Contribution to the WMO annual report 2023
Dr. Christopher Kadow, head of the new department "Data Analysis" at DKRZ, contributed to the current annual report “State of the Global Climate 2023” being released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Announcement: 8th ENES-HPC workshop in Lecce/Italy
The ENES-HPC workshop is returning to Lecce/Italy for its 8th edition. The event, which has also been hosted twice by DKRZ, is organized by the European Network for Earth System Modeling (ENES) in collaboration with ESiWACE and will bring together experts in HPC in Earth system modeling on site and online from May 22nd to 24th, 2024.
First WCRP ESMO meeting at DKRZ: bridging climate modelling and observations communities
From 18-22 March 2024, the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) hosted the very first Earth System Modelling and Observation (ESMO) meeting of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), with over 100 scientists from all around the world attending on-site and remotely.
EGU 2024: DKRZ, CEN, and CLiCCS represent Hamburg climate research
From April 14th to 19th, 2024, the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), and the Excellence Cluster CLICCS from the University of Hamburg will present climate and sustainability research "made in Hamburg" at the EGU in Vienna.
Python course for geosciences
From March 5-8, 2024, DKRZ and the Scientific Computing Group (WR) of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg held a dedicated online Python course for geoscientists for the 6th time.
The HANAMI project: Digital partnership between the EU and Japan
DKRZ is one of the 14 European partners of the newly founded consortium HANAMI, to promote cooperation between Europe and Japan in the field of high performance computing.
Hands-on Workshop: Machine Learning for Climate Scientists
On March 4 and 5, 2024, the team from the new Data Analysis department held a hands-on workshop on the use of machine learning methods in climate science.
#Zusammenland: The DKRZ is on board!
Like many other scientific institutions in Germany, the DKRZ is participating in the nationwide campaign "#zusammenland - Vielfalt macht uns stark! (Diversity makes us strong)". This campaign stands for a clear stance for an open-minded country and diverse coexistence.
natESM Workshop 2024: Discussion of potential system components in Leipzig
This year's natESM community workshop took place from February 27th to 28th, 2024, in Leipzig. Approximately 80 participants were involved in in-depth discussions regarding the ongoing advancement of the natESM system.
Milestone in Climate and Weather Research: Weather and Climate Model ICON published under Open Source License
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since January 31, 2024, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has been made available to the public under an open source license. This groundbreaking step contributes to making science and scientific services more transparent. At the same time, it enables further scientific progress in an area from which society can particularly benefit in times of climate change.
New climate model for more accurate climate prediction: Launch of the project "Coming Decade"
Global warming is advancing, but how will this affect Germany in the upcoming decade? Six research institutions, including the DKRZ, are collaboratively developing a new climate prediction system in the "Coming Decade" project to make more precise predictions for Germany and Europe.
natESM workshop recap: a collaborative success!
From November 14th to 15th, 2023, the natESM support team organized a training workshop in collaboration with partners such as DKRZ, DLR, DWD and MPI-M.
EERIE Project Meeting and Hackathon
From November 6th to 10th, 2023, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) hosted 50 participants at the first EERIE project meeting and a subsequent hackathon. The DKRZ was represented as a project partner and actively supported the event.
Supercomputing Conference SC23
This year's SC23 will take place from November 12th to 17th, 2023 in Denver, USA. During the conference, the TOP500 list of the most powerful HPC systems was updated, with the DKRZ supercomputer Levante now ranked 74th.
NCAR workshop: Climate model software put to the test
On November 9th and 10th, a workshop on the topic “Correctness and Reproducibility for Climate and Weather Software” took place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado/USA.
A success story: DKRZ's Python workshop for geosciences
The DKRZ Python course for geosciences remains on track for success.
DKRZ contributions to the 20th ECMWF Workshop on High Performance Computing in Meteorology
With two oral presentations and a poster at the "20th ECMWF Workshop on High Performance Computing in Meteorology", the DKRZ team presented current results from various projects, all of which aim to make climate models fit for the coming supercomputer generations.
Retreatof the Hamburg Excellence Cluster CLICCS
This year's retreat of the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS took place in Fintel, Lower Saxony, on October 5th and 6th, 2023. Under the motto “Synthesize for impact!” Around 130 scientists exchanged ideas about common research goals, collaboration opportunities and relevant publication topics.
GPU Programming Hackathon 2023
From September 18th to 22nd, 2023, a DKRZ team attended the this year's GPU hackathon in Lugano, Switzerland. A total of seven teams, each with up to four participants and two mentors, took part in the event, organized by the Swiss supercomputing center CSCS in cooperation with openhackathons.org.
Data search with the new GEMS system
With the launch of the GEMS system provided by the WarmWorld project the DKRZ offers it’s users central, convenient and quick access to many of the climate and environmental data stored at DKRZ.
Climate change - simply explaination for young scientists
In September 2023, school classes will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge on the topics of climate, climate change and sustainability at two parallel events - the Hamburg Student Congress and the educational program Wetter.Wasser.Waterkant.
New Director of ESMO IPO at DKRZ
Dr. Fanny Adloff is starting on October 1, 2023 as the director of the new WCRP International Project Office (IPO) for Earth System Modeling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project.
New Lead of Systems Department
On September 15, 2023, Carsten Schmitt (right in the picture) succeeds Ulf Garternicht as head of the systems department. DKRZ Managing Director Prof. Thomas Ludwig (on the left in the picture) congratulates and looks forward to a good cooperation.
New "Data Analysis" department headed by Dr. Christopher Kadow
A new "Data Analysis" department headed by Dr. Christopher Kadow started work at DKRZ on September 1, 2023. He will drive the development of the department, which deals with essential topics related to the analysis of climate simulations.
Berlin Summit for EVE: Digital Twins of the Earth
What is the regional impact of climate change? A "digital twin of the Earth" will help to better understand climate change and to adapt to unavoidable climate changes. From July 3-7, 2023, climate researchers collaborated with experts in AI, HPC, climate adaptation and risk management at the Berlin Summit to develop a concept for a new digital infrastructure called Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE). Among the 180 participants from 26 countries were also several Hamburg-based scientists - such as from the DKRZ, the Cluster of Excellence CLiCCS at the University of Hamburg, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, and the Climate Service Center Germany, GERICS.
EUDAT Summer School
Nightless nights, a CO₂-negative supercomputer and concentrated data management knowledge: The EUDAT Summer School 2023 took place from 26 to 30 June 2023 in Kajaani, Finland.
DKRZ at PASC23
The PASC23 conference in the Swiss village of Davos dedicated to the topic of Computing Across Scales, Domains, and Communities” presented form June, 26 to 28, the ideal opportunity for DKRZ colleagues to present their projects and ongoing work to the scientific community.
ERA5 data for 1940-2023 available on Levante
For several years, DKRZ has been offering ERA5 reanalyses data to its users. This data set has been recently updated to cover the period from January 1940 to March 2023. The data can be accessed via /pool/data/ERA5 on the DKRZ supercomputer Levante; it is also accessible via an intake catalogue.
Expansion of the exascale data archive at DKRZ
DKRZ will commission two new Spectra Logic Tfinity magnetic tape libraries in June 2023, which were supplied by Cristie Data at the end of March following a Europe-wide tender.
ISC'23: Levante on rank 60 of the TOP500 list
At the ISC High Performance 2023 in Hamburg, the new Top500 list of the most powerful HPC systems was released. DKRZ's supercomputer Levante is listed on rank 60.