The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility User Workshop 2019
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in the US is home to “Summit”, the world’s fastest computer. After his recent trip there, Nils Wedi discusses some of the latest advances in supercomputing and considers their application to numerical weather prediction.
Reanalysis pioneer Dick Dee bows out as ERA5 replaces ERA-Interim
Dick Dee, one of the key figures in the development of global weather and climate reanalysis at ECMWF, is leaving the Centre on 28 June on reaching retirement age, but only after overseeing the transition from the hugely successful ERA-Interim to the state-of-the-art ERA5 reanalysis.
Boost to research as ECMWF provides OpenIFS to Oxford-based volunteer computing project
OpenIFS at ECMWF has teamed up with the University of Oxford e-Research Centre to enable scientists to run the OpenIFS weather model on thousands of people’s home computers. The OpenIFS @ home project was launched on 18 June.
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European #redskies on the morning of 3 June were caused by the transport of smoke from Alberta wildfires in the polar jet.
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