6/12/2024 Meeting Summary
This meeting summary is intended to be a readable summary of the meeting (meeting agenda), covering the main points discussed in an abbreviated form for people who couldn’t attend or needed to refer to information again later.
Newsworthy items from the meeting include:
- Terry O’Kane has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the AMOS session 8.6 Advancing Weather and Climate Research with Machine Learning. Unfortunately it is unlikely that any Bureau scientists will be attending AMOS 2025 due to funding issues.
- The NCI project nm17 has been repurposed to provide compute resources for this community. Please see this post for more information. We intend to have a discussion of what these resources should be used for at the next meeting in February. Please bring along your ideas and proposals or post on the forum ahead of the meeting.
- There was some discussion of the 48-hour limit on GPU sessions at NCI, with several WG members expressing that this was a limitation on their workflows. Persistent sessions and automatic resubmission were proposed as potential solutions, with members encouraged to contact NCI for help.
Nick Loveday (from the Bureau) gave an excellent talk on verification of AI weather models (comparing GraphCast with a traditional NWP, HRRR, at weather stations in the US), with a particular focus on extremes. This was followed by some general discussion, including the need for further sophistication when performing verification of AI weather models (given the many different ways in which NWP information is used), and the potential use of advanced verification scores as loss functions for training.
Tennessee Leeuwenburg (from the Bureau) gave a brief update on the PyEarthTools (was EDIT) work, including the work on an introductory tutorial, plus the progress towards an open source release and what would be involved for ACCESS-NRI should that proceed.