NorESM user workshop 2024

[TomasTorsvik]

According to INES2-interim milestones, we should have a NorESM user workshop for 2024. I would like to have some feedback on what would be considered useful for the user community. I think it would be nice to have a different topic from last year, maybe targeting more advanced use cases. Please add comments with your suggestions below.

Here are some suggestions to get the discussion started:

• Getting started with NorESM (similar to the 2023 workshop)
• Workflows for CMIP simulations (e.g. procedures for model spin-up, tuning, component tuning vs coupled system)
• Processing NorESM model output, beyond the standard diagnostics (e.g. extending standard diagnostics package, CMORize data, ESMValTool for NorESM, what is needed for "CMORize-on-the-fly" solution? (implemented for some CMIP6 models), other post-processing tools?)

[kjetilaas]

I like the idea of having a more advanced user workshop. Personally, I would have been interested in workflows for CMIP simulations. It would align well with the needs of the consortium could be useful for many users. Especially if we could exchange experiences across components.

[adagj]

We had a 3 hour workshop with Steve and Mariana last Friday on workflow for setting up reproducible experiments (and easy shareable). They also showed a lot of existing tools, some that at least I didn't know about. We also discussed git habits. I think it was very useful and it could easily be expanded to a two days workshop if we include exercises for e.g. making reproducible cases with scripting, creating new compsets, git stuff, and also make time for discussions :)

[adagj]

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[TomasTorsvik]

It would be nice to have some more sharing of tools and workflows within the development group, as well as within the larger user community. We touched upon this also in the user workshop last year. I'm not sure this should be the only topic for the user workshop, but it could be a part.

[jmaerz]

A nice outcome could be to come to a shared archive for such tools (potentially evaluated with a 4 eyes principle).

[YanchunHe]

'CMORize-on-the-fly' was part of the plan in the INES2 proposal for BLOM. It is more challenging for other components, as they have more numbers of different variables. I will end up with a mixture of cmorized output (time series per variable per file), and current format (many variables per time slice/file.).

[TomasTorsvik]

I see, so probably "CMORize-on-the-fly" should not be a topic for a workshop this year.

[hgoelzer]

I like the idea of a workshop element that targets people (like me) that contribute to the development. Maybe not exclusively, as beginner workshops are also very important.

[TomasTorsvik]

I have in mind that we run the beginner workshop at 2 year intervals. The workshop should be open for all users, but otherwise we can make it in whatever way we find most beneficial. Do you have an specific topics in mind?

[hgoelzer]

Sounds good. I would be interested in a user level workflow for NorESM (using compsets, using data models, options, ...) and in a developer level course (creating new compsets, setting up new grids, ...)