NHR PerfLab seminar talk on March 18, 2025

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)

Title: The Stunning Success Story of Machine Learning for Weather Prediction

Slides: https://hpc.fau.de/files/2025/03/2025-03-18-PerfLab-Weather-Prediction.pdf

Abstract:

Up to the 19th century, weather prediction was done with human intelligence by observation and qualitative considerations. With the collection of measurement data, prediction started to be based on quantitative data. First computed by humans, but quickly also by early computers. Over the decades, we see a considerable improvement in prediction quality; however, the task is very compute and data intensive. The advent of advanced machine learning methods together with huge volumes of observational data give rise to a new concept for computational weather predictions. The talk will present and discuss success stories and their implications onto HPC in the field of meteorology.

For a list of past and upcoming NHR PerfLab seminar events, see:
https://hpc.fau.de/research/nhr-perflab-seminar-series/