EERIE General Assembly 2025

13 Jan 2025, 18:00 → 17 Jan 2025, 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Zurich, CH

Thomas Jung (Alfred Wegener Institut), Malcolm Roberts (METOFFICE), Pier Luigi Vidale (UREAD)

The event will take place in person in Zurich at the ETH for three full days (Tue-Thu):

Monday is reserved for arrival and Friday for potential side-meetings as well as departure.

Please note:

All plenary sessions & most other sessions will be recorded.

During the breakout group time slots, we will aim to plan parallel sessions on the same topic if many people are interested. If you are interested in hosting a breakout group, please get in touch.

WiFi at ETH Zürich:

• eduROAM is available everywhere on campus
• for all others, there is an open ETH Guest network: ETH/Visitors

 

Funding acknowledgment:

This event is part of the EERIE project funded by the European Union. Views and opinions  expressed are however those of the participants only and do not necessarily reflect those of the  European Union or the European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).  Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. 

This event has received funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and  Innovation (SERI) under contract #22.00366. 

This event was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon  Europe funding guarantee (grant number 10057890, 10049639, 10040510, 10040984). 

 

Monday 13 January

19:00 → 21:00 Get-together

optional for those who have arrived already (own costs)

Reservation at
Restaurant Commihalle
(marked with a cross on map in https://events.hifis.net/event/1682/page/499-how-to-get-there)
Stampfenbachstrasse 8
CH-8001 Zürich
+41 44 250 59 60
https://www.commihalle.ch

Tuesday 14 January

08:30 → 09:00 Registration and Coffee

(purple area and green floor)

09:00 → 09:30 Plenary: Welcoming words from the host & update from the coordinator

Chairs: Nicolas Gruber & Thomas Jung
(blue room)

09:30 → 10:15 Plenary: Impact of the ocean mesoscale on ocean model biases

Chair: Anne-Marie Treguier
- input by WP6 scientists
- 30 min presentation
- 15 min joint discussion
(blue room)

10:15 → 11:15 Plenary: Invited talk by Andreas Prein

Chair: Pier Luigi Vidale
Andreas Prein: "Earth System Modelling: Small Scales, Big Hopes" (40 min)
Joint discussion (20 min)
(blue room)

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee break

(green floor)

11:45 → 12:45 Plenary: Updates from modelling & data centres

Chair: Thomas Jung
Chathurika Wickramage & Fabian Wachsmann: FAIR data & data availability (10 min)
Simulation status:
- AWI by Rohit Ghosh (15 min)
- BSC by Pablo Ortega (7 min)
- ECMWF by Chris Roberts (7 min)
- MET OFFICE by Malcolm Roberts (6 min)
- MPI by Jin-Song von Storch (5 min)
Open questions / discussion (10 min)
(blue room)

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

joint walk back and forth to Clausiusbar

13:45 → 14:30 Plenary: Lightning round

Chair: Malcolm Roberts
Update-related lightning slot (90 seconds per poster):
Which important scientific insights are new and how do they impact EERIE? (45 min in total)
(blue room)

14:30 → 15:15 Coffee break with poster session

(green floor)

15:15 → 16:15 Breakout groups

• AMOC (alternatives to NAHosMIP) Chair: Jin-Song von Storch (yellow room)
• Innovative use of ML; Chairs: Hannah Christensen & Katja Weigel (white room)
• Data availability & access; Chairs: Fabian Wachsmann & Chathurika Wickramage (black room)
• Additional BOGs upon request (orange room)

16:15 → 16:20 Health break

16:20 → 17:20 Breakout groups

• Experimental Design revisited (smarter ways of doing HR simulation); Chair: Rohit Ghosh (yellow room)
• Eddy-impact on atmosphere; Chairs: Nicolas Gruber & Fraser Goldsworth (white room)
• Africa (e.g., a better representation of the SST patterns (model biases) in the Southeast Atlantic, the equatorial upwelling and the West Africa Monsoon, teleconnections between ENSO and Africa climate); Chairs: Wilfried Pokam & Ross Blamey (black room)
• Additional BOGs upon request (orange room)

17:20 → 17:25 Health break

17:25 → 18:10 Plenary: Reporting back from Breakout groups & joint wrap-up

Chairs: Thomas Jung & Malcolm Roberts
5 min per breakout group, 15 minutes discussion & wrap-up
(blue room)

18:10 → 18:25 Plenary: Data Viewer Teaser and "Award ceremony"

Chairs: Markel Garcia & Javier Triana
A first glimpse at the Data Viewer and presentation of awards for EERIE successes - hosted by PREDICTIA
(blue room)

18:25 → 18:35 Group photo

18:35 → 18:45 Health break

18:45 → 20:45 Joint working dinner with interactive poster session

Chair: Thomas Jung
The poster session will focus on joint publication projects where everyone's input is needed.
(green floor)

Wednesday 15 January

08:30 → 09:00 Registration and Coffee

(purple area and green floor)

