At the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano the new “super weather computer” of the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss has started its operation. MeteoSwiss is the first meteorological service which has switched to a new GPU based computer architecture. Thus, the new supercomputer is able to calculate weather models with […]
“This decision is a huge success for the HP2C projects” The COSMO model is used by the German Meteorological Service, MeteoSwiss and other institutions as a basis for their daily weather forecasts. In the past three years, researchers from the Center for Climate Systems Modeling and MeteoSwiss have worked for the High Performance and High […]
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather forecast model on distributed memory computers. Since then he is getting involved in weather forecasting and operational forecasting. In his actual function he is responsible […]
MeteoSchweiz invites you to attend its research colloquium FOKO 2011-2: How much high performance computing does meteorology need? 29 November 2011, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm at MeteoSwiss, Krähbühlstrasse 58, 8044 Zurich, Room for events 353 – 354 No registration is required; participation is free of charge. Download as PDF Agenda» Short abstracts » Agenda […]
It is getting warmer in Switzerland and dryer in summer, and climate change will also affect the frequency and character of extreme events. Climate scientists of C2SM Competence Centre (Center for Climate Systems Modeling) and MeteoSwiss have generated the Swiss Climate Change Scenarios CH2011 which provide a new assessment of how climate may change over […]
