HClimRep project meeting 26. November 2024

The second HClimRep project meeting will take place at the premises of the Helmholtz Head Office in Berlin on Tuesday, November 26th. We will review the current status of the ongoing HClimRep work packages and follow-up on our intense science discussions from the kickoff meeting in Cologne. On the day after the project meeting, a […]

HClimRep hackathon on 20. to 21. November 2024 at Cologne

The HClimRep project members are organizing a 2-day hackathon event at the co-working space of “Die Wohngemeinschaft” in Cologne on November 20 to 21. The main objectives of the event are: 1.) Deepen knowledge about the Atmorep code and development for HClimRep project members who have already started to work with the code, 2.) Provide […]

Invited presentation at KAIST, Seoul, Korea

Seoul, 25. September 2024 Martin Schultz gave an invited lecture at the KAIST Institute for AI in Seoul, Korea. The lecture summarized the rapid advancements of AI for weather and climate research and discussed the state-of-the-art as it was presented at the second workshop on “Large-scale deep learning for the Earth System” in Bonn, Germany, […]

Helmholtz Annual Assembly 17. September 2024

Berlin, September 02, 2024 The HClimRep project was presented together with the other pilots from the Helmholtz Foundation Model Initiative at an interactive booth. HClimRep and AI development also appeared in the keynote lecture by the president Otmar Wiestler. More information: https://www.helmholtz.de/ueber-uns/wer-wir-sind/presse-medien/veranstaltungen/jahrestagung-2024/

HClimRep presentation at HAICON

Düsseldorf, June 12, 2024 Martin Schultz, the HClimRep coordinator, was invited to present the project at the Helmholtz AI conference in Düsseldorf (see https://haicon24.de). Prior to the conference, he and Ilaria Luise, who contributes to the project as an external member, contributed to the HAICON prologue day (see https://events.hifis.net/event/1403/page/288-satellite-events) in the session on “Foundation Models […]

Invited presentation at RWTH Aachen

Aachen, June 03, 2024 Martin Schultz gave an invited lecture at the Institute for Advanced Simulation Materials Data Science and Informatics (IAS-9) at the campus of RWTH Aachen. The lecture summarized the rapid advancements of AI for weather and climate research, introduced AtmoRep as one of the first foundation models for weather-related tasks, and discussed […]

HClimRep Kick-Off Meeting

Cologne, July 02-03., 2024 The HClimRep team met for the first time in person to get to know each other and set the project on track. After a review of the project’s goals and timeline, in-depth discussions took place about several aspects of the foundation model development and the specific challenges that AI models may […]