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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 2d

We are excited to share this important overview of #CMIP7! Australia is submitting one model configuration, ACCESS-ESM1.6, for the FastTrack component of CMIP7, and mobilising a large-scale initiative of researchers from many disciplines and institutions.
🔗Paper: bit.ly/3VSzIlO
🔗More: bit.ly/42vlGu5

CMIP7 Overview and how is Australia participating on this international collaboration - ACCESS-NRI

A paper published this week in Geoscientific Model Development provides an overview of the seventh phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). This international...

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 13d

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 13d

We are thrilled to welcome the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as a partner organisation! This positions Australia at the forefront of Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, combining ACCESS-NRI's world-class modelling infrastructure with AAD's scientific expertise.
🌏More: bit.ly/4nK26Cj

An image of a visualisation of Antarctica on Earth and a quote from ACCES-NRI Director, Andy Hogg, plus logos from the two organisations.

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Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 15d

Today, the Academy is leading global change as co-convener of the landmark ‘Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action’ at the UN General Assembly alongside
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social Brown University & The OSLUV Project – building on the WHO's 2021 declaration clean air is a basic human right.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 26d

We just heard an ocean eddy during #ACCESSWorkshop25 and it was marvelous! Dark Oceanography is an interdisciplinary collaboration that integrating climate science with experimental music by the School of Music and Performance at @monashuniversity.bsky.social and @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social

Presentation on Dark Oceanography,an interdisciplinary collaboration that integrating climate science with experimental music

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 27d

The last Keynote speaker of the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop @renatobrgh.bsky.social form @caltech.edu presented on the challenges of Minding the Carbon Gap: Bridging Observations and Process-Based Understanding for Earth System Modeling Innovation. Lots of food for thought + a great intro to #CliMA

Renato Braghiere presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 on Earth system models

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 27d

We started the second day of the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop with a fantastic keynote from Cat Vreugdenhil from the University of Melbourne, entitled "Ocean convection, circulation and ice shelves: A fine-scale numerical simulation approach to modelling ocean processes"

An image of researcher Cat Vreugdenhil presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025

ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 28d

An insightful presentation from our first keynote speaker Gokhan Danabasoglu from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the US, showing the significant advances and challenges of the high-resolution simulations with the Community Earth System Model (CESM). #ACCESSCommunity25

Researcher Gokhan Danabasoglu from NCAR presenting on high resolution climate models.

Gokhan Danabasoglu with a banner of Australia's climate simulator behind presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025

ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 29d

Our #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop is officially open in Melbourne and we're absolutely overwhelmed by the amazing turnout from our community!
A special acknowledgment to the powerful Welcome to Country ceremony from Wurundjeri Elder Tony Garvey.
Looking forward to three days of talks + discussions!

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · 29d

The ACCESS Training Day 2025 was a success: 5 structured sessions, 9 unstructured sessions and approx 60 participants on topics covering use of the ACCESS models (CM3, ESM1.5, CABLE, AM3, OM3) and GitHub Best practices, evaluating ENSO, Xarray and Dask and more! #NCRISImpact #ACCESSCommunity25 🎉

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are thrilled to announce our three keynote speakers for the 🌏#ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop next week in Melbourne! We have a program full of exciting talks, lunchtime discussions training sessions and opportunities to collaborate.
👩‍🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨‍💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O

Images of the keynote speakers for the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop and a background image of the Australian coast.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy #scienceweek! We support researchers in running models that represent different parts of our Earth: the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land. These models use nature’s hidden language—physics—with the help of powerful supercomputers to decode and better understand Earth’s climate #NCRISImpact

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 5

Woah, the hot spot across the northern Pacific is even more prominent in last month's sea surface temperature map. This is really quite striking! Though the extratropics in both hemispheres are warmer than average too.

Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...

Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in July 2025 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Aug 5

What does an ocean climate model sound like?

Check out this article in The Conversation.

To find out more, why not join the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 from 8–12 September? @navidcy.bsky.social and collaborators have a 15 min plenary talk on this very topic!

