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ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2020 challenges

ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2020

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


ESoWC


ESoWC 2020 Projects

Congratulations to the 11 teams that have been selected to be part of ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2020:

Project title Team Mentors Supported by
Elefridge.jl Milan Kloewer Miha Razinger
Juan-Jose Dominguez		 WEkEO powered by CloudFerro
Forecasting Wildfire Danger
with Deep Learning		 Roshni Biswas
Anurag Saha Roy
Tejasvi S Tomar		 Claudia Vitolo
Tianran Zhiang		 WEkEO powered by CloudFerro
ECMWF Conversational Virtual Assistant Frank Lieber
Michael Kuhn		 Anna Ghelli
Helen Setchell
Michela Gusti		 European Weather Cloud
HPC Performance Profiling Tool Tiberiu Lepadatu Olivier Marsden
Michael Lange
Clara Brune		 European Weather Cloud
Air Quality Observation Classification 1 Gordan Rates Miha Razinger
Johannes Flemming		 European Weather Cloud
Detect Anomaly in Air Quality Station (DAAQS) Mohit Anand
Kumar Shridar		 Miha Razinger
Johannes Flemming		 European Weather Cloud
Exploring of machine/deep learning
techniques to detect and
track tropical cyclines		 Ashwin Samudre Linus Magnusson
Pedro Maciel		 European Weather Cloud
Applying AI capabilities
to address Operations challenges
in ECMWF Products Team		 Adithya Niranjan
Aditya Ahuja		 Matthew Manoussakis
Peter Dueben		 European Weather Cloud
Creating Jupyter-based
OpenIFS training material		 Ayush Prasad Olivier Marsden
Michael Lange
Adrien Oyono		 European Weather Cloud
UNSEEN-Open Timo Kelder Julia Wagemann
Christel Prudhomme

Generous cloud computing ressources are provided by:

the Copernicus DIAS service WEkEO
(powered by CloudFerro)		 European Weather Cloud
WEkEO logocloudferro logo EWS logo

How it works

1. Application period: 27 Jan - 22 Apr 2020

Browse through the ESoWC 2020 challenges or develop your own project idea. Applications for ESoWC 2020 closed 22 April 2020.

2. Announcement of selected proposals: 1 May 2020

The final ESoWC 2020 project teams were announced on 1 May 2020.

3. Coding period: 4 May - 30 Sep 2020

The 5-month long coding period started 4 May 2020 and lasts until 30 September 2020. During this time, the selected teams team up with experienced mentors and experts in weather, climate, machine-learning and cloud-computing.
Follow the progress of the projects here on Github.

4. Final ESoWC day @ECMWF: 16 October 2020

The ESoWC day @ECMWF is the final day of the programme, where each team will present their project results.


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