09:00 → 09:15 Plenary: Directions for the day & project update

Chair: Thomas Jung & EERIE Project Office
- Introduction of breakout group topics (current status)
- General status quo of the project
(blue room)

09:15 → 09:45 Plenary: Scientific talks

Chair: Ramiro Saurral
- Aaron Wienkers: "Spectral & Causal Analysis of Air-Sea Coupling Feedbacks" (10 min)
- Stella Bērziņa: "Mesoscale eddies in high-resolution models" (10 min)
- 10 min joint discussion
(blue room)

09:45 → 10:45 Coffee break and poster session

(green floor)

10:45 → 12:00 Breakout groups

Lessons learned from Phase 1 simulations in three groups:
- group hosted by Thomas Jung (black room)
- group hosted by Malcolm Roberts (white room) &
- group hosted by Pier Luigi Vidale (yellow room)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

meeting point: purple area (welcome desk)
joint walk back and forth to Clausiusbar

13:30 → 14:45 Breakout groups

• Data Viewer, Storylines, & integration of Impact Assessment Models; Chairs: Gert Versteeg & Nayeli Liprandi Cortes (black room)
• Trends in the upper ocean (discussing SST, SSS, mixed layer depth, and eddy kinetic energy together); Chair: Anne Marie Treguier (white room)
• Remote Data Processing; Chair: Fabian Wachsmann & Chathurika Wickramage (yellow room)
• Additional BOGs upon request (orange room)

14:45 → 15:30 Coffee break with networking & discussion of joint publications

(green floor)
WP8 meeting (black room)

15:30 → 16:00 Joint work on the EERIE impact tracker

Please complete the Impact Tracker, Zenodo and GitHub - for questions, the PREDICTIA Team, the EERIE Project Office, Nikolay Koldunov, Fabian Wachsmann, and Malcolm Roberts will be available.
(blue room)

16:00 → 17:00 Plenary: Report of all breakout groups to the plenary (with discussion)

Chair: Nicolas Gruber
5 min per breakout group, 15 minutes discussion, 15 minutes earmarked for open issues
(blue room)

17:00 → 17:15 Plenary: Wrap up & outlook for tomorrow

Chair: Thomas Jung
(blue room)

17:20 → 18:45 Time-slot for WP meetings & self-organised evening programme

• WP6 meeting (white room)
• WP7 meeting (black room)

Thursday 16 January

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome and coffee

(purple area and green floor)

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary: Invited presentations

Chair: Malcolm Roberts
- Helene Hewitt: "CMIP7 and beyond: opportunities for high resolution" (30 min)
- Robb Wills: "Investigating the up-scale influence of mesoscale processes on large-scale climate dynamics: Will increased model resolution improve climate projections?" (30 min)
- 30 min joint discussion
(blue room)

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee break with group photo

(please stay inside this room for a group photo, we then go together to the green floor)

11:15 → 12:45 Breakout groups

Recommendations for Phase 2 simulations in three groups:
- group hosted by Thomas Jung (black room)
- group hosted by Malcolm Roberts (white room) &
- group hosted by Pier Luigi Vidale (yellow room)

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break in canteen (own costs)

meeting point: in front of the blue room (plenary), if wanted for the joint walk back and forth to Clausiusbar

14:00 → 14:30 Plenary: Report of Phase 2 simulations breakout groups to the plenary (with discussion)¶

Chair: Pablo Ortega
(blue room)

14:30 → 15:30 Parallel sessions

Separate invitation: GB Meeting; Chair: Thomas Jung (black room)
2 sessions on the same topic: "How can we make EERIE more successful (science, admin, communication, ...)? What are your objectives within the EERIE community, what has remained with you from yesterday?"
Group 1: young scientists (PhD students & PostDocs until year 3); Chairs: Stephy Libera & Jan-Philipp Gärtner (white room)
Group 2: senior scientists (all others); Chairs: Audrey Delpech & Nikolay Koldunov (yellow room)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

(green floor)

16:00 → 16:30 Plenary: Reporting back by Groups 1 & 2: How to shape EERIE's future?

Chair: Fraser Goldsworth
10 min per group and 10 min joint discussion (including updates on joint publications)
(blue room)

16:30 → 17:00 Plenary: Reporting back from the GB Meeting - guidance for the future and discussion

Chairs: Thomas Jung, Malcolm Roberts & Pier Luigi Vidale
10 min reporting back, 10 min vision, 10 min joint discussion
(blue room)

17:00 → 17:10 Plenary: Additional Awards & Closure of the assembly

Chair: EERIE Project Office & Thomas Jung
(blue room)

17:15 → 19:20 Possible time-slot for WP meetings if needed & self-organised evening programme

• WP5 working meeting 17:15 - 18:30 (white room)
• Health break 18:30 - 18:35
• Eddy compositing workflow 18:35 - 19:20 (black room)

Friday 17 January

09:00 → 12:00 Working meeting for modelers (upon invitation only)

Chair: Pier Luigi Vidale
(black room)