Introduction
This workshop will demonstrate how to access and navigate through the BARRA2 and BARPA datasets, both available at NCI.
The BARRA2 reanalysis dataset provides researchers with historical long-term and spatially complete records of the atmosphere from 1979 to the present day.
BARPA are climate simulations based on CORDEX-CMIP6 (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) experiment design, providing CMIP6 downscaled data for historical, SSP1-2.6 and SSP3-7.0 scenarios.
Participants will be guided on how to find information on, how to gain access to, and how to navigate through the BARRA2 & BARPA datasets.
Participants are expected to have access to NCI, some familiarity with Python, and will be guided through a series of demonstrative Python notebooks.
Prerequisites
In order to participate in the practise sessions and actually run your own suite during the workshop, please check the prerequisite list below. Please note that after your account has been approved for access to these projects, you need to logout and back in again for your current session.
- NCI account & valid password,
- Register for the following project memberships at NCI
- Familiarise yourself with using the NCI ARE environment for running Jupyter notebooks and VDI:
- ARE intro, and also starting up Jupyterlab
- NCI analysis environment and intake (and particularly intake-esm)
- Familiarise yourself with current CORDEX CMIP6-compliant data, and NCI data catalogue entries for BARRAv2/BARPA
Agenda
Date: Monday 5 February, 2024 Location: Rm 402, Marie Reay Teaching Centre - Kambri on ANU Campus, Canberra, Australia Convenors: Joshua Torrance (BOM), Chun-Hsu Su (BOM) | ||
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| Time | Item | Speaker |
10:30 AM | Morning tea | |
11:00 AM (15 mins) | Overview
| Chun-Hsu Su (BOM) |
11:15 AM (15 mins) | Data Access
| Jo Croucher (NCI) and Yiling Liu (NCI) |
11:30 AM (25 mins) | Working with ARE and the NCI analysis environment Follow the instructions for the hands-on session for all these examples
| Rui Yang (NCI) and Joshua Torrance (BOM) |
11:55 AM (20 mins) | BARRA2: Heatwave case study Notebooks are available under the github link for this workshop. See the hand's on session link below. | Chun-Hsu Su |
12:15 PM (2x20 mins) | BARPA: two use cases
Notebooks are available under the github link for this workshop. See the hand's on session link below. | |
| 12:55 PM (5 min) | Where to go from here
| Chun-Hsu Su |
| 1:00 PM | Workshop close | |
Hands-on session
Please follow the instructions for the hands on exercises of the workshop. This includes the github link for the jupyter notebooks for the case studies.
References
NCI data catalogue for further information on the data products, licenses and data access | |
BARRA2 | |
BARPA | |
Extended Metadata on FAQ and data known issues | |
BARRA2 | |
BARPA | |
Acknowledgements
The development and provision of the BARRA2 regional reanalysis and BARPA regional climate projections data are undertaken by the Bureau of Meteorology and supported by the Australian Climate Service (ACS, https://www.acs.gov.au/). They are undertaken with the assistance of resources and services from NCI (https://nci.org.au/), which is supported by the Australian Government.
The availability of BARRA2 and BARPA data at NCI has been made possible through the ACS, and support of NCI.
This workshop is organised with funding from ACS and with support of NCI.