ECMWF Code for Earth 2023

ECMWF Code for Earth is an innovation programme run by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Its aim is to drive innovation and open source developments in the Earth sciences community - supporting developments in weather and climate, the two Copernicus services (Copernicus Climate Change Service and Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) and Destination Earth.

Since 2018, each summer, up to ten developer teams work together with experienced mentors from ECMWF and partner organisations on innovative projects. These projects are related to the broad scope of activities at ECMWF, including data science, weather, climate or other earth sciences, visualisation and more.

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Code for Earth 2023 Projects

Congratulations to the ten teams that have been selected to be part of Code for Earth 2023:

Project title	Team	Mentors
Sketchbook Earth: Illustrated Climate Chronicles	Niclas Rieger Nikolaos Mastrantonas	Iryna Rozum Edward Comyn-Platt
Atmospheric Composition Dataset Explorer	Elisa Aliverti-Piuri Luigi Brancati Giulia Fiantanese	Mark Parrington Miha Razinger James Varndell Anna Agusti Panareda Antje Inness Frederic Chevallier
Compression of Geospatial Data with Varying Information Density	Ayoub Fatihi	Miha Razinger Juan Jose Dominguez Milan Klöwer Hauke Schulz
TropiDash: towards a comprehensive tropical cyclone hazard dashboard	Filippo Dainelli Paolo Colombo Laura Paredes-Fortuny	Milana Vuckovic Helen Setchell Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut Fernando Prates Emma Pidduck Sav Olivas
Benchmarking surface heat fluxes	Laura Mack	Jasper Denissen David Fairbairn Christoph Herbert
Diffusion Models on WeatherBench	Mohit Anand Jonathan Wider	Jesper Dramsch Florian Pinault
ChatECMWF	Piero Ferrarese Giacomo Bighin (from June 2023)	Baudouin Raoult Sylvie Lamy-Thepaut Helen Setchell Myranda Uselton Shirk
TesseRugged	Irene Schicker Markus Dabernig Toni Jurlina Alexander Kann Sebastian Lehner Konrad Mayer Petrina Papazek Matthias Schlögl	Mariana Clare Matthew Chantry Andras Horanyi Cornel Soci
DeepR: Deep Reanalysis	Antonio Pérez Velasco Mario Santa Cruz López Javier Díez Sierra	Mariana Clare Matthew Chantry Andras Horanyi Cornel Soci
Fire Forecasting	Robert Maiwald Timo Metz Christopher Lüken-Winkels Eva-Marie Metz	Johannes Kaiser Mark Parrington Miha Razinger Mihai Alexe Siham El Garroussi

How it works

1. Call for Participation: 1 Mar - 12 Apr 2023

Browse through the Code for Earth challenges, ask questions and together with the mentors, tailor your proposal. Submit your proposal by 12 April 2023.

2. Announcement of selected proposals: 27 Apr 2023

The selected Code for Earth 2023 project teams will be announced on 27 Apr 2023.

3. Coding phase: 2 May - 31 Aug 2023

The four-month long coding period starts on 02 May 2023 and ends on 31 August 2023. During this time, the selected teams will work with their Code for Earth mentors. These are experts in earth sciences like weather, climate and climate change, atmosphere and air quality or in technology areas like AI/ML, cloud computing, applied data science or open source software development.

4. Final Code for Earth day: 20 September 2023

The Code for Earth day is a celebratory completion of the programme. This year the event will be hosted at the ECMWF's data centre in Bologna, Italy. Teams will be invited to present their project results.

Successfully completed projects will receive a €5,000 stipend.

Important links

• Code for Earth Frequently Asked Questions
• Code for Earth Terms & Conditions
• Follow Code for Earth on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube
• Read a summary of ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2022 on the ECMWF Science Blog: ECMWF Summer of Weather Code 2022
• ECMWF Newsletter: Summer of Weather Code becomes Code for Earth
• Learn the most recent developments concerning machine learning in weather and climate from the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Machine Learning in Weather and Climate