ICCS team members Dominic Orchard and Jack Atkinson attended the 2023 meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), taking place in Vienna from 23-28 April.
The event provided a great opportunity to catch-up with many of our scientific collaborators, especially in the DataWave and SASIP teams. There were a number of presentations of our work during the week:
Gilberto Pastorello from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented our collaboration on the ONEFlux data processing tool for land-atmopshere cabord flux, with a poster presentation (corresponding abstract).
At the DataWave side meeting, Jack Atkinson from ICCS presented our work on improving interoperation between Fortran and pythonic machine learning libaries, applied to the Gravity Wave Drag parameterizations in atmospheric models. This is a rapidly growing part of the geosciences community, and something that our collaborators on the VESRI projects DataWave and M2LiNES are both making use of. Jack explained that it was a good opportunity to meet and discuss with others working on similar projects, and build connections with the VESRI teams.
At the DataWave side meeting, Dominic presented a short talk about Analysis and lightweight verification of Fortran code using the CamFort tool and demonstrated some of its lightweight static analysis tooling by running it live on the MiMA moist atmospheric model.
The EGU General Assembly is the largest annual gathering of all geoscience disciplines in Europe, with over 16,000 attendees. It allows us to share knowledge between scientific groups from across the world and share our work with them. In addition to scientific research there is a strong representation from operational forecasting, scientific computing and software engineering. There are not only talks and posters, but also short courses and workshops, and panels on scientific policy, communication, and activism etc.