Modernizing Weather Forecasting with Julia – Milan Klöwer on SpeedyWeather.jl

#20: Milan Klöwer joins Arfon and Abby to discuss SpeedyWeather.jl, its development, and its role in climate science.

Milan is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford.

You can follow Milan on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/milankloewer bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/milank.bsky.social and at his website milankl.github.io

Episode highlights:

• [01:10] - Introducing Milan Clover
• [01:56] - Understanding Atmospheric General Circulation Models
• [05:15] - The Evolution of Weather Prediction
• [07:23] - SpeedyWeather.jl: A New Approach
• [20:05] - The Legacy of Fortran in Climate Science
• [20:51] - Why Julia?
• [25:35] - Building SpeedyWeather.jl
• [26:11] - Interactive Modeling with SpeedyWeather.jl
• [34:07] - The Importance of Open Source in Climate Science
• [35:29] - Call for Contributors
• [40:53] - Final Thoughts and Future Plans

Links:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06323
• SpeedyWeather.jl repository: https://github.com/SpeedyWeather/SpeedyWeather.jl
• Milan’s website: milankl.github.io
• Milan social media: X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/milankloewer bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/milank.bsky.social
• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)
• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• Donate to JOSS

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