Program
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Poster Sessions (v15072026)
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07:30
Registration
09:00
Session 0000 - km-scale tilings
Chair: Bjorn Stevens, MPI-M
Keynote
Coupling storms with the Earth System
Cathy Hohenegger, MPI-M
Resolved Storm-Environment Interactions: Thermodynamic-Convection Coupling and Their Impacts in Global Kilometer-Scale Simulations
Daisuke Takasuka, Tohoku University
Insights from ARP-GEM Global Kilometer-Scale Simulations with Ocean Coupling
Olivier Geoffroy, CNRM, Météo-France/CNRS
Evaluating the Added Value of Global Convection-Permitting Models: A Real-Time Demonstration of the 3.75-km MPAS
Falko Judt, NCAR
Hacking Km-Scale Models: A Participative Model for Climate Information
Andrew Gettelmann, PNNL
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Session 0001 - Who needs 4 bytes?
Chair: Christopher Kadow, DKRZ
Invited
What is “resolution” in Earth system modelling
Peter Dueben, ECMWF
Invited
Building AI Climate Models
Laure Zanna, New York University
NASA's Prithvi Foundation Model Fine-Tuned for the CORDEX ML Downscaling Benchmark
Hugo Lee, JPL NASA
Km-scale, sub-daily machine learning emulation of precipitation from convection-permitting simulations
Henry Addison, University of Bristol; PRESENTED BY Elisabeth Kendon, Met Office
Field-Space Transformers for Physically Consistent Kilometer-Scale Climate Modeling
Maximilian Witte, DKRZ; PRESENTED BY Christopher Kadow, DKRZ
A HEALPix-Zarr-S3 data hub for analysis and AI-ready Earth system data
Martin Bergemann, DKRZ
12:40
Lunch break
14:00
Poster Session P00
Linked at the top
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Session 0010 - Weather's what you get
Chair: Corinna Hoose, KIT
Invited
The need for km-scale global models for reframing climate change as weather change
Christian Jakob, Monash University
New insights into changing tropical cyclone hazards and implications for early warning systems over Africa
Elisabeth Kendon, Met Office Hadley Centre
Response of organized deep convection in the tropics to anthropogenic aerosol forcing in a storm-resolving model
Sadhitro De, University of Oxford
Robustness of the South American Monsoon to an AMOC Collapse in a Kilometer-Scale Atmosphere-Only Simulation
Keno Riechers, MPI-M
Properties of MCSs in high-resolution climate experiments
Torsten Auerswald, University of Reading
Grid-Spacing Sensitivity of Rossby Wave Breaking to Mesoscale Diabatic Processes
Marius Rixen, ETH Zurich
17:30
Summit Statements Overview
~18:00
Ice-breaker at the venue
09:00
Session 0011 - AI (and Humans) to the rescue
Chair: Charlotte Debus, KIT
Keynote
Frontiers in km-scale AI: Sampling Climate, Simulating Global Storm Dynamics, and Nowcasting from Direct Observations
Mike Pritchard, NVIDIA
Invited
Kilometer-Scale AI-Powered and Performance-Portable Earth System Model (AP3ESM) to Achieve Year-Scale Simulation Speed on Heterogeneous Supercomputers
Hailong Liu, Laoshan Lab; PRESENTED BY Fengfei Song, Ocean University of China
Field-Space Autoencoders for Scalable Climate Data Compression and Generative Emulation
Johannes Meuer, DKRZ
Jigsaw: distributed AI training towards km-scale resolution models
Deifilia Kieckhefen, KIT
healpix-analyse: A Python Toolbox for Physically Consistent Spectral Statistics of km-Scale Earth System Data on the Sphere
Jean-Marc Delouis, IFREMER
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Session 0100 - Solving Earth system puzzles
Chair: Divya Sri-Praturi, MPI-M
Invited
Global Carbon-Weather Interactions at 2.5 km
Nicolas Gruber, ETH Zurich
Invited
Operationalisation of climate projections: the challenges of model resolution
Francisco Doblas-Reyes, BSC
Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Hydroclimate Extremes from km-scale Global Coupled Model Simulations
June-Yi Lee, IBS Center for Climate Physics
Consistent Pacific-Sector Southern Ocean Cooling in km-scale Climate Models
Rohit Ghosh, AWI
Beyond the km scale: Do sub-km global atmospheric models matter?
