BAMOS April 2025
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My experience at the CAPE-k Summer School
Tahereh Alinejadtabrizi, Monash University( tahereh. alinejadtabrizi @ monash. edu)
The team on the site visit to Kennaook / Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station. Credit: Scott Collis
Between February 2 and 7, I had the opportunity, alongside other students, to attend the Cloud and Precipitation Experiment at kennaook( CAPE-k) Summer School in Stanley, Tasmania.
Over four days, we analysed state-of-the-art atmospheric data, attended keynote lectures, participated in an exciting hackathon, and visited the Kennaook / Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station( KCGBAPS).
KCGBAPS is one of three‘ superstations’ of the World Meteorological Organization Global Atmosphere Watch program which has been monitoring pristine air masses from the Southern Ocean for more than four decades, collecting crucial data on aerosols.
Running from April 2024 to September 2025, the CAPE-k project will complement this long-term measurement with advanced cloud and aerosol instruments and address critical gaps in cloud and precipitation simulations over the Southern Ocean. The project is a collaboration between CSIRO, the BOM and the
United States Department of Energy’ s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement( ARM) user facility.
The CAPE-k Summer School was designed to support this research effort by equipping early-career researchers with the necessary skills to analyze and interpret cloud and precipitation data from the Kennaook / Cape Grim field site using open-source tools. The Summer School lasted a week, with an ice-breaker on the first day, followed by three workshop days, and a return home on February 7. Here’ s an overview of how the three workshop days went.
Workshop day 1
We started the first workshop day by familiarising ourselves with the Summer School’ s GitHub repository, where we accessed relevant datasets, documentation, and coding resources. Dr Scott Collis and Mr Max Grover from ARM guided this session, ensuring we could navigate the available tools. The day continued with keynote lectures introducing fundamental meteorological and chemical science topics.