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CAFE participates in the 'Ciència al Carrer' exhibition in Sitges

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Sitges hosted on Friday 15th a new edition of the Dia de la Ciència al Carrer (Day of Science in the Street). More than 25 displays and experiments prepared by several entities and educational centers were seen at La Fragata. 1,300 students participated in this annual meeting for scientific dissemination.

The City Council of Sitges, together with the Garraf Educational Service, organise the day, framed within the Science Week at Garraf, offering a unique opportunity for primary and high school students to approach science in an interactive and fun way. 

The CAFE project was present at the exhibition doing experiments and explaining how extreme weather effects affect human communities and how the CAFE project is working on improving the sub-seasonal forecast of such events. The CAFE ESRs took the lead in preparing and doing the experiments with the local students that approached the stand.

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CAFE participates in the ‘Ciència al Carrer’ exhibition in Sitges

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Sitges hosted on Friday 15th a new edition of the Dia de la Ciència al Carrer (Day of Science in the Street). More than 25 displays and experiments prepared by several entities and educational centers were seen at La Fragata. 1,300 students participated in this annual meeting for scientific dissemination.

The City Council of Sitges, together with the Garraf Educational Service, organise the day, framed within the Science Week at Garraf, offering a unique opportunity for primary and high school students to approach science in an interactive and fun way. 

The CAFE project was present at the exhibition doing experiments and explaining how extreme weather effects affect human communities and how the CAFE project is working on improving the sub-seasonal forecast of such events. The CAFE ESRs took the lead in preparing and doing the experiments with the local students that approached the stand.

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Copernicus Climate Data Store Face-to-Face Training Event

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To kick off the 1st CAFE School, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica is pleased to host a face-to-face event in Barcelona on 13th November 2019, in collaboration with the CAFE partner ECMWF.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service * (C3S) User Learning Services (ULS) provide learning resources and events to support those who need to use climate data to assess climate change impacts.  Past, current and future climate data are accessed via the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS). In the CDS you can find quality assured, free of charge climate information. The CDS provides an extensive collection of climate datasets, easily searchable through a catalogue. In addition, an online toolbox allows users to build workflows and applications suited to their needs.

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The C3S ULS uses a blended training approach. This is based on individual self-paced learning, using online resources available on the ULS Learning Experience Platform, combined with a full day face-to-face training event. Expert trainers guide participants through the full day training, discussing complex concepts encountered during the self-paced study and helping participants to apply their acquired knowledge to practical case studies. Targeted audiences include graduate students in related topics, researchers from academia and practitioners from industry who would like to explore how climate data can benefit their work in areas such as agriculture, biodiversity, water management, risk analysis etc.

* The Copernicus Climate Change Service implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Commission.

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ECMWF Annual Seminar 2019

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The ECMWF Annual Seminar, held in Reading (UK) from 2 to 5 of September 2019, showcased the recent progress and prospects in sub-seasonal and seasonal forecasting.

This year’s ECMWF Annual Seminar, the flagship of the ECMWF’s calendar, reviewed recent advances in our understanding of the predictability at subseasonal and seasonal scales. Participants discussed current forecasting capabilities and new but proved results from numerical experimentation and exploitation of public data bases. It was also window into emerging advances related to data exploration, forecast products and predictability drivers, which will shape the future of unified forecasting systems. 

The seminar is part of ECMWF’s educational programme and was aimed at young scientists, but also more established scientists interested in subseasonal and seasonal forecasting. One of the organisers, Laura Ferranti, partner of the CAFE project and an expert with decades of knowledge on the field, talked about the focus of his work and the topics presented during the seminar.

“A lot of progress has been made as part of the WMO’s Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project’’ explained Ferranti, ‘’more and more institutions have begun to produce S2S forecasts operationally; and demand from users interested in seamless predictions from minutes to months ahead is growing.”

Seasonal forecasts (more than two months ahead) began to be produced as a pilot project at ECMWF from the late nineties, while sub-seasonal forecasts only followed in 2004, as a spin-off from seasonal forecasting to cover the then called predictability desert.

