2nd NGEE Arctic Field-to-Model Workshop

Welcome to the 2nd NGEE Arctic Field-to-Model Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico! Following the project's tradition of bringing modelers to the field, our goal over this 2.5-day workshop is to bring empiricists to the models. We will be providing an introduction to land surface modeling by providing overviews of three different land surface models used across the project.

Location: Drury Hotel, Santa Fe Dates: January 14-16, 2026

Attendees, please see the workshop website for all setup instructions, agendas, and information!

Note

It is highly recommended that you download the workshop containers and input data ahead of time. Setup Instructions found here and additional setup information here

Warning

Windows users will have a longer setup procedure than macOS or Linux users. It is even more strongly recommended that attendees hoping to run the models on a Windows computer work through the setup instructions ahead of the workshop.

Developer Info

Tip

Attendees should be able to ignore this section.

More comprehensive developer information is held in the Developer Notes section of the workshop website, but for a quick start see these instructions.

There are 3 container images for the project:

• a modeling image,
• a visualization image, and
• a documentation builder image.

The modeling image has all the heavy weight modeling tools installed. The visualization image has Jupyter Lab installed, and the documentation builder image has the Sphinx tool installed.

The project used Github Actions to automatically build and publish the images to Docker Hub. Attendees (and for the most part developers too) will begin by pulling the images from DockerHub:

docker pull yuanfornl/ngee-arctic-modex26:models-main-latest
docker pull yuanfornl/ngee-arctic-modex26:vis-main-latest

The documentation builder image is not published, so to work on the documentation, you will need to build the image first:

docker build -t docbuilder --target docbuilder -f Docker/Dockerfile-docs .

and then you can start a "live reload" server that will let you modify the documentation and see a a preview of the webpages in your local browser:

docker run --name docbuilder \
      -p9999:9999 \
      --mount type=bind,src=$(pwd)/docs,dst=/docs \ # bind mount needs abs path!
      -it --rm docbuilder make livehtml

Known issues:

• ERA5 for Bayelva not working currently

Copyright

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