Shuhei Matsugishi, AORI - University of Tokyo
The vertical structure of temperature change over land and ocean in km-scale simulations of warming
Timothy Merlis, Princeton University
12:40
Lunch break
13:40-14:20
Statement discussion: Science Topics
Lead by Hans Segura
14:20-15:00
Statement discussion: Hack Specs
Lead by Florian Ziemen
14:00-15:30
Poster Session P01
Linked at the top
15:30
GROUP PHOTO and coffee break
16:00
Session 0101 - Meanwhile outside
Chair: Jin-De Huang, AORI - University of Tokyo
Invited
The Future of Data Infrastructure for Earth System Science
Ryan Abernathey, Earthmover PBC
GATE vs ORCESTRA
Helene Gloeckner, MPI-M
Rethinking the Doldrums: Insights from Kilometre-Scale Simulations and Observations
Julia Windmiller, Monash University
Evaluation of vertical wind shear and atmospheric stability in DYAMOND winter models against radiosonde observations
Rachel Atlas, LMD - IPSL
Chasing Arctic mixed-phase clouds - from ground, from aircraft and in simulations
Vera Schemann, University of Cologne
Storm-Resolving Earth: How Well Do Global KM-Scale Models Simulate Storms in East Asia's 2020 Record-breaking Wet Summer
Puxi Li, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
17:30
End of plenary
09:00
Session 0110 - New narratives
Chair: Felix Pithan, AWI
Keynote
Climate model discrepancies as opportunities
Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago
Invited
Usable climate risk science: motivation, examples, and a proposal
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Km-scale Climate modelling: A Pathway forward for the Global South
Tumelo Moalusi, University of the Witwatersrand
Advancing km-scale regional coupled prediction research and development to improve near-term multi-hazard and local-scale climate information
Huw Lewis, Met Office
Km-scale global storylines
Thomas Jung, AWI
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Session 0111 - Data handling and its issues
Chair: Florian Ziemen, DKRZ
Invited
One Grid for Our One and Only Earth: Towards a Shared Ellipsoidal HEALPix Grid for Earth Observations and km-Scale Models
Tina Odaka, IFREMER
Invited
TBD?
Tobias Kölling, MPI-M
A new Earth system science resource: A globally gridded GEO-Ring radiance product and its application
Jörg Schulz, EUMETSAT
Understating a Global Storm-resolving Model with EarthCARE and ORCESTRA Observations
Woosub Roh, University of Tokyo
Precipitation Efficiency Across Storm Regimes: A Satellite-Based Evaluation of Cloud-to-Rain Conversion in km-Scale Models
Julia Kukulies, NCAR
Rigorous model evaluation at km-scales using Earth observations
Heikki Järvinen, University of Helsinki
12:40
Lunch break
13:40-14:20
Statement discussion: Hackathon Plans
Lead by Andrew Gettelmann
14:20-15:00
Statement discussion: Model Data
Lead by Bjorn Stevens
15:00-15:40
Statement discussion: Observations
Lead by Masaki Satoh
14:00-15:30
Poster Session P10
Linked at the top
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Session 1000 - It's getting random
Chair: Franziska Glassmeier, MPI-M
Stochastic Parametrisation and Km-scale Modelling
Tim Palmer, University of Oxford
Towards improving Arctic liquid cloud representation in the ECMWF model using MOSAiC observations
Louise Schulte, University of Cologne
Cloud-induced mesoscale circulations: observations vs km-scale simulations
Alexis Aubel, LMD / CNRS / Sorbonne University
Global multi-centennial coupled climate modelling at eddy-rich scales - bridging CMIP and km-scale
Malcolm Roberts, Met Office
Assessing the impact of convection representation in the Met Office DYAMOND 3 simulations
Calum Scullion, Met Office
Future mesoscale horizontal stirring in polar oceans intensified by sea ice decline
Gyuseok Yi, IBS Center for Climate Physics
17:30
'Liquid Sunshine' Screening
18:00
BBQ Dinner at the venue
09:00
Session 1001 - Frontiers of computational physics
Chair: Nikolay Koldunov, AWI
Keynote
From GPUs to Software Defined Infrastructure - A Co-Design Journey in Climate Modelling at CSCS
Thomas Schulthess, CSCS
Invited
ICON's Journey to Exascale: Lessons in Performance Portability for Kilometer-Scale Climate Modeling
Claudia Frauen, DKRZ; PRESENTED BY Daniel Klocke, MPI-M
ICON ocean at subkilometer resolution
Peter Korn; PRESENTED BY Rosie Eaves, MPI-M
LMARS-SW: Global Shallow Water Simulation from Planetary Waves to Quasi-Meter-Scale Turbulence on Cross-Architecture Exascale Supercomputers
Xi Chen, IAP CAS; PRESENTED BY Zhiyuan Li, IAP CAS
Sensitivity of km-scale simulations to dynamical core
Brian Medeiros, NCAR
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Session 1010 - Whatever happended to Pascal?
