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Discover the ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2021 challenges!

ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2021

ECMWF Summer of Weather Code is a collaborative programme where each summer several developer teams work on innovative weather-, climate- and atmosphere-related open-source software. ESoWC is organised by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and supported by Copernicus.


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Final ESoWC Day 2021 | Recordings

The fourth edition came to a close on 29th September with the Final ESoWC Day 2021. Watch here the recordings of the team presentations:

Did you miss the ESoWC 2021 mid-term webinars? No problem, watch the recordings here:


ESoWC 2021 Projects

Congratulations to the nine teams that have been selected to be part of ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2021:

Project title Team Mentors
Elefridge.jl: Compressing atmospheric data into its real information content
>> Watch the project presentation
Milan Kloewer Miha Razinger
Juan-Jose Dominguez
ADC Toolbox: Comparing Atmospheric Composition Datasets
>> Watch the project presentation
Alba Vilanova Cortezon Miha Razinger
Antje Inness
Federico Fierli
ECMWF User Dashboard
>> Watch the project presentation
Varun Bankar Helen Setchell
Carsten Maas
Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut
AQ-BiasCorrection
>> Watch the project presentation
Antonio Perez Velsco
Mario Santa Cruz Lopez
Johannes Flemming
Miha Razinger
Jerome Barre
ML4Land: Using Earth's observation data, Climate reanalysis & Machine Learning to detect Earth's heating patterns
>> Watch the project presentation
Het Shah
Avishree Khare
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Joe McNorton
Gabriele Arduini
Margarita Choulga
Souhail Boussetta
Nils Wedi
Peter Dueben
MaLePoM: Machine Learning for Pollution Monitoring
>> Watch the project presentation
Nicolo Brunello
Vidur Mithal
Paolo Fornoni
Luca Rampini
Joe McNorton
Nicolas Bousserez
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Anna Agusti-Panareda
Mark Parrington
CliMetLab - Machine Learning on weather and climate data
>> Watch the project presentation
Ashwin Samudre
Baudouin Raoult
Florian Pinault
BlenderNC enhancements
>> Watch the project presentation
Tishampati Dhar
Gichini Ngaruiya
Josue Martinez Moreno
Stephan Siemen
Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut
Meeresvogel
>> Watch the project presentation
Kathryn Schmitt Stephan Siemen
Iain Russell


Generous cloud computing ressources are provided by:

the Copernicus DIAS service WEkEO European Weather Cloud
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How it works

1. Application period: 1 Feb - 16 Apr 2021

Browse through the ESoWC 2021 challenges, ask questions and together with the mentors, tailor your proposal. Apply before 16 April 2021.

2. Announcement of selected proposals: 30 Apr 2021

The final ESoWC 2021 project teams were announced on 30 Apr 2021.

3. Coding period: 3 May - 31 Aug 2021

The 4-month long coding period started 3 May 2021 and lasts until 31 August 2021. During this time, the selected teams team up with experienced mentors and experts in weather, climate, atmosphere and machine-learning.
Follow the progress of the projects here on Github.

4. Final ESoWC day (virtual): 29 September 2021

The ESoWC day is the final day of the programme. Each team will be invited to this virtual event and present their project results.


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