Cultural Object
Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (2005 - )
- From
- 2005
Australia - Alternative Names
- ACCESS (Acronym)
- Website
- https://research.csiro.au/access/
Summary
The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) was initiated in 2005 as a major collaborative undertaking, bringing together the climate observations, research and modelling of the Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau), CSIRO and Australian universities, in consultation with international partners. The result is a weather and climate forecasting system tailored to Australian needs. ACCESS builds on 50 years of Australian expertise in weather and climate forecasting. The system delivers weather forecasts over a few days and projections of climate to the end of this century and beyond.
Details
From https://research.csiro.au/access/about/what/ [2026-05-22]:
What is ACCESS?
ACCESS is a family of related models, configured for specific applications, to meet operational and research needs from weather forecasting to climate projections.
ACCESS, for climate applications, is built from core component models:
* UK Met Office Unified Model (UM) for the atmosphere
* Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange (CABLE) model for the land
* US NOAA/GFDL Modular Ocean Model (MOM) for the ocean
* LANL CICE model for sea-ice.Additional modules support biogeochemistry and atmospheric chemistry.
Different ACCESS model configurations may use a sub-set of the core models for atmosphere-only or ocean-only simulations or may replace component models to meet the needs of a specific application.
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Jakob, Christian; Hogg, Andy; Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah, 'CSIRO is cutting climate science jobs. This is what's at stake for Australia', The Conversation (2026), https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.x9mve6v4k. Details
Gavan McCarthy
Created: 22 May 2026