RDA-Europe spring school on weather, climate and air quality

Wednesday afternoon: ice-breaker buffet

Thursday:

09:30 - 09:45 Introduction (BSC)

9:45 - 10:30 Session 1: Dealing with dynamic and real-time datasets, PIDs (Sandro Fiore - CMCC Euro-mediterranean Center on Climate Change)

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:30 Session 2: EO data and Copernicus (Pierre-Philippe Mathieu - ESA European Space Agency)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 Session 3: Metadata definitions, governance, automated tools to generate the metadata (Antonio Cofiño - University of Cantabria)

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:15 Session 4: Experiment and model/instrument documentation, CIM (Mark Greenslade  - IPSL Pierre Simon-Laplace Institute)

Friday:

09:00 - 10:30 Session 5a: Volume growth of the data, cost of data traffic and examples to make a more efficient use (Stephan Kindermann - DKRZ German Climate Computing Centre)

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 12:30 Session 5b: Hands-on session

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Session 6a: Bringing the compute to the data (data close to HPC), data analytics, cost models for the computing time required (David Carrera - BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 17:00 Session 6b: Hands-on session