November 7, 2024
By: Claire Carouge, Team Leader of the Land Surface Modelling Team
The ACCESS Community Land Surface Modelling Working Group held its annual workshop on the 9th and 10th of October at CSIRO – Black Mountain, Canberra.
The workshop was attended by 15 people in person and half a dozen online. The first day of the workshop included presentations and discussions.
The presentations covered topics such as:
- Results from past experiments
- Work plans from various groups
- Recent model developments.
The discussions held during the day focused on priorities for land surface model development, identifying synergies between groups as well as roadblocks for these developments and land-atmosphere interactions. The discussions centered on ways to evaluate these interactions, including existing experiment designs and observational datasets, and model development challenges. Finally, we discussed common datasets we would like to have available to use for CABLE and JULES.
The second day was quite different. We organised a “working bee” day aiming to develop similar configurations for CABLE and JULES. This project has several goals. The scientific goal is a joint publication on the evaluation of the differences inherent to the two land surface models while minimising the impacts due to different inputs. We will also identify useful datasets for the community that will then be put forward as candidates for a data collection published at NCI.
This project will also create a shared, generic workflow to generate input datasets for CABLE. JULES already has managed tools to create its inputs, but these are missing and needed for the CABLE community. This workflow will be created to be applicable to CABLE applications standalone and coupled within ACCESS. This working bee day allowed the community to start identifying tools, datasets and ways to handle the project.
Overall, the workshop was well received by the community. It allowed the land surface modelling community to connect together and understand the goals of the various groups within the community.
This will permit us to progress towards more collaborative projects of interest across the community.