ACCESS Community Workshop on Land and Coupled Modelling

August 31, 2026 - September 2, 2026

The ACCESS Workshop on Land and Coupled Modelling will be held at Melbourne. Join us for three exciting days of events from 31 August – 2  September 2026.

Workshop themes:

  • Coupled modelling
    • Uses of Earth System Models versus Climate Models
    • Response of the Earth system to externally forced changes
    • Ocean-atmosphere-ice interactions
    • Tropical climate variability and change (e.g. double ITCZ, El Niño Southern Oscillation, tropical Pacific SST trends)
    • Representation of convection and deep ocean circulation at high latitudes
    • Pathway towards high resolution coupled modelling with ACCESS.

    Land modelling:

    • Treatment of the carbon cycle in land models
    • Latest developments in soil moisture and energy dynamics
    • Characterisation and behaviour of Australian vegetation
    • Modelling urban environments
    • Land-atmosphere interactions.

    CMIP7:

    • State of the CMIP7 Fast Track submission (ACCESS-ESM1.6). Spin-up, scenarios and evaluation
    • Latest developments in ACCESS-CM3, ACCESS-AM3, ACCESS-OM3 and progress towards ACCESS-ESM3
    • Understanding, attribution and projections using CMIP7 Fast Track experiments: from Australasia to global
    • Use of the Rapid Evaluation Framework for CMIP7 evaluation & research
    • New emission-driven scenarios including net zero and overshoots.

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