Lectures

Monday June/2/2025
8:30am - 9:00 Lecture 1: Welcome and logistics (Christiane Jablonowski (UM) and Peter Lauritzen (NCAR))

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LEyiRgXlBmeqjvwe064X_E8wa717Vnid/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

9:00am - 10:00am Lecture 2: Overview of General Circulation Modeling, scales, and dynamical cores (Adam Herrington, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NgxQdlkzvVQR7ckXn5NgiLeI-dWB07Qo1nl8TMRwnJI/edit?usp=drive_link

10:30am - 11:30am Lecture 3: Overview of Machine Learning (ML) Approaches, use of ML in atmospheric science for weather and climate (William Chapman, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-iOzz_pE-1Ip5ULctPFmcD2GSF_IAaVQ/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

11:30am-12:45pm Lecture 4: Introduction to the Hands-on component of DCMIP and the DCMIP-2025 test cases (Timothy Andrews, Owen Hughes, Nicholas Androski, Christiane Jablonowski (all UM), and Joshua Elms, Indiana University)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uyN1ae-IDybAtBD-GIOIt4vndvcHIxn1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

Tuesday June/3/2025
8:30am - 9:00 Lecture 5 (Short Course): DCMIP visualization options & Python scripts (Timothy Andrews and Anthony Chen, UM)-- LIVE DEMO

9:00am - 10:00am Lecture 6 (Design of Dynamical Cores): Equation Sets and Computational Grids (Christiane Jablonowski, UM)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JTTxZOs0ebuLBlBoIHNKWm7pQpxWYjRt/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

10:30am - 11:30am Lecture 7 (Design of Dynamical Cores): Horizontal discretizations, advection, and grid staggering options (Owen Hughes, UM)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o3QdDRwV-N2k6P36uwwngPeYuQa9kT6l/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

11:30am-12:00pm Lecture 8: Idealized Assessments of GCM ML Emulators (Gregory Hakim, University of Washington, remote presentation)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FD5WWuGyPJKWD3DcWX6Qd4xPv68CfgqG/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

12:00pm-12:20pm Lecture 9: Perspective from NVIDIA: ML weather forecast emulators (David Hall, NVIDIA)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10uKbair9G1dz-xcD4hWXmPa4iwCB6Eac/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

12:20pm-12:40pm Lecture 10: Perspective from Google: ML weather forecast emulators (Dmitrii (Dima) Kochkov, Google Research) 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gGkBBv5cq-Oz6w3ujnCtnTCTS90cLK8h/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

Wednesday June/4/2025

8:30am - 9:30am Lecture 11 (Design of Dynamical Cores): Vertical coordinates, vertical staggering, vertical boundary conditions, and conservation properties (David Randall, CSU)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5H-_Py86fkEvXfEHtFcBMEwjqRCaXWP/view?usp=drive_link

9:30am - 10:00 Lecture 12 (Short Course): The Design Aspects of the MPAS dynamical core (David Randall, CSU)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12qlry1vsAbXvhxUoD9AprVbpfLtOJ-Sj/view?usp=drive_link

10:30am - 11:30am Lecture 13 (Design of Dynamical Cores): Temporal discretizations (Peter Bosler, Sandia Labs)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xx0jkqo2UKlWehgOgNgHxgZJd2B9nJvH/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=115954019650692761759&rtpof=true 

11:30am-12:30pm Lecture 14 (Design of Dynamical Cores): Dissipation properties (Christiane Jablonowski, UM)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l7JTfJNiCl9m0h6-wVu1Z47e2-gRW2nW/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

Thursday June/5/2025
8:30am - 9:00 Lecture 15 (Short Course): The Design Aspects of the SE dynamical core (Mark Taylor, Sandia Labs)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ds95rcWPaAizjFseZDue61Q_VCTVc4UW/view?usp=drive_link

9:00am - 9:30 Lecture 16 (Short Course): The Design Aspects of the FV3 dynamical core (Christiane Jablonowski, UM)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bLguBE_nHLv5kim98y4Qs2N69b3Vdju0/view?usp=drive_link

9:30am - 10:00 Lecture 17 (Short Course): The Design Aspects of the U.K. Met Office dynamical core LFRIC (Thomas Bendall, U.K. Met Office)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qMTPQUROoE8mUnF-wVG40oWSYi6ThouO/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

10:30am - 11am Lecture 18 (Short Course): Programming paradigms, parallel computing concepts for GCMs, and parallel performance aspects (Mark Taylor, Sandia Labs)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IbzC9rkuP31DYdL615P8W0rMv_FSmwcf/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

11:00am - 12pm Lecture 19: Physics-Dynamics Coupling: grids, time-split versus process split,accuracy (Peter Lauritzen, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1veCmnW-xmGt84nySJhYWSEIvp13ntGBx/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

12pm-12:30pm Lecture 20: Design of coupled weather and climate models, technical aspects of the coupling, coupling frequency, coupling software (David Lawrence, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cQolFqvHYQUAqMdnB1DY0h06JHRdZ2p4/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

Friday June/6/2025
8:30am - 9:00 Lecture 21 (Short course): Model hierarchies and the CESM Simpler Models Framework, international MIPs (Isla Simpson, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZUIuI8QY_vIdf7tESq71_dd4dzSxxCZz/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

9:00am - 10:00am Lecture 22: Overview of Physical Parameterizations  (Richard Neale, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vbUgqyGGN5xHmI0OXobEPH37OmTGMLyl/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=115954019650692761759&rtpof=true 

10:30am - 11:30am Lecture 23: Tuning of climate models (Cecile Hannay and Brian Mederios, NCAR)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AGOCFbBTqlwiDjv3HDNrNyBQuQh6daJK/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

11:30am-12:00pm Lecture 24a: Prospects & frontiers in Weather and Climate: High-resolution Earth system models for prediction across space and time (Colin Zarzycki, Penn State University) 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iVldzCN6GqJCOoV6j2RGcQpjcNj2JSLO/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true

12:00am-12:30pm Lecture 24b: Prospects and Frontiers in Weather and Climate: Machine Learning (Travis O'Brien, Indiana University) 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PHcB4j1eHO_RtBlGkDspS-0aO6K7X6_p/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=104403817786874167330&rtpof=true&sd=true