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episode 326: Weather Forecasting at the ECMWF
Guests: Hilda Carr, Peter Bauer, Tony McNally
Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Thomas Machowinski
Earlier this year I visited the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a European organization that produces global weather forecasts and performs research on how to improve those. The episode has three parts. First, Hilda Carr gives us an overview of the organization, its purpose and its history. Then I talk with Peter Bauer about weather and climate modeling and about encoding these models efficiently in software programs that run on supercomputers. Part three is a conversation with Tony McNally about where the ECMWF gets its data and how it is continuously fed into the “running” model.
Introduction 00:05:18
Hilda Carr | European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast | European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast | ECMWF Twitter Account | 350 People are working at ECMWF (Medium Range Forecast - Seasonal Forecast) | Meteoblue <meteoblue.com>
Modeling 00:26:17Peter Bauer | Overturning Circulation (James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science) | Ensemble Forecasting | Machine Learning | Climate Model | Trace Gas
Computational Aspects 01:33:29Top 500 Supercomputer List | Cray CX40 | Fortran
Observation Integration 02:06:38Tony McNally | Earth Observation | Data Assimilation in Weather Forecasting | Chart Viewer at ECMWF Website