Juliacon 2024

Discussion: Earth and climate science in Julia
07-12, 16:40–17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam), While Loop (4.2)

Using Julia for Earth and climate science has the potential to combine the best of both worlds: The speed of Fortran and the interactivity and productivity of Python, empowering users to be developers and developers to be users. In this minisymposium speakers will present software projects both from a user and a developer perspective. Talks are encouraged to discuss both use cases of existing software as well as the development of user-friendly software.


Using Julia for Earth and climate science has the potential to combine the best of both worlds: The speed of Fortran and the interactivity and productivity of Python, empowering users to be developers and developers to be users. In this minisymposium speakers will present software projects both from a user and a developer perspective. Talks are encouraged to discuss both use cases of existing software as well as the development of user-friendly software.

Milan is a postdoctoral associate in climate modelling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Oxford working on low-precision climate computing and data compression. During his PhD, Milan established the concept of the bitwise real information content for data compression. He worked with posit numbers and stochastic rounding and invented a logarithmic fixed-point number format. He ran the first 16-bit weather and climate simulation on Fujitsu's A64FX, the CPU that powers Fugaku. He writes and maintains many Julia packages. Most recently, he wrote SpeedyWeather.jl, an atmospheric general circulation model with a focus on interactivity and extensibility to further accelerate research into computationally efficient weather and climate models.

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I am currently pursuing a PhD in Physics and Earth Sciences at Leipzig University, Germany, and Valencia, Spain, as a member of the ELLIS PhD program. My research focuses on the application of machine learning in Earth systems. I am part of the team at the Remote Sensing Center for Earth System Research (RSC4Earth), working under the supervision of Prof. Miguel D. Mahecha and Dr. Karin Mora. In addition, I have an affiliation with the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI).

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Postdoc researcher at IGE, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

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