5th ECMWF-ESA Machine Learning Workshop
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Location: Botte B4 pavilion - DAMA Technopole
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| Monday, 13 April 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Opening and keynote
Session chairs: Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF) and Rochelle Schneider (ESA)
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| 12:00 – 13:00 | Registration and coffee | |
| 13:00 – 13:10 |
Opening and welcome
Video recording |
Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
Rochelle Schneider (ESA)
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| 13:10 – 13:40 |
AI for Humanity: Foundational Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for a Resilient Earth
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Rossella Arcucci (Imperial College London)
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| 13:40 – 14:10 |
Machine learning–driven advances in geophysical data assimilation
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Marc Bocquet (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and ECMWF Fellow)
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| 14:10 – 17:10 | Poster session and ice breaker | |
| 14:10 – 15:10 | Coffee and posters | |
| 15:10 – 17:10 | Aperitivo cocktail reception and posters | |
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Aperitivo sponsored by the University of Bologna, the Alma Climate Institute
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Location: Botte B4 pavilion - DAMA Technopole
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| Tuesday, 14 April 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Session 1.1: TA1 ML4DTE system
Session chairs: Rochelle Schneider (ESA) and Mounia El Baz (ESA) |
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| 08:00 – 08:30 |
CLIM4health: from Citizen Science, Machine Learning and Earth Observation towards Urban Climate Services
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Ana Oliveira (CoLAB +ATLANTIC)
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| 08:30 – 08:50 |
The WeatherGenerator Project: Building a multi-modal, multi-resolution Foundation Model for Weather and Climate science
Presentation slides Video recording |
Ilaria Luise (ECMWF)
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| 08:50 – 09:10 |
Lessons from Weather: Adapting GraphCast for Global Ocean Forecasting
Presentation slides Video recording |
Stefano Campanella (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics - OGS, University of Trieste)
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| 09:10 – 09:30 |
High-Resolution Thermal Mapping for Land Cover Intervention Planning
Presentation slides Video recording |
Hugo Poupard (Murmuration-SAS)
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| 09:30 – 09:50 |
Bris and Forecast-in-a-Box: Applications and results for Malawi.
Presentation slides Video recording |
Lene Østvand (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute)
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| 09:50 – 10:20 | Group photo and coffee break | |
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Session 1.2: TA1 ML4DTE system
Session chairs: Rochelle Schneider (ESA) and Mounia El Baz (ESA)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Probing sensitivities in sea ice surrogate models toward probabilistic forecasting
Presentation slides Video recording |
Flavia Porro (University of Bologna)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Downscaling of vertical profiles of mean and turbulent atmospheric variables using deep learning
Presentation slides Video recording |
Maximilian Pierzyna (Technische Universiteit Delft)
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| 11:20 – 11:40 |
Generative Adversarial Networks for Simulating Dynamic Interactions in Digital Twins of Coastal Ecosystems
Online presentationPresentation slides Video recording |
Oscar Leung (HKU)
Ye Ha Kim (UCL)
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| 11:00 – 11:20 |
AI Climate Emulators as Tools for Reducing Weather Risk Uncertainty: Insights from a Large-Ensemble Approach
Presentation slides Video recording |
Amaury Lancelin (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Ecole Normale Supérieure, RTE)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 |
Going with the flow: generalising physically consistent data-driven sea-ice models
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Tobias Finn (CEREA, ENPC, EDF R&D, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
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| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
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Session 1.3: TA1 ML4DTE system
Session chairs: Rochelle Schneider (ESA) and Mounia El Baz (ESA)
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| 13:30 – 13:50 |
A New Concept for Comparing Satellite Observations and km-scale Atmospheric Simulations using Self-Supervised Machine Learning
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Dwaipayan Chatterjee (Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
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| 13:50 – 14:10 |
SHRUG-FM: Reliability-Aware Foundation Models for Earth Observation
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Joppe Massant (Ghent University)
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| 14:10 – 14:30 |
Evaluation of GraphCast and PanguWeather over India and Downscaling using WRF for Simulating the 2023 North Indian Floods
Online presentationPresentation slides |
Balu Shaharica (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
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| 14:30 – 15:10 |
TA1 - Open discussion
Video recording |
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| 15:10 – 15:40 | Coffee break | |
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Session 2.1: TA2 Hybrid ML-Physics based systems for DA and Weather and Climate prediction
Session chairs: Rossella Arcucci (Imperial College) and Marc Bocquet (ENPC)
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| 15:40 – 16:00 |
Advancing Global Weather Prediction at ECCC Using Spectral-Nudging-Based Hybrid NWP-MLWP Modelling
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Leo Separovic (Environment and Climate Change Canada)
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| 16:00 – 16:20 |
Hybrid NWP-AI at Météo-France : nudging AIFS large scales in the global NWP operational model ARPEGE
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Vincent Chabot (Météo France)
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| 16:20 – 16:40 |
Enhanced land surface data exploitation using machine learning
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Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF)
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Location: Botte B4 pavilion - DAMA Technopole
