Training course: Numerical methods for weather prediction

Monday, 13 April
09:15 → 10:15
Welcome and Introductions
Speakers: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF), Stephen English (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 → 11:45
Earth system models - From the equations to exascale supercomputers
Speaker: Peter Dueben (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 → 13:00
Vertical and horizontal resolution, hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic dynamics
Speaker: Inna Polichtchouk

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:05
Semi-implicit finite-volume compressible methods for high-resolution NWP (I)
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
15:05 → 15:30
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
15:30 → 16:35
Semi-implicit finite-volume compressible methods for high-resolution NWP (II)
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
16:35 → 18:00
Ice Breaker & networking event

ECMWF

Reading
1h 25m
Tuesday, 14 April
09:15 → 10:15
The spectral transform method
Speaker: Andreas Mueller (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 → 11:45
Practical session: Spectral transforms
Speaker: Andreas Mueller (ECMWF)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 → 13:00
The semi-Lagrangian, semi-implicit technique of the ECMWF model
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:05
Developing next-generation NWP models in Python (I)
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
15:05 → 15:30
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
15:30 → 16:35
Developing next-generation NWP models in Python (II)
Speaker: Christian Kuehnlein (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
Wednesday, 15 April
09:15 → 10:15
Time-stepping schemes for NWP & Climate
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 → 13:00
Discontinuous higher order discretization methods (I)
Speaker: Willem Deconinck (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:05
Discontinuous higher order discretization methods (II)
Speaker: Willem Deconinck (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
15:05 → 15:30
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
15:30 → 16:35
Practical session: elliptical solver

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
Thursday, 16 April
09:15 → 10:15
Practical session: advection schemes (I)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 → 11:45
Practical session: advection schemes (II)

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 → 13:00
Introduction to element based computing, finite volume and finite element methods
Speaker: Joanna Szmelter

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
13:00 → 14:00
Lunch break

ECMWF

Reading
1h
14:00 → 15:05
Mesh generation
Speaker: Joanna Szmelter

ECMWF

Reading
1h 5m
15:05 → 15:30
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
15:30 → 17:00
Demonstration of visualisation of km-scale forecasts, discussions with lecturers
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
1h 30m
Friday, 17 April
09:15 → 10:15
Scalability of Weather Prediction Models
Speaker: Sam Hatfield (University of Oxford)

ECMWF

Reading
1h
10:15 → 10:40
Coffee break

ECMWF

Reading
25m
10:40 → 11:45
Hybrid physics based-Machine Learning approaches for weather prediction based on spectral nudging
Speaker: Inna Polichtchouk

ECMWF

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

ECMWF

Reading
10m
11:55 → 12:30
Course wrap up, Q&A, certificates
Speaker: Michail Diamantakis (ECMWF)

ECMWF

Reading
35m

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