1. Introduction to ACCESS User Training Course
Michael Naughton
Earth Systems Modelling Program
Bureau of Meteorology
ACCESS User Training Course
Melbourne, March 2016

2. 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

3. Apologies
Kamal Puri – Road trip to Parliament House for Public Service Medal presentation
CSIRO Aspendale staff meeting Monday morning re O&A staffing changes
BoM CPSU and Professionals Australia staff Monday morning Enterprise Agreement certified industrial action

4. Course 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

5. Course information (2) Program times 9:00 – 4:30
Catering – Morning & afternoon teas, Monday lunch
Course photo
Tuesday at start of Morning Tea
Remote participants shots also welcome
Course survey – To be sent by next week

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

7. Joao Teixeira, Lead Trainer
UK Met Office External Collaboration Team
Climate modelling support scientist
Responsible for organising 2016 UM Users Tutorial
PhD in High Resolution Modelling, Univ of Aveiro, Portugal
Comes from Azores islands, Portugal
Interests: Sailing, rock climbing, photography

8. Conference Room
Tables are for participants with laptops for practical sessions
Front tables are reserved for visitors until presentations start.
Remaining tables and row 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. V-C details have been provided on course wiki and by .
Charging for laptops on half the work tables and on side tables. Share spots at tables with power outlets so everyone who needs them can get access.

9. Video-Conferencing facilities
V-C connection info – refer course wiki and s
Contact Robin Bowen or Scott Wales if assistance is required
Slack – chat room coordinated by Scott Wales, present on-site
Presentations will be shared on V-C; also available to download from course wiki
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Please mute microphones when not speaking
We aim to include you in all sessions of the course

10. Course program
Combination of topic-talks, course-presentations, and practical sessions Primary purpose is to equip ACCESS community to be able to run and work with the ACCESS modelling systems 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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
: APS0 ACCESS NWP operational
20xx: ACCESS CM1 released

16. ACCESS – Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator
 ACCESS Awards
2013 CSIRO Medal for Science Excellence
2014 Bureau Excellence Award

17. 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 – R&D Branch
CSIRO: DAR – CAR – CMAR and Oceanography, CLW
Monash CDM & CDMO, CRCSHM
UNSW Ocean Modelling Group
Macquarie Uni Climate Centre
GASP, LAPS
CSIRO Mkx 197x-
CCAM

18. 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

19. 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 & Robin Bowen Wednesday talk
Talk also covers tool for accessing and converting data

20. NWP and High Resolution Modelling presentations and training session
Joao Teixeira and Scott Wales Wednesday training session – Nesting suite for high-resolution modelling studies 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

21. BoM ACCESS-S Seasonal Forecasts
Debbie Hudson Tuesday talk
Multi-week to Annual timescales
Input to Bureau Seasonal Climate Outlooks
Rainfall & temperature anomalies, El Nino, MJO
ACCESS successor to POAMA Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia 20xx-
Couple Atmosphere-Ocean System

22. BoM ACCESS-S Seasonal Forecasts (2)
Originally based on Bureau Coupled Climate Model – Bureau Global 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

23. CSIRO Climate Modelling
Martin Dix / Tony Hirst Tuesday talk
CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Program
ACCESS CM1 & CM2
CABLE land surface model (Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange)
AUSCOM MOM ocean modelling
CMIP5 & CMIP6 participation
Long history in climate and air quality modelling
CSIRO Mk1/2/3 climate model, CCAM, TAPM

24. 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 – Scott Wales, Holger Wolff ACCESS-UM experts

25. 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, cwslab data processing
RDSI Research Data Storage Initiative -> RDS Research Data Services project
ACCESS-Opt – ACCESS Optimisation project

26. 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

27. Meetings CAWCR Workshop 2005-
Formerly BMRC Modelling Workshop from 1986—2004
ACCESS Model Evaluation Workshop
Coordinated by Lawrie Rikus
2-3 per year since ~2006
AMOS Annual Conference
ARCCSS Annual Science Workshop
MOSAC – Met Office Science Advisory Council
UM User Workshop and UM Users Tutorial

28. UM Partnership
UM licensed to BoM, CSIRO and ARCCSS Australian universities
UM Partners: Met Office (UK); BoM, CSIRO (Australia); KMA (Korea); NIWA (NZ); NCMRWF (India)
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
Australian Universities

29. UM Partnership UM Consortium Board Technical Infrastructure Project
Formal part of second UM Licence Agreement ( )
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
Data Assimilation observations monitoring software

30. UM Partnership Science Collaboration Project Currently in development
Global model evaluation
Regional model development
Data assimilation

31. Websites and documentation wikis
Martin Dix ACCESS User Facilities talk
ACCESS wiki
ACCESS NWP wiki (BoM internal)
ARCCSS CMS wiki
CWSLab website
MOSRS shared repository
Met Office collab wiki
1000th user – Saima Aijaz

32. Rose-Cylc Core of Joao Teixeira training course content
Replacement for previous UM technical infrastructure: UMUI and SCSUI, OPSUI, VARUI
Complete re-design of UM TI framework
Development commenced 2009
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

33. Rose-Cylc (2) Github open source projects
Python-based, built on publicly available components
GUI-based, but also fully functional using file editing and command-line functions

34. IRIS Joao Teixeira Tuesday afternoon course session
Python visualisation and diagnostics environment
Met Office AVD Team – Mark Hedley
Github open source project
IRIS data browser GUI being developed

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

36. 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

37. Development tools and work practices
Joao Teixeira and Scott Wales Thursday sessions
Creating Rose-Cylc suites for non-UM applications
Rose-Cylc shared portable suite design
Development work practices for UM codes and suites
MOSRS shared repository
SVN configuration management
Trunk versions and user development branches
Trac tickets, documentation of changes, peer review
Release cycles
Rose-stem test facility

38. Development tools and work practices
Joao Teixeira and Scott Wales Thursday sessions
Creating Rose-Cylc suites for non-UM applications
Rose-Cylc shared portable suite design
Development work practices for UM codes and suites
MOSRS shared repository
SVN configuration management
Trunk versions and user development branches
Trac tickets, documentation of changes, peer review
Release cycles
Rose-stem test facility

39. Questions?
ACCESS User Training Course
Melbourne, March 2016

40. Questions?