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 […]
Some weeks ago we published a conference report from the 14th ECMWF workshop on HPC in Meteorology. At the end of the workshop ECMWF organized a panel discussing the experience of using HPC in meteorology. A paper resuming the results of the panel is now available and can be downloaded from the ECMWF website. Web […]
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) organized from November 1 to 5, 2010 the 14th Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Meteorology. The aim of this workshop is to bring together worldwide key players providing meteorological and climate services running numerical models. Some major HPC vendors also […]
