“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 […]
Today at 11:10, RSI, the Swiss Italian Radio station will dedicate a broadcast to meteorology and the COSMO model used by MeteoSwiss and other national agencies. The participants are Marco Gaia from MeteoSwiss and Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS, and the discussion will be moderated by Nicola Colotti. Read more »
In early 2012, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) moved from its original location in Manno to Lugano city, a few kilometers away. The last computer to be powered off in Manno was Buin, a Cray XT4, which for the last years had computed the numerical weather forecast for MeteoSwiss every three hours, through simulations […]
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 […]
