We are pleased to announce the fourth Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling following a series of three workshops, as well as the second Hackathon on Machine Learning for the Earth System

The workshop will take place on August 24 – 26, 2026 in the Universitätsclub Bonn, Germany. 

Registration and abstract submission will open soon. Check the timeline below for more information

The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working at the interface of machine learning and Earth system sciences to exchange perspectives and discuss recent advances in large-scale ML approaches for Earth system modelling. Topics will include:

• Machine learning-based numerical weather prediction
• Machine learning-based climate models and climate models
• Machine learning-based Earth system component models
• Use of Earth system observations for training
• Evaluation and explainability of the above models and studies on their limits and physicality
• Datasets for model training, evaluation and benchmarks

Read about our workshop last years, 2025 and 2024.

Attention: Information about the workshop for all registered participants will be sent via mlesm-workshop@cesoc.net or mlesm-registrations@cesoc.net. Please make sure to mark them as safe, i.e., not spam/junk.

No time to attend our MLESM event but interested anyway, stay tuned and subscribe at mlesm-workshop@listen.uni-bonn.de.

Scientific Review Committee:

• Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

• Jürgen Gall (University of Bonn)

• Katherine Haynes (Colorado State University)

• Dale Durran (University of Washington)

Local Organising Committee:

• Martin Schultz (Jülich Supercomputing Center) 

• Christian Lessig (ECMWF)

• Hana Mohammed(CESOC Coordination)

• Daniel Minge (TRA Modelling, University of Bonn)

• Agnes Lohs (Jülich Supercomputing Center)

We gratefully acknowledge the support by
CESOC, ECMWF, the TRA Modelling at the University of Bonn, the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University of Cologne.

Acknowledgement: The Microsoft CMT service will be used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

For questions please contact us via email:
mlesm-workshop@cesoc.net