CANCELLED! RDA Climate Change Datathon

Date: 20/Apr/2020 Time: 14:00 - 21/Apr/2020 Time: 17:30

Place:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Campus Nord (Barcelona), Edificio C6 (E-106)

Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees will need to cover the expenses for travel and accommodation.

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This event is cancelled due to the recent COVID-19 developments.

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:

 

20th April:

 

14:00 - 14:30

Welcome and RDA presentations

Sara Garavelli (RDA: Research Data Alliance)

https://www.rd-alliance.org/

14:30 - 15:00

Data and Metadata standards in the climate sector

Antonio Cofiño (Santander Meteorology Group)

http://www.meteo.unican.es/

15:00 - 15:30

C3S use cases @ Tecnalia

Jorge Paz (Tecnalia)

https://www.tecnalia.com/es/

15:30 - 16:00  

C3S Seasonal Forecast data and applications

Stefano Materia (CMCC: Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici) 

https://www.cmcc.it/

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

 

16:30 - 17:00

WeatherBench: A benchmark dataset for data-driven weather forecasting

Stephan Rasp (Technical University of Munich)

https://www.misu.su.se/

17:00 - 17:30 

Machine Learning applications @ LobeliaEarth 

Mélissande Machefer (Lobelia Earth) 

https://www.lobelia.earth/

17:30 - 17:45

Wrap-up and conclusions

Francisco J Doblas Reyes (BSC)

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/doblas-reyes-francisco-j

 

21st April:

 

9:00 - 09:30

Welcome and C3S data overview

Carlo Lacagnina

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/lacagnina-carlo

9:30 - 10:15

Introducing the datathon context and exercises

Air quality forecasting with ML:

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/gomez-gonzalez-carlos

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/petetin-herve

Short-term weather forecasting (WeatherBench dataset)

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/pena-izquierdo-jesus

Copernicus C3S downstream applications:

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/lacagnina-carlo

Outlier detection in C3S data:

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/ca/sala-joan

https://gateway.bsc.es:11003/bretonniere-pierre-antoine-0

10:15 - 10:30

Match-making (groups)

Groups of 2-4 participants will be made in order to tackle the challenges. Bring your own laptop!

10:15 - 13:00

Hands-on exercises

Select one or two challenges to tackle. Work in teams with the support of the BSC mentors.

13:00 - 14:00  

Lunch break

 

14:00 - 17:00

Hands-on exercises

Continue the challenges and prepare a short presentation to share the outcome.

17:00 - 17:45 

Pitch session

Each group will be granted a 5min time slot to present their outcome from the challenges