Case studies | ACCESS-NRI

A homegrown climate model built for Australia, tested on the world stage

ACCESS models and expertise of researchers are helping to understand Australia’s future climate, as part of the International Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7)

Simulating how the ocean’s deepest waters form beneath Antarctica

Researchers are using the high-resolution ocean-sea ice model, ACCESS-OM, to follow dense water as it forms beneath Antarctic sea ice and cascades into the abyss….

Visualising uncharted climate futures: Pacific warming trends

What do tropical Pacific warming trends mean for Australia’s future climate? Every few years, Australians brace for the swing between potential drought and floods: the…

Enabling researchers to understand weather extremes through the lens of a regional model

Australia’s climate simulator (ACCESS-NRI) released ACCESS-rAM3, a fully supported regional atmosphere and land model built to simulate extreme weather, such as cyclones, floods, and heatwaves, which are not captured by the wide-angle lens of global climate models.

A software time dial for the paleoclimate community

The ACCESS-NRI team has added a “time dial” into the Earth System Model (ACCESS-ESM1.5) that allows paleoclimate researchers to match the right value of Earth’s orbit around the Sun during different past climates.

Menus that save paleoclimate researcher’s time

The ACCESS-NRI team has added a “Menu” into the Earth System Model (ACCESS-ESM1.5) that allows paleoclimate researchers to customise the model output by choosing presets of the variables they want to simulate, as well as the data they want to keep.

ACCESS models help to unveil the causes of the unprecedented 2023 North Atlantic Ocean heatwave

A paper published recently in Nature using two ACCESS models, has revealed the drivers of a marine heatwave that swept across the North Atlantic Ocean…