🌐 Workshop info: bit.ly/4lH8UA6

Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dark Oceanography project integrates climate science with experimental music, modelling generative oceanic systems of mesoscale eddies in spatial audio and percussion.

Read about the project at theconversation.com/what-would-a...

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What would a climate model made from music sound like? This team of artists and scientists has created one

Music provides opportunities to convey things that words, numbers or images cannot.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Aug 4

3D Visualisation Project EoIs close soon!

Collaborate with ACCESS-NRI on a 3-month visualisation project. We offer technical support and expert guidance to help bring your science to life.

🌐 More info: bit.ly/3IS0ZSb
📝 Apply here: bit.ly/45da2Ex

See a past visualisation project below.

Antarctica Sea Ice Coverage 1978-2023

YouTube video by Australia's climate simulator ACCESS-NRI

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jul 27

Which sessions are you going to?

Draft programs for the ACCESS Community Workshop and ACCESS Training Day are now available!

Check out the fantastic line-up of speakers and topics planned.

👩‍🏫 Workshop program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨‍💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O
🌐 More info: bit.ly/3YRL3V5

A person presents a scientific talk. There is prominent text below the picture that reads "ACCESS Community Workshop 2025: Draft program now available!". There is a green banner in the top right corner that reads "Melbourne 8-12 September".

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Felicity McCormack @fsmccormack.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 Job opportunity 📣
Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling!

You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶

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Navid C @navidcy.bsky.social · Jul 22

Keen to work on ice sheet 🧊🏔️ model development 👩🏾‍💻🌏 with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and @access-nri.bsky.social?

Seize the opportunity!👇🏼

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jul 15

Wondering what ACCESS-NRI is working on and how it may benefit the ACCESS community this year?
We are thrilled to unveil our Annual Work Plan for 2025–2026!
📖Read or download: bit.ly/3IO36Gg
✍️Access the feedback from the ACCESS Community go to the ACCESS-Hive Forum: bit.ly/3Iw1ctV
#NCRISImpact

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jul 13

Want to up your modelling game? Sign up for the ACCESS Training Day 2025!

This event is at Melbourne Connect on 9 September, during the same week as the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025.

📝 Register: bit.ly/4eERwsU
🌐 More info: bit.ly/3YRL3V5

Photograph of two people looking intently at a computer. There is text below the photo that reads "ACCESS Training Day 2025 Registrations open!" and a banner in the top left corner that reads "Melbourne 9 September".

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jul 10

Missed out on submitting your abstract? No worries – you can still submit a poster!

The ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 is at Melbourne Connect on 8–12 September. Registrations are open and poster submissions close 20 July.

📝 Registration: bit.ly/44kYj7y
🧑‍🏫 Poster submission: bit.ly/44FzBOn

Two people point at a scientific poster. There is prominent text below the picture that reads "ACCESS Community Workshop 2025: Poster submissions close 20 July!". There is a green banner in the top left corner that reads "Melbourne 8-12 September".

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our second training workshop at #AMOS2025 on "Working with Australia's climate model output data: first steps for researchers" introduced +25 participants to how to access manage and use data output at the @nci-australia.bsky.social Gadi supercomputer #NCRISImpact #ACCESSImpact

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our User Training lead, Paige Martin at #AMOS2025 talking about how ACCESS-NRI empowers climate modelling through collation, innovation and training. 🌏⛹️‍♀️

Paige Martin speaking with a slide showing the ACCESS Hive platform.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jun 24

Great talk at #AMOS225 by Lachlan Whyborn, from our Land Surface model team on recent developments in the CABLE Surface model including improvements to the water balance and groundwater, as well as other developments on the model workflow. #NCRISImpact

Lachlan Whyborn presenting on recent developments in the CABLE model . You can see the audience and his first slide.

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ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator @access-nri.bsky.social · Jun 24

A great start of Day 2 at #AMOS2025 with our Workshop on Australia's climate and weather models 🌏. 30+ participants enjoyed breakfast, a climate model inspired song/dance, an overview of what climate models are, and an introduction to the role of the different teams at ACCESS-NRI. #NCRISImpact

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