Although the expected developments and predictability drivers diverge between the subseasonal and seasonal scales, forecast at these time ranges is a mixture of early and frontier problems. Sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions act as a bridge between weather and climate.

A particular concern at the sub-seasonal range is the ability to predict high-impact, large-scale and long-lived weather events, such as cold spells or heatwaves.

“That’s an ambitious goal, but we are making progress’’ said Ferranti. ‘’Tests have shown that an experimental product to predict cold spells in Europe has useful skill up to two and a half weeks ahead.”

Registration form for the ‘Copernicus’ training

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We have closed the reception of applications for the MSCA ITN CAFE call; Interviews to start soon

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We are excited to announce that the open call for the 12 PhD Positions for the MSCA ITN CAFE: Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes closed its period for receiving applications this week. In the upcoming days, the candidates that have been successfully reviewed will be called by the supervisors of the 12 Early Stage Research projects for the personal interviews.

This project will train a team of experienced interdisciplinary researchers in atmospheric and oceanic processes, in extreme meteorological phenomena and tools for their prediction. CAFE research is structured in three WP: Atmospheric and oceanic processes, Extreme events and Tools for predictability, and brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

Ten organisations from across Europe, plus the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, will collaborate during the CAFE project, coordinated by the CRM. The other European organisations involved are the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (all three in Germany), the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (with the Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos and the Institut de Ciències del Mar) the UPC, the French forecast agency Météo-France, the French company ARIA Technologies, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

The CAFE consortium is completed by another 11 partners, who will contribute to training 12 young researchers in climate science, meteorology, statistics and nonlinear physics.

Kick-off for the 'Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes' project

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This week marks the start of the Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes project funded through the H2020 programme (Project “813844 — CAFE — H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018), with the official kick-off being held in Mallorca. This project will train a team of experienced interdisciplinary researchers in atmospheric and oceanic processes, in extreme meteorological phenomena and tools for their prediction.

Climate extremes such as heat waves or tropical storms have a huge social and economic impact. The forecasting of such extreme events at the sub-seasonal time scale (from 10 days to 3 months) is challenging. Since the atmosphere and the ocean are coupled systems of enormous complexity, in order to advance sub-seasonal predictability of extreme events, it is crucial to train a new kind of interdisciplinary top-level researchers. CAFE research is structured in three WP: Atmospheric and oceanic processes, Extreme events and Tools for predictability, and brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

Ten organizations from across Europe, plus the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, will collaborate during the CAFE project, coordinated by the CRM. The other European organizations involved are the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (all three in Germany), the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the UPC, the French forecast agency Météo-France, the French company ARIA Technologies, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

The CAFE consortium is completed by another 11 partners, who will contribute to training 12 young researchers in climate science, meteorology, statistics and nonlinear physics.

Kick-off for the ‘Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes’ project

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This week marks the start of the Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes project funded through the H2020 programme (Project “813844 — CAFE — H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018), with the official kick-off being held in Mallorca. This project will train a team of experienced interdisciplinary researchers in atmospheric and oceanic processes, in extreme meteorological phenomena and tools for their prediction.

Climate extremes such as heat waves or tropical storms have a huge social and economic impact. The forecasting of such extreme events at the sub-seasonal time scale (from 10 days to 3 months) is challenging. Since the atmosphere and the ocean are coupled systems of enormous complexity, in order to advance sub-seasonal predictability of extreme events, it is crucial to train a new kind of interdisciplinary top-level researchers. CAFE research is structured in three WP: Atmospheric and oceanic processes, Extreme events and Tools for predictability, and brings together an interdisciplinary team of scientists.

Ten organizations from across Europe, plus the Universidad de la República in Uruguay, will collaborate during the CAFE project, coordinated by the CRM. The other European organizations involved are the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (all three in Germany), the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the UPC, the French forecast agency Météo-France, the French company ARIA Technologies, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

The CAFE consortium is completed by another 11 partners, who will contribute to training 12 young researchers in climate science, meteorology, statistics and nonlinear physics.