Training course: Machine learning for weather prediction

Tuesday, 3 May
8:30 AM → 9:10 AM
Registration opens

ECMWF

Reading
40m
9:10 AM → 9:30 AM
Welcome and course overview
Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Sarah Keeley (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
20m
9:30 AM → 10:15 AM
Introductions

ECMWF

Reading
45m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Overview of machine learning for weather and climate predictions
Speaker: Peter Dueben (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
JupyterLab and European Weather Cloud (EWC)
Speaker: Florian Pinault (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Hands-on: Data handling with CliMetLab
Speaker: Florian Pinault (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
Hands-on: Sharing datasets and code via CliMetLab
Speaker: Florian Pinault (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
5:15 PM → 7:15 PM
Social dinner (Shinfield Arms)

ECMWF

Reading
2h
Wednesday, 4 May
9:10 AM → 10:15 AM
Opportunities, Challenges and Applications in Machine Learning and routes to operational use
Speaker: Peter Dueben (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Regression techniques and decision trees
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Neural networks and deep learning
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Machine learning validation and data leakage
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
Hands-on: Machine learning playground with iFAB data

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Thursday, 5 May
9:10 AM → 10:15 AM
Hyper-parameter search and loss functions
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Uncertainty quantification
Speaker: Siham El Garroussi (Forecast Department)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Deep generative models
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Machine learning and parametrization emulation
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM → 4:50 PM
Hands-on: Exercises on down scaling

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Friday, 6 May
9:10 AM → 10:15 AM
Machine learning and Data Assimilation
Speaker: Alan Geer (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM → 11:45 AM
Machine learning and model error
Speaker: Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
11:45 AM → 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM → 1:00 PM
Hands-on: Exercises on WeatherBench

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM → 3:05 PM
Machine learning and tropical cyclone detections (online)
Speaker: Antonino Bonanni (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM → 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM → 3:50 PM
Course wrap-up, Final discussion and Q&A session with all lecturers

ECMWF

Reading
30m

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