Ringvorlesung 2025 "KI, Klima und Energie - Innovationen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft"
The digital revolution of weather and climate modelling
Referent: Peter Düben (EZMWF Bonn) - Vortrag auf Englisch
Kurzbeschreibung:
This talk will outline three revolutions that happened in Earth system modelling in the past decades. The quiet revolution has leveraged better observations and more compute power to allow for constant improvements of prediction quality of the last decades, the digital revolution has enabled us to perform km-scale simulations on modern supercomputers that further increase the quality of our models, and the machine learning revolution has now shown that machine-learned weather models are competitive with physics based weather models for many forecast scores while being easier, smaller and cheaper. This talk will summarize the past developments, explain current challenges and opportunities, and outline how the future of Earth system modelling will look like. In particular, regarding machine-learned foundation models in a physical domain such as Earth system modelling.