ACCESS-NRI at the Global KM-Scale Hackathon

The Australian node of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Global KM-Scale Hackathon took place in Canberra from May 12-16, alongside 9 other nodes spread across the Americas Europe, and Asia.

The Canberra event was run by 21st Century Weather, with support from ACCESS-NRI and NCI. The hackathon focused on using “storm resolving”, high resolution model output from two European-based models.

The 60 in-person participants, who came from universities and organisations across Australia (and 3 from international institutions), split into teams to investigate different science questions, including the evaluation of tropical cyclones and extreme precipitation in the models.

ACCESS-NRI supported the event by providing the NCI project for compute and user-generated data storage, assisting with training on Git and GitHub, and providing in-person technical help during the week. The teams accomplished an amazing amount during the week, showing off interesting and insightful visualisations and other results by the end of the week, capping off a successful week!