Program for ACCESS Workshop on Land and Coupled Modelling 2026
The ACCESS Community Workshop on Land and Coupled Modelling runs across three days from Monday 31 August to Wednesday 2 September. It contains a mixture of plenary sessions that occur in a single location, parallel sessions, training and informal discussion sessions.
The program is subject to amendments—please revisit this webpage for the most up-to-date version of the program.
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Day 1: Monday 31 August
| Time | Session | Session Chair | Presenter | Title (and link to abstract) |
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| 9:15 – 9:45 | Arrival Registration and tea/coffee | |||
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Housekeeping, Welcome to Country and Introduction | Lachlan Whyborn | Wurundjeri Elder Tony Garvey Andy Hogg |
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| 10:15 – 10:45 | Session 1: Plenary (Keynote Speaker) | Lachlan Whyborn | Gab Abramowitz | The state and future of CABLE - basket case or dark horse? |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Session 2: Plenary (2 speakers) | Wilma Huneke | Alison Bennett** | Disentangling the climatic drivers of Australia's terrestrial carbon cycle |
| Ian Harman | Representing fire within the CABLE land model and ACCESS Earth system models | |||
| 11:45–12:05 | Lightning Talks (9 speakers x 1 min) | Paul Charles Dominic Leopardi (#1) | The CMIP7-Input project: from forcing datasets to model config inputs | |
| Saanvi Deobhankar (#3)* | Understanding the mechanisms linking Antarctic sea ice decline to Australian climate | |||
| Ben Schroeter (#5)** | ACCESS-AM3 Development: Status and Outlook | |||
| Julie Arblaster (#7) | Development of a global high resolution version of ACCESS AM3 | |||
| Christine Chung (#9) | Investigating the Impacts of Tropical Atlantic Variability on the Pacific Warming Trend | |||
| Spencer Wong (#11)** | ACCESS-ESM1.6 Releases: Configurations and Data | |||
| Patrick Brett (#13)* | Investigating model sensitivity to different freshwater forcing distributions using ACCESS-ESM1.5 | |||
| Maria (Valentina) Garcia Alvarado (#15)* | Refactoring and modernising CMIP input processing workflows – an ACCESS-NRI internship project | |||
| Thauana Goncalves (#19)* | Sensitivity of Tropical Atlantic ITCZ migration to AMOC slowdown and shutdown in ACCESS-ESM1.5 | |||
| Siyuan Tian, presenting on behalf of Anna Ukkola (#20) | How well can we simulate land surface processes across Australia? | |||
| 12:05 - 13:00 | Lunch | |||
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Session 3 - 2 Parallel sessions: PS1: Tropical interactions and Southern Ocean science | Spencer Wong | Hao Wang* | Impacts of Relative Atlantic SST Changes on Atlantic–Pacific Transbasin Interactions |
| Abhik Santra | Global rainfall impact of projected tropical Pacific warming pattern uncertainty | |||
| Arnold Sullivan* | Investigating the Oceanic Feedback in ACCESS-CM2: A Heat Budget Analysis of May-June ENSO Dynamics | |||
| David Hutchinson | High CO2 in the Miocene drives oxygen loss in the abyssal ocean and oxygen gain in intermediate waters | |||
| Wilma Huneke** | Missing Antarctic meltwater: Implications for Southern Hemisphere climate projections | |||
| Siobhan O'Farrell | The influence of ocean waves on Antarctic sea-ice albedo and seasonal melting, and potential coupled physical and biological feedbacks | |||
| Session 3 - 2 Parallel sessions: PS2: Land modelling and carbon cycle | Alex Norton | Valentina Marchionni** | Improving soil and vegetation processes in JULES for hydrological applications in Australia | |
| Abhaas Goyal** | metplan: Preprocessing package for the land models meteorological forcings | |||
| Ulrike Bende-Michl | Towards an Australian Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (AusLMIP) for projections | |||
| Joseph Phelps* | The responses of forest carbon and water fluxes to drought in a changing climate | |||
| Umar Farooq** | Beyond Microbes: Integrating Termite-Mediated Decomposition into a Microbial-Explicit Soil Carbon Cycling Model | |||
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Afternoon tea | |||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Poster session | |||
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Training parallel session 1: How to run ESM1.6 | Facilitated by: Spencer Wong (ACCESS-NRI) | Description: This hands-on session will introduce you to running ACCESS-ESM1.6, Australia's Earth system model developed for the CMIP7 Fast Track. This session will cover the steps involved in configuring and running a basic simulation, and will highlight the differences between the new model and ACCESS-ESM1.5. | Training parallel session 1: How to run ESM1.6 |
| Training parallel session 2: How to run AM3 | Facilitated by: Ben Schroeter (ACCESS-NRI | Description: Get hands-on with ACCESS-AM3 - learn how to set up, run, and configure Australia's next-generation atmosphere-land model. Whether you're new to the model or refining your workflow, this session will get you comfortable navigating ACCESS-AM3 and running your own experiments. | Training parallel session 2: How to run AM3 | |
| 18:00 - onwards | Dinner. Venue: Henry and the Fox (Fox's Den area) Address: 525 Little Collins Street, Melbourne Time:Arrival 6pm, Service 6.30pm Food: vegetarian |
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Day 2: Tuesday 1 September
| Time | Session | Session Chair | Presenter | Title |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Arrival | |||
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Housekeeping and Acknowledgement of Country | Julie Arblaster | ||
| 9:05 – 9:35 | Session 4: Plenary (Keynote speaker) | Julie Arblaster | Michael Grose | Climate modelling through to policy outcomes – some thoughts as we enter the CMIP7 era |
