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Evaluation recipes

There is a range of resources supported by ACCESS-NRI and created by the community to evaluate model data and compare it to observations. Researchers can build on existing code to suit their interests and load data formatted for comparison to model experiments.

Prerequisites

For running these evaluation recipes on Gadi it is expected you would be familar with ARE and the conda/analysis3 Python environment. For guidance on usage:

ACCESS Evaluation Recipes

ACCESS-NRI have assisted in writing a collection of jupyter notebooks utilising the ESMValTool framework and initially focused on the CLIVAR ENSO metrics package.

You can find a notebook for each metric in the repository. Get started by cloning the repository on Gadi and using the conda/analysis3 Python environment.

This collection has expanded to include Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) recipes, tutorials, and exercises, as well as ocean recipes ported into the ESMValCore/ESMValTool framework on Gadi. These leverage ESMValCore's built-in data discovery, loading, and preprocessing capabilities, and can be found in the repository subfolders.

Relationship to ESMValTool and notebook-based recipes

These notebook-based workflows provide an accessible starting point for analysing climate data on Gadi and developing the diagnostic. They can be adapted by cloning the repository and editing as needed, and are open to collaborations with researchers. Because the framework is built on ESMValCore, converting a notebook to an ESMValTool YAML configuration is straightforward, enabling diagnostics to be run across multiple models in bulk.

Community Evaluation Recipes

ACCESS-OM3

The ACCESS-OM3 model evaluation team is a community-based group helping with ACCESS-OM3 evaluation and development. Contributions from people of all career stages and backgrounds are highly encouraged.

All community members can get write access to the ACCESS-OM3 evaluation repository by creating an issue (using this issue template) and requesting access.

Evaluation figures are being coordinated within the repository issue #23. Instructions to get started can be found in the repository README.

ACCESS-CM3

A collaborative project for evaluation of ACCESS-CM3 can be found in the access-cm3-paper-1 repository.

All community members can get write access to the ACCESS-CM3 evaluation repository by creating an issue (using this issue template) and requesting access.

Instructions to get started can be found in the repository README.

Join the conversation!

For both ACCESS-OM3 and ACCESS-CM3, you can also join the conversation on the ACCESS-Hive Forum, in the respective COSIMA or ESM working groups.

COSIMA cookbook

The COSIMA cookbook has tutorials and recipes to help the community get started on writing their own recipes. See this COSIMA cookbook page to get started.