The Overlooked Role of Moist Northerlies as a Source ofSummer Rainfall in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert

On 23rd November 2023, the CESOC partner University of Cologne (UoC) invited the staff of the European Center for Medium-Ranged Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
GEWEX SSG Visit to the Ahr Valley

These days, the 38th GEWEX Scientific Steering Group (SSG-38) meeting, hosted by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s […]
STEP UP! Fellowship Half Time Event

About one year after the launch of the second cohort of the STEP UP! Fellowship, fellows, supervisors – scientists from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the German Weather […]
International Women’s Day

“We often seem to think more about what others think of them, and therefore we are more cautious. – This can shape whose voices are heard and whose ideas remain […]
AlgoEarth-CESOC Workshop “Advancing AI Climate Models”

On March 4th and 5th, 2026, top researchers from Europe and beyond convened at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Cologne for the workshop on “Advancing AI Climate Models”. […]
Save the date: MLESM in August 2026

Fourth round of our Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling (MLESM) workshop is coming up. Planning is underway, and our well-known workshop in Bonn will take place on 24–26 August, […]
Back on air: AI & JUPITER at WDR 5 Wirtschaftsmagazin

This time, Alina Bazarova, Thomas Lippert, Director of Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) Centre, and CESOC Director Martin Schultz spoke with Helga Hermanns about why exascale computer JUPITER is particularly suited for AI, […]
Five Young Women Receive the Astrid Kiendler-Scharr Scholarship
AlgoEarth & CESOC Workshop “Advancing AI Climate Models”

Machine learning is increasingly used in weather and climate science. While AI-based weather forecasts can now rival or outperform traditional Numerical Weather Prediction at short time scales, extending these methods […]
Listen Up: The WeatherGenerator – From Sunny to Data-Heavy

Tune in! Get exciting insights into modern weather forecasting and the future of meteorology! The Deutschlandfunk report (in German) focuses on the WeatherGenerator: our researchers Peter Dueben & Christian Lessig […]