Wider outreach activities
Climate’s Mightiest Models
In the LEGO game Climate’s Mightiest Models by Emilie Byermoen, Mahaut de Vareilles, Francine Schevenhoven and Lea Svendsen, you will learn about what the climate models scientists use to predict the climate in the future. What is actually a climate model, and how do scientists build one? And what does supermodelling mean? You will see it in this game. Learn more about the game on this website, where you can also download the material to start playing yourself!
We visited several schools in Bergen, Norway, with Climate’s Mightiest Models as part of Forskningsdagene 2023, the National Science Week, and Arendalsuke 2023, the largest annual political gathering in Norway. We also participated in the Marineholmen festival in Bergen in 2022, organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bergen, to show the citizens of Bergen the research we get up to at the University.
Digital supermodel game
To reach an even wider audience, and hopefully increase climate literacy and further engage society in climate-related discussions, we are currently developing a digital game structured around the principles of supermodelling, that you can just play on your phone! Supported by funding from UiB Idé programme and the NFR NorSUPER project, we have built a prototype together with partners at LEVATO, a company specialised in game-based learning. We are now seeking further financial support and planning phase 2 for development into a full game. Watch this space!
Meetings and presentations
AOGS 2024
Supermodelling was presented at the AOGS 2024, held in June 2024 in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit (BCPU) workshop 2024
In the BCPU workshop on Climate Prediction and Services over the Atlantic-Arctic region, held in Bergen, Norway and online from May 27-30th 2024 we presented several talks about supermodelling.
Visit University of Tokyo 2024
In March 2023, we were invited to give an online seminar, and in March 2024 we visited the University of Tokyo in person, were we presented supermodelling both in a workshop and a seminar, to different groups.
International Symposium on Data Assimilation 2023
In Bologna, Italy, we participated in the yearly ISDA conference in October 2023.
SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences 2023
June 20th and June 22nd 2023, we contributed with two invited talks about supermodelling.
EGU 2023
After four years we returned to the EGU in Vienna, with multiple presentations about supermodelling in several sessions.
Climate Informatics 2023
April 19-21 we participated in the yearly Climate Informatics workshop, this year in Cambridge, UK.
AGU 2022
At the AGU 2022 in Chicago, USA, we contributed with supermodelling presentations to two different sessions about extreme variability and data assimilation.
Annual meeting 2019
June 12-14th the annual meeting was held in Bergen, Norway. We presented our work on combining state-of-the-art models, results for synchronized intermediate complex models and neural network supermodeling. Also we enjoyed a couple of invited talks on the wind-driven ocean circulation (Michael Ghil, UCLA) and pseudo-orbit data assimilation (Hailiang Du, Durham University).
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2019 (DS19)
At the DS19 meeting we organized the minisymposium Supermodeling an Objective Process by Synchronization of Different Models. Using supermodels formed from climate models and from models of cancer tissue development, this minisymposium addressed issues of training and inter-model coupling, as well as the nonlinearities that make supermodeling superior to ex post facto combination of separate model outputs. Abstracts can be found here .
EGU 2019
At the EGU meeting we organized the session Ensemble Methods for Combining Different Climate (and Weather) Models with several orals and posters about supermodels. Abstracts can be found here .
STERCP meeting December 2018
December 3rd and 4th another STERCP meeting was held in Bergen, Norway. We each gave an update on our work and enjoyed presentations on combining data assimilation and machine learning (Julien Brajard, NERSC) and using contextual model evidence for model selection (Richard Davy, NERSC).
STERCP meeting March 2018
March 22-23 a STERCP meeting was held in Bergen, Norway. We gave an update on our work on combining state-of-the-art models and results for synchronized intermediate complex models, among other things.
Annual meeting 2017
June 26th and June 27th the annual meeting was held in Bergen, Norway. We presented our work on combining state-of-the-art models and results for synchronized intermediate complex models, among other things.
EGU 2017
At the EGU meeting we participated in the session Climate Predictions – from monthly, seasonal to decadal time scales with an oral about efficient training algorithms for supermodels and a poster on SPEEDO supermodels. Abstracts can be found here .
Annual meeting 2016
October 6th and 7th the annual meeting was held in Bergen, Norway. New learning algorithms for supermodels were discussed as well as initial studies with global models.
EGU 2016
At the EGU meeting we participated in the session Climate Predictions – from monthly, seasonal to decadal time scales with an oral about synchronization in the SPEEDO models and posters on Bayesian attractor learning and synchronization of large-scale circulation. Abstracts can be found here.