ACCESS User Training Course Program 21-24 March 2016

IN DEVELOPMENT -- NOT READY FOR VIEWING YET

Presenters: Joao Teixeira, UK Met Office, External Collaboration Team; plus staff from the ACCESS partner organisations.
Venue: Bureau of Meteorology Conference Rooms, Level 6, 700 Collins Street, Docklands.
Introductory Course (Mon-Tue): Rose, Cylc and GA6 UM global model suite.
Advanced Course (Wed-Thu): Building Rose applications from scratch; Coupled Climate and Regional NWP suites.

Program and links to materials

Links here currently just point to sections in the course outline. These will be updated to presentations and practical exercises materials before the course.

Monday 21 March -- ACCESS, Rose-Cylc and UM

9:00		Arrival and pre-workshop setup
9:30	Michael Naughton	Welcome and Introduction
9:35	Martin Dix	Introduction to ACCESS User Facilities
10:00	Joao Teixeira	Introduction to Rose and Cylc (1)
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Introduction to Rose and Cylc (2)
11:40	Joao Teixeira	Introduction to UM (1)
12:30	Lunch (provided)
13:30	Joao Teixeira	Introduction to UM (2)
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with UM suite (1)
16:30	Finish

Tuesday 22 March -- Seasonal Forecasting and Climate Modelling

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Martin Dix	Introduction to ACCESS climate modelling
09:45	Joao Teixeira	HadGEM-GC3 Rose Suite
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with HadGEM-GC3 suite
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Joao Teixeira	Using Iris for UM data visualisation
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with Iris data visualisation

16:30

Finish

Wednesday 23 March -- Numerical Weather Prediction and High Resolution Modelling

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Michael Naughton	Introduction to ACCESS NWP​
09:45	Joao Teixeira	Rose nested suite
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with Rose nested suite
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Joao Teixeira	CreateBC and other NWP tools
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	TBD	NWP verificiation
16:30	Finish

Thursday 24 March -- Development tools and work practices

9:00		Prac and tutorial time
09:30	Joao Teixeira	Rose suite design for any application
10:50	Morning Tea
11:10	Joao Teixeira	Practical exercise with simple Rose suite design
12:30	Lunch break
13:30	Joao Teixeira	Code development working practices, rose stem
14:50	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Joao Teixeira	To be added
16:30	Finish

Other possibilities for Thursday

• Suites for ancillary files (Dix) - Possibly covered in the nested suite?
• STASH

Things to mention

• SCM suite

Links

• ACCESS wiki home page
• ACCESS User Training Mar 2016 main page