Climate Informatics

When: Saturday, September 26th, all day
Where: National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR Mesa Lab, Boulder, Colorado
Website with all details: https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/events/ci2015/ci2015-hackathon
Read on for more details below.

Title: A New Look at Climate Diagnosis and Modeling in the Era of Climate Informatics

Update (6-16-2015): Abstract submission is NOW OPEN for this session!
Submission deadline: August 5, 2015.

Official weblink at AGU: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session7924

What: Climate Informatics Hackathon
Date: June 16, 2015
Location: Université Paris-Saclay (Paris, France)
Data: TAS data simulated by the CCSM4 model.
Task: Predict the temperature at surface (TAS) in the El Niño 3.4 region six months ahead.
This event was coordinated by Balázs Kégl (CNRS), Claire Monteleoni (GWU), Mahesh Mohan (GWU), Timothy DelSole (COLA), Kathleen Pegion (COLA), Julie Leloup (UPMC), Alex Gramfort (LTCI).

Video Tutorial -- Climate Change: Challenges for Machine Learning
Speakers: Arindam Banerjee and Claire Monteleoni
Conference: NIPS 2014 (Neural Information Processing Systems)
Great intro to machine learning applications in climate science (2 hour length).
Links: Video
Video Duration: 2 hours

CALL FOR PAPERS
Computing in Science & Engineering Magazine
Special Issue on Computing in Climate: Challenges and Opportunities
Deadline for white paper: March 31, 2015

The MIT Climate CoLab provides a platform for crowd sourcing to generate new solutions for climate change.

Citing from their website:
In the Climate CoLab, you can work with people from all over the world to create proposals for what to do about climate change.

Check it out at http://climatecolab.org/

We are excited to let you know that as of Sept 26, 2014, this site if finally open for general use!

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