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| Wednesday, 15 April 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Session 2.2:
Session chairs: Rossella Arcucci (Imperial College) and Marcin Chrust (ECMWF)
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| 08:00 – 08:30 |
Data Assimilation in the era of the AI revolution - where we stand today
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Steve Penny (Sofar Ocean)
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| 08:30 – 08:50 |
Development of an offline and online hybrid model for the Integrated Forecasting System
Presentation slides Video recording |
Alban Farchi (ECMWF)
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| 08:50 – 09:10 |
Online bias-correction in sea-ice models using machine learning and data assimilation
Presentation slides Video recording |
Giovanni De Cillis (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
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| 09:10 – 09:30 |
RUSH: Rapid-Update High-Resolution precipitation nowcasting and Global AI/NWP downscaling in a single Latent-Diffusion model
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Simon De Kock (Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Coffee break | |
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Session 2.3: TA2
Session chairs: Rossella Arcucci (Imperial College) and Marcin Chrust (ECMWF)
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| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Hybrid machine learning and ensemble data assimilation
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Wei Pan (ECMWF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Machine Learning-Driven Background Error Covariances for High-Resolution Data Assimilation
Presentation slides Video recording |
Ravi Shankar Nemani (School of Mathematical, Physical & CompUniversity of Reading and National Centre for Earth Observation)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Multi-hazard nowcasting system over Romania
Online presentationPresentation slides Video recording |
Claudiu Adam (National Meteorological Administration)
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| 11:00 – 11:20 |
Unmasking Compensating Biases: A Process-Partitioned Neural Network Approach
Presentation slides Video recording |
Yuiko Ichikawa (University of Cambridge)
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| 11:20 – 12:00 |
TA2 - Open discussion
Video recording |
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| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
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Session 3.1: TA3 ML applications for Earth system observations
Session chairs: Maryam Pourshamsi (ESA) and Chiara Maria Cocchiara (ESA)
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| 13:30 – 14:00 |
Harnessing Satellite Data and AI to Address Climate Hazards for Children
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Do-hung Kim (UNICEF)
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| 14:00 – 14:20 |
Collaborative Labelling of Earth System Features in Satellite Data for Nowcasting and Climate Applications
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Lauren Biermann (EUMETSAT)
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| 14:20 – 14:40 |
Machine-learning-based observation operators for land-surface data assimilation
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Peter Weston (ECMWF)
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| 14:40 – 15:00 |
A data-driven reanalysis of Amazon water levels with deep learning
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Ruben Cartuyvels (ESA)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
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Session 3.2: TA3
Session chairs: Maryam Pourshamsi (ESA) and Chiara Maria Cocchiara (ESA)
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| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Benchmarking Earth Observation embeddings for large scale aboveground biomass mapping
Presentation slides Video recording |
Yu-Feng Ho (OpenGeoHub)
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Contrail Instance Segmentation on Geostationary Imagery
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Ana Maria Pelin (EUROCONTROL & TU Delft)
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| 16:10 – 16:30 |
GridShield™: A Hybrid ML-Satellite Fusion Framework for Real-Time Power Grid Resilience and Climate-Verified Carbon Credit Generation Using ESA Copernicus Sentinel Data
Online presentation |
Milagrosa Russelle Ballestar (iONTEK Power Solutions Corporation - Innovate with EU Space Data Mentoring Programme 2025)
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| 16:30 – 16:50 |
Data-Driven Eddy Detection from Wide-Swath Altimetry
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Matteo Broccoli (CMCC Foundation, Italy)
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| 16:50 – 17:10 |
Developing a Multimodal AI Framework for Wetlands Mapping with Multi-Sensor Earth Observation Data
Online presentationPresentation slides Video recording |
Khunsa Fatima (University of Leicester)
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Location: Botte B4 pavilion - DAMA Technopole
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| Thursday, 16 April 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Session 3.3: TA3
Session chairs: Maryam Pourshamsi (ESA) and Chiara Maria Cocchiara (ESA)
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| 08:00 – 08:20 |
From Synthetic to Real: A Scalable Dataset and ML Framework for Global Methane Monitoring
Presentation slides Video recording |
Enno Tiemann (OHB Digital Connect / Technical University of Munich (TUM))
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| 08:20 – 08:40 |
Filling the Multisensor Gap: Multimodal Generative Models for Volcano Monitoring
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Simona Cariello (INGV-OE Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italia)
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| 08:40 – 09:00 |
Deep learning emulation of the far-infrared fast forward operator for ESA FORUM satellite
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Simone Raciti (University of Bologna)
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| 09:00 – 09:20 |
Intelligent All-sky Cameras for Dense Mesoscale Observations
Online presentationPresentation slides Video recording |
Ben Pickering (Wx Labs Ltd and NCAS)
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| 09:20 – 10:00 |
TA3 - Open discussion
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| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee break | |
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Session 4.1: TA4 End-to-end ML systems for DA and Weather and Climate Prediction Multidomain ML4ESOP
Session chairs: Alberto Carrassi (UniBo) and Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
GraphDOP: Are observations all you need?
