The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator: ACCESS
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator: ACCESS
Editor(s): GMD topic editors | Coordinator: Rachel Law
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, ACCESS, is Australia’s national modelling system for all timescales from weather forecasting to climate projections. ACCESS is a family of related models, configured for specific applications, to meet operational and research needs. ACCESS is built from core component models: the UK Met Office Unified Model (UM) for the atmosphere, the Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model for the land, the US NOAA/GFDL Modular Ocean Model (MOM) for the ocean and the LANL CICE model for sea ice. Additional modules support biogeochemistry and atmospheric chemistry. Different ACCESS model configurations may use a subset of the core models for atmosphere-only or ocean-only simulations or may replace component models to meet the needs of a specific application. This special issue brings together papers that describe ACCESS model configurations and code development, as well as papers that evaluate the performance of the model across any ACCESS application.

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11 Apr 2024
A machine learning approach for evaluating Southern Ocean cloud radiative biases in a global atmosphere model
Sonya L. Fiddes, Marc D. Mallet, Alain Protat, Matthew T. Woodhouse, Simon P. Alexander, and Kalli Furtado
Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2641–2662, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2641-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2641-2024, 2024
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29 Jan 2024
Performance and process-based evaluation of the BARPA-R Australasian regional climate model version 1
Emma Howard, Chun-Hsu Su, Christian Stassen, Rajashree Naha, Harvey Ye, Acacia Pepler, Samuel S. Bell, Andrew J. Dowdy, Simon O. Tucker, and Charmaine Franklin
Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 731–757, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-731-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-731-2024, 2024
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16 Apr 2020
Parallel I∕O in Flexible Modelling System (FMS) and Modular Ocean Model 5 (MOM5)
Rui Yang, Marshall Ward, and Ben Evans
Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 1885–1902, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1885-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1885-2020, 2020
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05 Feb 2020
ACCESS-OM2 v1.0: a global ocean–sea ice model at three resolutions
Andrew E. Kiss, Andrew McC. Hogg, Nicholas Hannah, Fabio Boeira Dias, Gary B. Brassington, Matthew A. Chamberlain, Christopher Chapman, Peter Dobrohotoff, Catia M. Domingues, Earl R. Duran, Matthew H. England, Russell Fiedler, Stephen M. Griffies, Aidan Heerdegen, Petra Heil, Ryan M. Holmes, Andreas Klocker, Simon J. Marsland, Adele K. Morrison, James Munroe, Maxim Nikurashin, Peter R. Oke, Gabriela S. Pilo, Océane Richet, Abhishek Savita, Paul Spence, Kial D. Stewart, Marshall L. Ward, Fanghua Wu, and Xihan Zhang
Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 401–442, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-401-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-401-2020, 2020
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06 Jul 2017
The carbon cycle in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-ESM1) – Part 1: Model description and pre-industrial simulation
Rachel M. Law, Tilo Ziehn, Richard J. Matear, Andrew Lenton, Matthew A. Chamberlain, Lauren E. Stevens, Ying-Ping Wang, Jhan Srbinovsky, Daohua Bi, Hailin Yan, and Peter F. Vohralik
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2567–2590, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2567-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2567-2017, 2017
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06 Jul 2017
The carbon cycle in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-ESM1) – Part 2: Historical simulations
Tilo Ziehn, Andrew Lenton, Rachel M. Law, Richard J. Matear, and Matthew A. Chamberlain
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2591–2614, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2591-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2591-2017, 2017
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23 Aug 2016
The impact of changing the land surface scheme in ACCESS(v1.0/1.1) on the surface climatology
Eva A. Kowalczyk, Lauren E. Stevens, Rachel M. Law, Ian N. Harman, Martin Dix, Charmaine N. Franklin, and Ying-Ping Wang
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2771–2791, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2771-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2771-2016, 2016
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07 Jun 2016
Atmosphere-only GCM (ACCESS1.0) simulations with prescribed land surface temperatures
Duncan Ackerley and Dietmar Dommenget
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2077–2098, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2077-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2077-2016, 2016
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08 Dec 2015
Implementation of an optimal stomatal conductance scheme in the Australian Community Climate Earth Systems Simulator (ACCESS1.3b)
J. Kala, M. G. De Kauwe, A. J. Pitman, R. Lorenz, B. E. Medlyn, Y.-P Wang, Y.-S Lin, and G. Abramowitz
Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 3877–3889, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3877-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3877-2015, 2015
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03 Jun 2015
A spectral nudging method for the ACCESS1.3 atmospheric model
P. Uhe and M. Thatcher
Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1645–1658, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1645-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1645-2015, 2015
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04 Apr 2014
Representation of climate extreme indices in the ACCESS1.3b coupled atmosphere–land surface model
R. Lorenz, A. J. Pitman, M. G. Donat, A. L. Hirsch, J. Kala, E. A. Kowalczyk, R. M. Law, and J. Srbinovsky
Geosci. Model Dev., 7, 545–567, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-545-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-545-2014, 2014
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