Training course: Numerical methods for weather prediction

Monday, 11 November
9:10 AM 10:15 AM
Welcome and Introductions
Speakers: Andy Brown (ECMWF), Julia Ioannou (ECMWF), Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Earth system models - From the equations to exascale supercomputers
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
Vertical and horizontal resolution, hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic dynamics
Speaker: Inna Polichtchouk

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Non-oscillatory forward-in-time finite-volume methods for NWP
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
3:30 PM 4:35 PM
Introduction to semi-implicit integrations of non-hydrostatic PDEs of atmospheric dynamics (I) - online
Speaker: Piotr Smolarkiewicz (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
4:35 PM 6:00 PM
Ice Breaker & networking event

ECMWF

Reading
1h 25m
Tuesday, 12 November
9:10 AM 10:15 AM
The spectral transform method
Speaker: Andreas Mueller (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Practical session: Spectral transform method
Speaker: Andreas Mueller (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
The semi-Lagrangian, semi-implicit technique of the ECMWF model
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Developing next-generation NWP models in Python
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
3:30 PM 4:35 PM
Algorithms for semi-implicit integrations of non-hydrostatic PDEs of atmospheric dynamics (II) - online
Speaker: Piotr Smolarkiewicz (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
Wednesday, 13 November
9:10 AM 10:15 AM
Time-stepping schemes for NWP & Climate
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Reduced precision computing for Earth System modelling
Speaker: Sam Hatfield (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Introduction to element-based computing, finite volume and finite element methods
Speaker: Joanna Szmelter (Loughborough University)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:05 PM
Mesh generation
Speaker: Joanna Szmelter (Loughborough University)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
3:05 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
3:30 PM 4:35 PM
Practical session: elliptical solver

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Social: Self funded dinner in town
1h 30m
Thursday, 14 November
9:10 AM 10:15 AM
Discontinuous higher order discretization methods (I)
Speaker: Willem Deconinck (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
Discontinuous higher order discretization methods (II)
Speaker: Willem Deconinck (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
Practical session: advection schemes (I)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
1h
2:00 PM 3:00 PM
Practical session: advection schemes (II)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
3:00 PM 3:30 PM
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
30m
3:30 PM 5:00 PM
Demonstration of visualisation of km-scale forecasts, poster discussions

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Friday, 15 November
9:10 AM 10:15 AM
Massively parallel computing for NWP & climate
Speaker: Andreas Mueller (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 AM 11:45 AM
AI and machine learning for weather prediction (I)
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 AM 1:00 PM
AI and machine learning for weather prediction (II)
Speaker: Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
1:00 PM 1:30 PM
Course wrap up, Q&A, certificates
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
30m

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