Chair: Vera Schemann, University of Cologne
Invited
Towards global coupled k-scale modeling within a UK climate modelling strategy
Bryan Lawrence, University of Reading
NSF StormSPEED: Enabling Kilometer-Scale Earth System Simulations in CESM3
Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan
E3SM's Vision for a High-Resolution Future
Benjamin Hillman, Sandia National Laboratories
Code Meets Climate: The Ragnarok Blueprint for Performance-Portable ICON
Georgiana Mania, DKRZ
Development of the Python based NICAM dynamical core
Tomoki Miyakawa, AORI - University of Tokyo
AI-assisted programming at the centre of future climate-model development
Suvarchal Cheedela, AWI
12:40
Lunch break
13:40-14:20
Statement discussion: Output specs
Lead by Tina Odaka
14:20-15:00
Statement discussion: Tracking specs
Lead by Allison Wing
15:00-15:40
Statement discussion: AI Opportunities
Lead by Christopher Kadow
14:00-15:30
Poster Session P11
Linked at the top
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Session 1011 - And so on to viscosity
Chair: Christopher Holloway, University of Reading
Invited
Convective organization and climate feedbacks in an ensemble of idealized km-scale simulations
Allison Wing, FSU
Evaluate NICAM Hindcast Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Using EarthCARE Observation
Jin-De Huang, AORI - University of Tokyo
Small-scale air-sea interactions redistribute tropical precipitation in global km-scale climate models
Henning Franke, MPI-M
From Environments to Interactions: Evaluating Storm and Extreme-Precipitation Processes in Global Storm-Resolving Models
Zhe Feng, PNNL
Upscale influences of tropical convection on atmospheric circulation in kilometre-scale climate simulations
Ashar Aslam, University of Leeds
Drivers of the Continuous Oceanic Energy Spectrum at High Frequencies: A realistic modeling approach
Moritz Epke, MPI-M
17:30-18:10
Statement discussion: Under-representation
Lead by Clara Bayley
09:00
Session 1100 - Little whorls shape bigger whorls
Chair: Tomoro Yanase, MPI-M
Keynote
Climate Change Granularity
Axel Timmermann, IBS Center for Climate Physics
From Single Storms to Large-Scale Waves: How Kilometer-Scale Models Are Changing Climate Science
Andreas Prein, ETH Zurich
Tropics-wide intraseasonal oscillation in observations and GSRMs
Jiawei Bao, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
The global monsoon in global km-scale models
Fran Morris, University of Oxford
A moisture dynamics perspective on robust changes in characteristics of the tropical circulation under warming
Lorenzo Tomassini, Met Office
10:40
Coffee break
11:10
Session 1101 - Go with the flow
Chair: Clarissa Kroll, ETH Zurich
The coupling between boundary layer processes and convection: lesson from a global storm-resolving model
Hans Segura, MPI-M
Kilometer-Scale Hindcast Simulations of Derecho Events with the Nonhydrostatic Community Earth System Model version 3 (CESM3)
Nicholas Forcone, University of Michigan
Evaluating the EERIE Ensemble: Atmosphere, Ocean, Sea Ice, and Climate Variability in High-Resolution Earth System Models
Armelle Reca Remedio, AWI
Achieving Global 3D Kilometer-Scale Hydrologic Modeling: Performance Portability and Exascale Readiness in the ParFlow Framework
Stefan Kollet, FZ Jülich
Evaluating local climate in global storm-resolving models with the Köppen-Geiger classification
Chiel van Heerwaarden, Wageningen University
On the internal variability of HighResMIP to km-scale Earth System Models
Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading
12:40
Lunch break
14:00
Session 1110 - Where things are headed
Chair: Chao Li, MPI-M
Clouds for Africa workshop
live from Nairobi, Kenya
Special talk
Predictability Studies of Weather and Climate, from Physical model to AI model
Mu Mu, Fudan University
Key challenges and recent advances for improving our understanding of the L-A system - a perspective from the GEWEX pan-GLASS conference
Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim
From Observations to km-Scale Earth System Modelling: ParaChute Community Priorities and Next Steps
Christopher Holloway, University of Reading
Discussion
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Session 1111 - Shortly, before the end
Chair: Nicolas Gruber, ETH Zurich
Invited
From km-scale modelling to operational Earth System Digital Twin
Jenni Kontkanen, CSC-IT
EarthCARE and Emerging Directions in Global km-Scale Cloud Modeling
Masaki Satoh, AORI - University of Tokyo
A global to regional hierarchy for km-scale research at the Met Office
Richard Jones, Met Office
An update on NCAR plans for global km-scale modeling
Jonathan Petch, NCAR
Progress and Prospects of Kilometer-Scale Global Modelling at CMA
Qifeng Lu, China Meteorological Administration
The Berlin Summit for EVE … Three Years Later
Bjorn Stevens, MPI-M
17:30