Presentation slides Video recording |
Eulalie Boucher (ECMWF)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
An End-to-End Observation-Centric Graph Neural Network Framework for Global Earth System Prediction
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Azadeh Gholoubi (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC)
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| 11:00 – 11:20 |
Duo-AttnOPNets: An End-to-End ML–4D-Var Framework for Atmospheric Composition Forecasting and Data Assimilation
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Judongyang Zhou (Imperial College London)
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| 11:20 – 11:40 |
Extending the Aila AI Weather Model: A Multi-Decoder Approach for Variable Expansion
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Mikko Partio (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
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| 11:40 – 12:00 |
AI-Based Weather Forecasting for Switzerland
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Claire Merker (MeteoSwiss)
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| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
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Session 4.2: TA4
Session chairs: Alberto Carrassi (UniBo) and Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
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| 13:30 – 14:00 |
From Real-Time Big Data Assimilation on Fugaku to Synergistic Development of DA and AI: Osaka Expo 2025 and Beyond
Keynote speaker Presentation slides Video recording |
Takemasa Miyoshi (RIKEN)
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| 14:00 – 14:20 |
Beyond the atmosphere: Building a Data-Driven Earth System Model at ECMWF
Presentation slides Video recording |
Nina Raoult (ECMWF)
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| 14:20 – 14:40 |
The physics of AI weather models
Presentation slides Video recording |
George Craig (Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich)
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| 14:40 – 15:00 |
Interpretability of AI Weather Models via Intermediate Decoding
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Matthias Beylich (Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
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Session 4.3: TA4
Session chair: Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
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| 15:30 – 15:50 |
Leveraging the kilometre-scale AROME reanalysis to develop AI-based regional forecasting systems over Western Europe
Presentation slides Video recording |
Thomas Rieutord (Météo-France)
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| 15:50 – 16:10 |
Probabilistic GAN for European Winter Storm Downscaling
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Athul Rasheeda Satheesh (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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| 16:10 – 16:30 |
Towards few-sample extreme event likelihoods with guided diffusion models
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Peter Manshausen (NVIDIA)
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
TA4 - Open discussion
Video recording |
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Location: Botte B4 pavilion - DAMA Technopole
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| Friday, 17 April 2026 | Speaker(s) | |
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Session 5.1: TA5 - HP and new computing technologies for ML applications in ESOP
Session chair: Nina Raoult (ECMWF) and Diego Jatoba Dos Santos (ESA)
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| 08:00 – 08:30 |
Combining HPC and AI to advance potential: Example from HLRS and HammerHAI
Keynote speaker Online presentation Presentation slides Video recording |
Bastian Koller (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart)
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| 08:30 – 08:50 |
Scalable GPU-Accelerated Training of Graph Neural Networks for High-Resolution ESOP Simulations
Online presentationPresentation slides Video recording |
Oscar Leung (HKU)
Ye Ha Kim (UCL)
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| 08:50 – 09:10 |
Improving the performance and scalability of Anemoi
Presentation slides Video recording |
Jan Polster (ECMWF)
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| 09:10 – 09:30 |
Satellite Earth Observation and AI–QC-Physics methods for enhanced climate predictions and volcano–climate interaction modeling
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Eleonora Amato (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italy)
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Coffee break | |
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Session 5.2: TA5
Session chair: Nina Raoult (ECMWF) and Diego Jatoba Dos Santos (ESA)
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| 10:00 – 10:20 |
Optimising Anemoi for higher resolution data and next-generation systems
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Cathal O Brien (ECMWF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Global Volcano Monitoring from Space with hybrid Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks
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Federica Torrisi (INGV-OE Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Osservatorio Etneo, Catania, Italia)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Profiling Machine Learning Weather-Forecasting Models in Anemoi
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Marieke Plesske (HPC Applications Team)
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| 11:00 – 11:30 |
TA5 - Open discussion
Video recording |
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| 11:30 – 11:40 |
Closing remarks
Video recording |
Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)
Rochelle Schneider (ESA)
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