Understanding climate risk in future energy systems: an energy-climate data hackathon

Journal article

What: Approximately 40 participants – with expertise spanning energy, computer science, weather and climate research -– joined a week-long Energy-Climate data “hackathon” in June 2021. It was hosted by the Universities of Oxford and Reading in partnership with the UK Met Office as part of a series of themed hackathons supported by the Met Office and held in the run-up to the UN COP26 conference. Six projects were initiated and developed by teams over the course of the week, supported by access to state-of-the-art computational resources on the UK’s CEDA-JASMIN service, and stimulated by keynote speakers from industry and academia. The hackathon concluded with teams presenting their outputs to a panel of invited experts. Several teams plan to build on their hackathon success in publications, ongoing collaborations and research funding proposals. When: 18th May (half-day “scoping” event) & 21st-25th June 2021 (main hackathon) Where: Online via Zoom and Gather.Town, supported by Slack communication channels Affiliations: Initiated by: University of Oxford Dr Sarah Sparrow, Professor David Wallom, Professor Tim Woollings, & University of Reading Professor David Brayshaw, Dr Hannah Bloomfield, In partnership with the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological service, and with support from the UK’s CEDA-JASMIN service and Gurobi optimization software.

Authors: Fallon, JC; Bloomfield, HC; Brayshaw, DJ; Sparrow, SN; Wallom, DCH

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: American Meteorological Society
• Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 5
• Pages: E1321–E1329
• Publication date: 2022-02-05
• Acceptance date: 2022-02-01
• DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-21-0305.1
• EISSN: 1520-0477
• ISSN: 0003-0007
• Language: English
• Keywords: FFR