Drop-in Q&A and Discussion Session: CMIP7 Evaluation Hackathon & ESMValTool-workflow

About this event

This event is for anyone who has expressed interest in attending the CMIP7 Evaluation Hackathon (being held March 12-14 in Aspendale, VIC – details and registration link here). The session will be led by Dr Romain Beucher, ACCESS-NRI's Model Evaluation and Diagnostics (MED) Team Lead. He will present a brief introduction to the goals and sessions of the hackathon, as well as a brief overview of the ESMValTool-workflow, which will be one of the main topics at the hackathon.

After the introductory presentations from Romain, the remainder of the time will be an informal Q&A/discussion where attendees can ask questions and share ideas about the hackathon and ESMValTool. The aims of this session are:

1. to help potential attendees of the hackathon get started using ESMValTool on NCI so that they can make the most of the trainings and discussions during the hackathon.
2. to gather ideas and suggested topics to kick-start discussions at the hackathon.

For background, the Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) is an open-source community-developed diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation and analysis of Earth System Models (ESMs). The ESMValTool-workflow is the ACCESS-NRI supported workflow for running the ESMValTool at NCI, and includes the ESMValTool Python package and collection of recipes, diagnostics and observational datasets. It is also configured to leverage the existing CMIP data collections at NCI.

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in attending the CMIP7 Evaluation Hackathon is welcome and encouraged to attend. All levels of experience with ESMValTool are welcome.

Prerequisites

To run the ESMValTool workflow at NCI, at a minimum you will need:

• An active NCI account. If you do not hold a valid NCI account, please contact access.nri@anu.edu.au for further information.
• Join the NCI project xp65.
• Join the NCI project nf33 (for ACCESS-NRI training)
• Join the ACCESS-NRI replicated data collection for Model Evaluation.
  
  To get the most out of this session, before attending we also strongly encourage participants to:

• Watch: What is ESMValTool?
• Watch: ESMValTool – NCI quickstart guide
• Work through the ESMValTool-workflow guide and examples--
  
  Please note: Depending on your evaluation interests, you may also need to join several data collection projects. These may include:

• CMIP6: fs38, oi10
• CMIP5: rr3, al33
• ERA5 and ERA5-Land: rt52, zz93
• obs4MIPs: qv56
  
  Optional
• Watch additional videos from ACCESS-NRI's ESMValTool YouTube playlist.
• ESMValTool’s collection of tutorials.

More information

Zoom details will be emailed to registered attendees prior to the event.

For any questions, please contact the ACCESS-NRI team at access.nri@anu.edu.au.

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