Climate Modelling Research Group

The Climate Modelling research group at Oxford combines climate and computer science to build better models of the climate on Earth and other planets. We do research on numerical modelling, machine learning and high-performance computing for efficient predictions of future climates; data compression and information theory; and software engineering to build next-generation climate models.

Project Highlights

SpeedyWeather.jl

An interactive, flexible atmospheric model built to accelerate climate research.

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Data compression and BitInformation

Compressing atmospheric data into its real information content

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Testing generalisation of Machine Learning-based models

Machine learning has to respect the physics to generalise to future climates

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News

26/03 - Niklas submitted his MSc thesis on automatic differentiation in SpeedyWeather to ETH Zürich.
26/03 - Hannah submitted her report on planetary habitability with SpeedyWeather as her first ILESLA rotation project!
26/02 - Milan published an article in The Conversation.
26/02 - Milan and Simone Silvestri (U Torino) ran a workshop in Edinburgh on Julia, GPUs and Earth-system modelling, published as PolarPlunge.jl.
26/01 - Welcome to Hannah-Jane and Greg as new members of our group!

26/03 - Niklas submitted his MSc thesis on automatic differentiation in SpeedyWeather to ETH Zürich.
26/03 - Hannah submitted her report on planetary habitability with SpeedyWeather as her first ILESLA rotation project!
26/02 - Milan published an article in The Conversation.
26/02 - Milan and Simone Silvestri (U Torino) ran a workshop in Edinburgh on Julia, GPUs and Earth-system modelling, published as PolarPlunge.jl.
26/01 - Welcome to Hannah-Jane and Greg as new members of our group!
26/01 - New paper is out in Nature Communications Earth & Environment on aviation efficiency!
25/11 - New preprint on differentiable programming with Enzyme applied to different Earth-System model components, including SpeedyWeather and Oceananigans!
25/10 - New paper on hybrid physics-machine learning model with Maximilian Gelbrecht and Niklas Boers has been published in JAMES!
25/10 - Milan was invited to give the annual lecture of Oxford’s Doctoral Training Centre on interactive climate modelling – live coding included, of course.
25/09 - SpeedyWeather was used for the hands-on sessions at the NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School this week! SpeedyWeather is taking over the teaching of the next generation of climate modellers. Thanks for everyone involved to make this possible.
25/09 - Valentin Churavy (U Mainz and U Augsburg and Enzyme developer) and Milan Klöwer gave a joint presentation on Differentiable programming for scientific computing with Enzyme and Julia at the ML coupling workshop in Cambridge UK last week! Pluto notebook of the talk is here.
25/06 - Juniper Tyree won the 3-minute thesis at the University of Helsinki for presenting their work on Fearlessly Compression Weather and Climate Data. Congratulations!
25/06 - Maren Höver (DPhil Intelligent Earth CDT) presented her work on Testing Spatial Generalizability in Machine Learning-Based Weather Prediction Models at the EXCLAIM Symposium at ETH Zürich. Well done!
25/03 - Let’s goooo! With the start of Milan’s NERC Independent Research Fellowship we are building the Climate Modelling Research Group at Oxford! We are based in AOPP, that is the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Science sub-department in Oxford’s Department of Physics.

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