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 2020 Projects

Congratulations to the 11 teams that were 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

ESoWC 2020 Timeline

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 presented their project results. Watch the recordings:

• Applying AI capabilities to address operations challenges in ECMWF products team
• HPC Performance Profiling Tool
• Conversational Virtual Assistant for users of ECMWF online products and services
• Compressing atmospheric data into its real information
• DeepGEFF - Forecasting wildfire danger
• Air Quality Observation Classification
• Detect Anomaly in Air Quality Stations (DAAQS)
• Exploring deep learning techniques to detect and track tropical cyclones
• UNSEEN-Open

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