The WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity will push the co-development of high-resolution Earth-system modeling and the exploitation of billions of observations with digital technologies from the convergence of novel High-Performance Computing (HPC), big data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodologies.
This webinar series will:
- maintain regular and open dialogue between researchers active in the field of developing and evaluating models of the climate system at ultra-high resolution (i.e. km-scale) on global to regional scales for weather, climate and environmental hazard prediction
- showcase research progress, share insights on barriers to progress, and grow understanding on the relative costs and benefits compared with relevant established modelling approaches
- enable horizon scanning of new opportunities to integrate research with new observations, methods in physical modelling and data science, and new technologies
The series is co-convened by Mark Muetzelfeldt (University of Reading, UK) and Theresa Kiszler (CSC, Finland).
Upcoming Digital Earths webinars
- Simulating tropical squall lines across a wide range of spatial scales using a cold-pool gust-front parameterization. 10 August 2026 / 13:00 - 14:00 UTC. Speaker: Saulo R. Freitas, National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil
Past events
28 May 2026. 12:00 UTC
11th March 2025¦ 16:00 UTC
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South American Activities with Regional Earth System Model
4 February 2025¦ 16:00 UTC
- Introducing the Digital Earths Global Pan-Hackathon for Km-Scale Models
19 November 2024 ¦ 21:00 UTC
- Pan-Australia Kilometre-Scale Weather and Climate Modelling: Bridging the Tropics and Midlatitudes
Speakers: Charmaine Franklin, Belinda Roux, Susan Rennie, Shaun Cooper, Chun-Hsu Su, Christian Stassen (Bureau of Meteorology, Govt. of Australia)
25 July 2024 ¦ 10:00 UTC
- NCMRWF's foray into the grey zone
Speakers: Raghavendra S Mupparthy, Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar Sinha, Mohan S Thota (National Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), India)
14 May 2024 ¦ 15:00 UTC
- Km-scale modelling for Destination Earth's Digital Twins
Speaker: Benoit Vanniere (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting, ECMWF)
12 March 2024 ¦ 15:00 UTC
- A K-scale weather event attribution system developed in the Global South
Speaker: Francois Engelbrecht (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
16 January 2024 ¦ 21:00 UTC
- Multi-year climate simulations with the 3.5 km mesh NICAM
Speaker: Daisuke Takasuka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
21 November 2023 - 13:00 UTC
- Earth System Modelling at km-scale resolution at MPI
Speakers: Daniel Klocke, Nils Brüggemann, Hans Segura (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
12 September 2023 I 15:00-16:00 UTC
- Successes and Challenges for the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model
Speaker: Dr Peter Caldwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
