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. 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

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

5. 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

6. Video-Conferencing facilities
VMR
Zoom
Slack
Presentations available to download from Course wiki

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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
CSIRO Mkx 197x-
CCAM

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

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

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

30. 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