM Licence Agreement (2013) 4 FTE's p.a. contribution for each UM Partner O(10) work packages Rose-Cylc systems and suites, MOSRS shared repository HPC optimisation and benchmarking, File formats (netcdf, grib), Land surface (JULES-CABLE), Visualisation (IRIS), Verification (VER & VerPY), UM development and testing, DA observations data software Science Collaboration Project Currently in development Global model evaluation Regional model development Data assimilation

Meetings CAWCR Workshop 2005- Formerly BMRC Modelling Workshop from 1980's ACCESS Model Evaluation Workshop Coordinated by LarwieRikus 2-3 per year since ~2006 AMOS Annual Conference ARCCSS Science Workshop MOSAC – Met Office Science Advisory Council UM User Workshop and UM Users Tutorial

Websites and documentation wikis Martin Dix ACCESS User Facilities talk ACCESS NWP wiki (BoM internal) ARCCSS CMS wiki CWSLab website MOSRS shared repository Met Office collab wiki

Rose-Cylc Core of Joao Teixeira training course content Replacement for previous UM technical infrastructure: UMUI and SCSUI, OPSUI, VARUI Development commenced 2009 Complete re-design of UM TI framework Cylc developed by Hilary Oliver, NIWA Rose developed in Met Office – Dave Matthews, Matt Shin, Ben Fitzpatrick Includes SVN configuration management FCM system for building executables Released around 2012 Met Office Rose-Cylc NWP and Seasonal systems operational 2014 Github open source projects Python-based, built on publicly available components GUI-based, but also fully functional using file editing and command-line functions

IRIS Joao Teixeira Tuesday afternoon course sessions Python visualisation and diagnostics environment Met Office AVD Team – Mark Hedley  

GMED Global Model Evaluation and Development   Joao Teixeira Tuesday session Incorporates GA and GC and other components David Walters, Keith Williams and many others

RMED Regional Model Evaluation and Development New project Regional model equivalent of GMED Convective Scale Modelling Plan for annual RA releases RA1 target 1H 2017