| 9:35 – 10:20 | Session 5: Plenary (3 speakers ESM, Land, CMIP7) | Julie Arblaster | Kieran Ricardo** | ACCESS-CM3 Update |
| Wilma Huneke** | Ocean lower overturning dynamics in ACCESS-OM3/CM3-25km | |||
| Jiachen Lu** | Integrating the Urban Climate and Energy Model (UCLEM) into ACCESS-AM3 via CABLE: Model Description and Global Evaluation | |||
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Lightning Talks (10 speakers x 1 min) | Peter van Rensch (#2)** | The stability of Australian seasonal rainfall forecasts in ACCESS-S2 |
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| Deepashree Dutta (#4)** | Role of volcanic eruptions in tropical precipitation variability | |||
| Lachlan Whyborn (#6)** | Ancillary workflow for CABLE and JULES in coupled and standalone modes | |||
| Riyadh Al-Naseri (#8)* | Parametrizing stomatal conductance for Australian vegetation in JULES land surface model | |||
| Theo Ellingsen (#10)* | Model Live Diagnostics – an ACCESS-NRI internship project | |||
| Greta Paget (#12)* | Investigating the relationship between median and extreme temperature changes after emissions cessation | |||
| Manodeep Sinha (#14) | Optimising Coupled ACCESS Models | |||
| Ashley Barnes (#16)** | A new regional coupled climate model in the ACCESS model family | |||
| Helen Shea (#17)* | High and low Antarctic sea ice states in CMIP6 models | |||
| Ariaan Purich (#18)** | Warming of Circumpolar Deep Water drives Antarctic sea ice loss | |||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Poster viewing | |||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Session 6: Plenary (4 speakers) | Zoe Gillett | Jemma Jeffree* | Asymmetry in ENSO prediction is independent of ENSO skewness |
| Shixue Li** | Resolution dependence of Southern Hemisphere tropical–extratropical coupling in MESACLIP | |||
| Pardeep Pall | Characterising distributions of extremes between pre- and post-peak climate overshoot periods in ACCESS-ESM1-5 | |||
| Nicola Maher | What is the most appropriate method to remove the forced signal from climate model simulations? | |||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | Session 7: Plenary (Keynote Speakers) | Lachlan Whyborn | Zoe Gillett** and Tilo Ziehn | ACCESS-ESM1.6 for the CMIP7 Assessment Fast Track - Development and Evaluation |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 8: Plenary (4 speakers) | Alex Norton** | Evaluation of The Global Carbon Cycle in ACCESS-ESM1.6 | |
| Harun Rashid | Drivers of projected Australian rainfall decline in ACCESS-ESM1.5 large ensembles | |||
| Ellie Q. Y. Ong** | The Pacific Warming Pattern Problem: An Earth System Model Ocean’s Inherent El Niño-like Warming Pattern | |||
| Andrew King | Changing carbon budgets accounting for post net-zero climate changes | |||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Afternoon Tea | |||
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Thank you and prizes | Lachlan Whyborn | ||
| 15:45 - 17:15 | Training parallel session 3: Using Benchcab | Facilitated by: Abhaas Ghoyal (ACCESS-NRI) | Description: Interested in contributing to CABLE? The benchcab tool is used to test all contributions to the CABLE source code, and is a requirement for accepting a CABLE pull request. In this training, you will learn about how benchcab works, how to run and compare multiple CABLE versions, and various tips and tricks along the way to help you get started. | Training parallel session 3: Using Benchcab |
| Training parallel session 4: Learn about the ACCESS-NRI Intake Catalogue. | Facilitated by: ACCESS-NRI (TBC) | Description: How to use it analyse and compare model runs, and how to add model runs to the catalogue. | Training parallel session 4: Learn about the ACCESS-NRI Intake Catalogue | |
| 18:00 onwards | Social event Venue Name: Saint and Rogue Address: 582 Little Collins St, Melbourne Timings: 6pm (can arrive early) Food: Canapes |
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Wednesday 2 September
| Time | Session | Presenter | Title |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Arrival Registration and tea/coffee | ||
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Housekeeping and Acknowledgement of Country | ||
| 9:05 – 10:30 | All Day Hackathon and analysis discussion – CMIP7 and analysis of evaluation ACCESS models (ESM1.6 , CM3 and AM3). Description: 1. Round table overview of CMIP7 and discussion, led by Michael Grose. 2. Scoping a potential community paper on Australia in a post net-zero world, led by Andrew King. 3. Overview of the IPCC AR7 process, led by Nicola Maher and Julie Arblaster. | Michael Grose Andrew King Nicola Maher Julie Arblaster | All Day Hackathon and analysis discussion – CMIP7 and analysis of evaluation ACCESS models (ESM1.6 , CM3 and AM3) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Brief presentations: CMIP7 data on NCI: An ACCESS-NRI update (~10 min + Q&A/discussion) Model evaluation, with a focus on CMIP (REF, ESMValTool, ILAMB): Overview (~10 min + Q&A/discussion) Collaborative workflow for evaluation driven model development of CM3 and AM3: Overview (~15 min + Q&A/discussion) Proposed plan for the rest of the day: Split into groups: CMIP publications CM3 AM3 ESM1.6 Note: This plan is flexible. Groups may move to another room at any time for discussions or work relevant to their group. | Chris Bull, Kelsey Druken, Romain Beucher, and (ACCESS-NRI) | Overview of plans for CMIP7 data and evaluation from ACCESS-NRI and NCI |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30 - 15:00 | Discussion session: Split into CMIP publication/model evaluation groups to discuss plans, existing analyses and plans for future. | CMIP and publication model evaluation discussion groups | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Afternoon tea and closing | ||