Training course: Machine learning for weather prediction

Monday, 18 March
8:30 AM 9:00 AM
Registration opens

ECMWF

Reading
30m
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
Welcome and course general information
Speakers: Christopher Stewart (ECMWF), Julia Ioannou (ECMWF)

Council Chamber

1h 15m
10:15 AM 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Overview/ Motivational lecture
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
11:45 AM 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Data handling and infrastructure
Speaker: Florian Pinault (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Machine Learning foundations
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM 4:25 PM
Unsupervised learning for data exploration
Speaker: Siham El Garroussi (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
4:25 PM 5:55 PM
Ice-breaker cocktail

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Tuesday, 19 March
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
Neural networks / Deep learning
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 15m
10:15 AM 10:40 AM
Coffee break & Group photo

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Decision Trees/ Random Forests
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
11:45 AM 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Hands-on: Machine learning basics
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 5m
1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
ML Evaluation/ Data Leakage
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM 4:50 PM
Hands on: Debugging ML models
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 30m
Wednesday, 20 March
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
Convolutional Neural Networks
Speaker: Ana Prieto Nemesio (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 15m
10:15 AM 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Transformers
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
11:45 AM 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Graph Neural Networks
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Deep Generative Models
Speakers: Christian Lessig (ECMWF), Gabriel Ionut Moldovan (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM 4:50 PM
Hands-on: Graph Neural Networks
Speaker: Mihai Alexe (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 30m
Thursday, 21 March
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
Uncertainty/ Bayesian Modelling
Speaker: Mariana Clare (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 15m
10:15 AM 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Explainable AI
Speakers: Ana Prieto Nemesio (ECMWF), Mariana Clare (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 5m
11:45 AM 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Self-supervised Learning
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 5m
1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Data-driven weather forecasts
Speaker: Matthew Chantry (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:20 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
15m
3:20 PM 4:50 PM
Hands-on: Explainable AI
Speakers: Ana Prieto Nemesio, Mariana Clare (ECMWF)

Classroom

1h 30m
Friday, 22 March
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
ML for Model Error Estimation and Prediction
Speaker: Massimo Bonavita (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 15m
10:15 AM 10:40 AM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
ML for Data Assimilation
Speaker: Alan Geer (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

1h 5m
11:45 AM 11:55 AM
Comfort break

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 12:30 PM
AI Models: running AIFS (and GraphCast... and FourCastNet...) operationally
Speakers: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF), Gert Mertes (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

35m
12:30 PM 12:50 PM
Course wrap-up, final discussion and Q&A session
Speaker: Jesper Dramsch (ECMWF)

Lecture Theatre

20m

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