Admin
Organisation
Research programs (RPs) and RP leads
Research Program | RP leads | CMS person |
Climate Variability | Andy Hogg, Mat England, Dietmar Dommenget, Neil Holbrooke | Aidan Heerdegen, Holger Wolff |
Heatwaves and Cold air outbreaks | Michael Reeder, Jason Evans | Paola Petrelli |
Rainfall Extremes | Todd Lane, | Scott Wales |
Drought | Mike Roderick, Andy Pitman (?) | Danny Eisenberg |
CIs
Andy Pitman: Director Todd Lane: Vice-director Christian Jakob Michael Reeder Dietmar Dommenget Steven Sherwood Lisa Alexander Julie Arblaster Nerilie Abram Gab Abramowitz Nathaniel Bindoff Jason Evans Andy Hogg Peter Strutton
Policies
Blogposts
The roster for the blogposts is:
- Claire - start week of 03/08
- Holger - start week of 10/08
- Paola - start week of 17/08
- Aidan - start week of 24/08
- Danny - start week of 31/08
- Scott - start week of 7/09
Follow instructions on this Trello card: [[1]]
News
To communicate new work:
- update all documentation
- advertise on CMS news page
Help desk
There is now a roster for the help desk:
Monday | Aidan |
Tuesday | Scott |
Wednesday | Holger |
Thursday | Claire / Danny |
Friday | Paola |
Main tasks on "help desk day" are:
- Helpdesk
- Documentation / training update
- Other work
Priorities
We need to update our priorities regularly (~3 months). Update on Trello (and/or spreadsheet?) in consultation with the Infrastructure Committee. Communicate to CIs.
NCI Projects husbandry
- Every 6 months, send a list of members for each CoE projects to CIs. It's a reminder to clean up the memberships.
- Everyone is in charge of caring for one or several projects. See tables below.
- Need to keep track every week or so of the storage and SU usage (use ncimonitor)
- Contact users if people are on track to exceed storage
- Contact Aidan if people are on track to exceed SU.
NCI Projects
FlagshipC:
Project | Lead CI | CIs | Description | Carer |
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w48 | Dietmar Dommenget | Global scale decadal climate variability in a ACCESS hierarchy of climate models | Holger | |
w42 | Abhnil Prasad | The effects of tropical convection on Australia's climate | Claire | |
v45 | Andy Hogg | Mechanisms and attribution of past and future ocean circulation change | Aidan | |
w97 | Jason Evans | Lisa Alexander, Andrew King | Mechanisms and attribution of changes in Australian climate extremes | Scott |
w40 | Todd Lane | Atmospheric and oceanic processes and dynamics | Scott | |
w58 | Michael Reeder (superscience) | The dynamics of subtropical anticyclones and the connection to drought, heatwaves and bushfires in southern Australia | Holger | |
w35 | Claire Carouge | Terrestrial modelling within the Centre of Excellence regionalizing land surface processes | Danny | |
access | Claire Carouge or Scott Wales | Group to run the ACCESS model and get access to some additional modules (useful for Python). |
Other CoE-Related:
Compute
dt6 | Andy Pitman | Land stuff |
Storage
Project | Lead CI | Description | Carer |
---|---|---|---|
ua8 | Paola Petrelli | ARCCSS and CLEX data | Paola |
ub4 | Paola Petrelli | Era-Interim Data | Paola |
rr3 | Kate Snow | ESGF CMIP5 Australian Data Publication | Paola |
al33 | Kate Snow | ESGF CMIP5 Data Replication | Paola |
oi10 | Kate Snow | ESGF CMIP6 Data Replication | Paola |
p66 | Tony Hirst | ACCESS GCM | |
rq5 | Paola Petrelli | OFES | Paola |
rq7 | Paola Petrelli | YOTC | Paola |
rr4 | BoM ACCESS NWP data | ||
rr7 | Aurel Moise, Paola Petrelli |
Reanalyses | Paola |
wd9 | Paola Petrelli | CABLE evaluation datasets | Paola |
hh5 | Claire Carouge | Climate LIEF storage grant | Paola |
Cloud projects
fe2_2 | ARCCSS cloud | |
ju7_1 | CWSlab |
Requesting Met Office accounts for users
New accounts need a sponsor from their institution Sponsors are listed at https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/admin/wiki/GroupSponsors, Current ARCCSS sponsors are Scott, Claire and Holger Instructions for an account request are at https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/admin/wiki/NewUserChecklist
In brief, create a ticket at https:code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/admin/newticket?type=account-request with the user's name and email address, like https:code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/admin/ticket/758
Useful contacts
DATA | |
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Ben Evans | ben.evans@anu.edu.au |
Claire Trenham | |
Clare Richards | clare.richards@anu.edu.au |
Jon Smilie |
User Support | |
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Roger Edberg | roger.edberg@anu.edu.au |
Brian Davis | brian.davis@anu.edu.au |
ACCESS | ||
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Bob Pitt | In charge of access-svn.nci.org.au. (e.g. certificate renewal etc) |
conda environment
CMS maintains an anaconda installation on the NCI systems. To add new packages to the unstable analysis environments clone the | conda-envs repository. The master branches contains nothing but a README. The magic happens in other branches. There are two branches, analysis27}} and{{analysis3, for the python2 and python3 environments.
Checkout an analysis branch, add the package name to environment.yml and then commit your change. If the package is to be added to both branches checkout the other branch and make the same change and commit.
Next push altered branches to the repository. If both branches have been updated push both at the same time:
git push origin analysis27 analysis3
Pushing the branches will trigger testing and updating on the jenkins instance. The status of the conda environment update is viewable here:
https://accessdev.nci.org.au/jenkins/blue/pipelines?search=conda
Tips and tricks if problems with conda environments
- Scott said: "for whatever reason (something to do with external c libraries I think) loading packages is sometimes order-dependent." If a package breaks the tests, put its import at the top of the list. It would then be loaded before whatever package is causing the issue.