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SUMMARY:Virtual workshop: Weather and climate in the cloud
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nWorkshop description\n\n\nCloud technologies open many new
  opportunities for the community working in operational meteorology to bet
 ter serve our users. Emerging and mature cloud infrastructures in the weat
 her domain\, such as the WEkEO DIAS and the European Weather Cloud\, allow
  users to access the full extent of large volumes of weather and climate d
 ata without having to move it first. Offering server-side processing\, eit
 her through standardised APIs or web user interfaces\, has become common p
 lace and enables interactive data analytics using machine learning on a la
 rger scale. The impact of these new technologies will continue to revoluti
 onise many aspects of our work: data delivery\, web applications for decis
 ion makers\, product developments\, service monitoring and training.  \n\
 nA special interest for ECMWF is how users can take advantage of the full 
 potential of our forecast data\, especially ensemble data. Web services\, 
 such as ecCharts\, have made it possible in recent years for users to expl
 ore all of ECMWF's forecasts visually. Still it has been challenging for s
 cientists and developers to explore all of ECMWF's data and prototype new 
 products targeted for their users. Cloud technologies combined with the po
 pular and powerful Python ecosystem allow us now to open up these opportun
 ities. At the same time our user community is growing and therefore new in
 terfaces have been designed to be less domain specific to open up the pote
 ntial of the data to data scientists across disciplines. This development 
 is not only limited to ECMWF and we are keen to share and hear from the ex
 perience in our community. \n\nECMWF invited participants to share and ex
 change their experiences and plans for using cloud technologies to improve
  our services at this virtual workshop. Contributions covered the followin
 g topics:\n\n\n	New possibilities for user services through the use of the
  cloud \n	Server-side processing and data analytics of meteorological data
  \n	New opportunities for provision of training using the cloud\n	The role
  of standards and APIs to move services between cloud environments    
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