Oliver Fuhrer, member of the EXCLAIM Executive Committee, has been appointed by the ETH board as Titular professor at D-USYS. Oliver is a lecturer at ETH Zurich and head of the Department of Numerical Forecasting at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) and has collaborated with ETH in various roles over many years.
Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich und the lead principal investigator of the EXCLAIM project, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
On 14 September, ETH Zurich officially inaugurated the new 'Alps' supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano. The celebrations in Lugano were attended by Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin and well-known personalities from the worlds of science and politics.
The scientific and research community in Germany and Switzerland is setting a milestone in climate and weather research: Since 31 January, 2024, the renowned climate and weather model ICON has been made available to the public under an open source license. This step will open up the scientific basis for weather forecasts and climate projections and make it available to everyone.
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), ETH Zurich, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) are teaming up to make weather and climate models more efficient and accurate on newly developed computer architectures. In particular, it is about the efficient portability of the ECMWF model to GPUs.
