Workshop

Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Predictions
From Modeling to Visualization

January 13, 2025, 17:00–19:30

Merdian Hall, Collegium Helveticum

Convened by

Tülin Kaman
Senior Fellow 2024–2025

Renato Pajarola
Associate Fellow

Details: Public event, free of charge.

Predicting the complex and chaotic dynamics of extreme weather events and climate systems is among the most important as well as challenging problems in the scientific community. Quantifying uncertainties in models and the effect of initial and boundary conditions play a crucial role in achieving accurate representation of the weather and climate systems.

This workshop focuses on the uncertainties in modeling and visualization of climate and extreme weather systems that are at the forefront of current and future atmospheric and climate science developments. A unique venue is provided to bring together atmospheric scientists, applied mathematicians and computer scientists to highlight the recent advances and challenges in modeling, simulation and visualization. Topics will include: (1) climate projections; (2) atmospheric dynamics; (3) visualization of high-resolution extreme weather simulations and big data.

Program

17:00	Opening & welcome remarks Sebastian Bonhoeffer Collegium Helveticum Tülin Kaman Collegium Helveticum & University of Zurich, CH
17:15	Uncertainty Quantification in Climate Modeling, Weather Predictions and Visualization
	Challenges in Combining Evidence from Multiple Climate Models Reto Knutti Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich, CH
	Uncertainties in Numerical Weather Prediction Heini Wernli Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich, CH
	Effective Visualization Best Practices and Guidelines for Weather and Uncertainty in Scientific Contexts Alexandra Diehl Informatics University of Zurich, CH
18:45	Closing remarks Followed by a small reception.