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1 min read • Apr 14, 2026
Looking for Mentors!
Whether you are early in your career or an experienced researcher, meaningful connections can shape the path ahead. The WeatherGenerator Mentorship Program brings together professionals and researchers across career stages in an informal setting built for honest exchange and growth. The WeatherGenerator Mentorship Program is a 6-month initiative connecting experienced professionals and researchers with early career peers. Mentors share their experiences and perspectives, contributing to a diverse community, while mentees gain space to reflect on their goals, explore career topics, and grow their network.
- #Science Explainer
1 min read • Apr 02, 2026
Science Explainer 1: Can weather models predict power prices?
In the first instalment of the WeatherGenerator Science Explainer series, Even Nordhagen from Norwegian Meteorological Institute explains how the WeatherGenerator goes beyond traditional weather models, directly predicting energy - relevant variables like wind power output and reservoir inflow, without the need for separate downstream models. With a built-in long-term memory, the system can track slow-building processes like snowpack and soil moisture, and ultimately learn the full chain from atmospheric conditions to electricity markets.
1 min read • Mar 26, 2026
Video Highlights from Oslo
From 10–12 February 2026 WeatherGenerator project partners and participants met at Forskningsparken – Oslo Science Park, as well as online, for a dynamic programme combining an internal General Assembly, a public Dissemination & Stakeholder Day, and a hands-on Coding Workshop. The programme covered the technical foundations of WeatherGenerator: its architecture, training approach, data formats and applications - alongside contributions from our sister projects TerraDT and UrbanAIR and invited speakers working on AI-driven approaches to weather and climate science, including foundation modelling.
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5 min read • Mar 05, 2026
Women in WeatherGenerator: Celebrating International Women's Day
Science advances through the courage to ask bold questions and across the WeatherGenerator project, women are at the forefront of asking them. From developing the core AI architecture to adapting it for real-world applications in energy, health, and extreme weather forecasting, female researchers and engineers are shaping the future of AI-driven meteorology every day. WeatherGenerator is an EU Horizon project bringing together 16 leading European organisations to build a next-generation foundation model for weather and climate. Behind this mission is a diverse community of scientists, and on this International Women’s Day, we want to shine a light on some of the extraordinary women who make this project what it is. Coming from across the globe, bringing expertise in atmospheric chemistry, machine learning, probabilistic modelling, remote sensing, and operational meteorology.
1 min read • Feb 17, 2026
WeatherGenerator Meets in Oslo and Online
One year into the project, partners came together for three days of exchange, discussion and hands-on collaboration in Oslo, Norway. It was great to meet in person, connect with new partners, and strengthen existing collaborations. From 10–12 February 2026, project partners and participants met at Forskningsparken - Oslo Science Park - and online for the WeatherGenerator event hosted by Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Meteorologisk institutt. The programme combined an internal General Assembly, a public Dissemination & Stakeholder Day, and a focused Coding Workshop.
- #workshop
1 min read • Jan 22, 2026
Advancing AI Climate Models - AlgoEarth & CESOC Workshop
We would like to invite you to the AlgoEarth and CESOC Workshop “Advancing AI Climate Models” Our goal is to connect expertise across algorithm design, machine learning, and Earth system science, fostering interdisciplinary thinking around next-generation AI methods designed for emerging global observation platforms and their use in weather and climate prediction. The event will take place from Wednesday, 04 March 2026 (12:00 CET), to Thursday, 05 March 2026 (13:00 CET) at the University of Cologne, Pohligstraße 3, 50969 Cologne, Germany, in lecture hall 4.001.
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4 min read • Jan 20, 2026
Forecast Verification for AI Models - Article by Britta Seegebrecht and Sabrina Wahl
Forecast Verification for AI models Can we trust AI models? This question could be from a sci-fi movie but nowadays it becomes more and more relevant since so called artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning (ML) has made its way into a vast range of application fields from marketing to costumer services, from medical assistance to quality control – and weather forecasting is no exception. For predictions of the weather conditions this question translates roughly to: ‘How accurate and reliable is the forecast, where and under which conditions/for which situations?’ These questions are targeted by the field of forecast verification.What is forecast verification and why is it important?
3 min read • Dec 22, 2025
WeatherGenerator Highlights 2025
2025 marked the first year for the WeatherGenerator project, with major advances across all areas - from model architecture to expanded datasets and growing community engagement. Let’s have a look at some of the project’s highlights of the year.
- #Dissemination
1 min read • Dec 11, 2025
Dissemination Workshop
Join Us in Oslo – WeatherGenerator Dissemination Workshop 2026! We are excited to announce the upcoming WeatherGenerator Dissemination Workshop for everyone working with climate data, environmental modelling, and weather-related decision-making. 📍 Location: Hybrid - Online and in Oslo, Norway 📅 Date: 11 February 2026 The day event will open with a summary of the project, followed by detailed discussion with the project partners on the WeatherGenerator achievements. Invited guest speakers will highlight the relevance and usage of the WeatherGenerator and its tools / applications, and we will also have highlight presentation from related international efforts in the area of foundation modelling for weather and climate science.
2 min read • Dec 04, 2025
Explore the New WeatherGenerator Theme Videos
Explore the New WeatherGenerator Theme Videos We are excited to introduce a brand-new collection of videos that takes you behind the scenes of the WeatherGenerator project. Four Theme Videos – each dedicated to one core pillar of the initiative – along with an overall summary video are now available on our website. Each Theme Video highlights a key element of the project: Theme 1: From Raw Data to Ready-to-Use Inputs This video explores how the project brings together diverse climate and weather datasets, transforming them into a unified, scalable foundation tailored for machine-learning workflows.
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- #community
1 min read • Oct 20, 2025
Video Highlights from Our First Hackathon
Video Highlights from Our First Hackathon We are pleased to share highlights from WeatherGenerator’s first internal hackathon, held from 27–29 August 2025 in Bonn, Germany at ECMWF. Over the course of three days, around 40 researchers, developers, and application partners from across Europe came together to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and lay the foundation for one of the EU’s most ambitious AI-for-climate projects. From data foundations to real-world applications, the hackathon was not only about technical progress, but also about building connections, sharing insights, and shaping the future of climate intelligence.
3 min read • Oct 13, 2025
WeatherGenerator’s Sister Projects
WeatherGenerator’s Sister Projects WeatherGenerator is one of three projects launched in January and February 2025 under Horizon Europe to strengthen Destination Earth (DestinE), Europe’s initiative to build a high-precision, interactive digital twin of the Earth. Digital twins are computational models of real-world phenomena that can be used to simulate the past, model the present, and predict the future. Together with TerraDT and UrbanAIR, we expand the DestinE ecosystem by addressing different but complementary aspects of the Earth system.
3 min read • Oct 06, 2025
Supercomputers in the WeatherGenerator
What are Supercomputers? Supercomputers are high-performance computing systems designed to solve problems which exceed the capacity of conventional machines. Their defining feature is massive parallelism: instead of relying on a single processor, they connect tens of thousands of CPUs and GPUs which perform calculations simultaneously. This parallel architecture allows them to reach speeds measured in petaflops (10¹⁵ operations per second) or even exaflops (10¹⁸ operations per second), enabling computations that would take years on a standard computer to be completed within hours or days.
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3 min read • Sep 03, 2025
How To Get Involved
Learn how to get involved in the WeatherGenerator Project.
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- #hackathon
3 min read • Jul 31, 2025
WeatherGenerator’s First Internal Hackathon
From 27–29 August 2025, project partners of the EU-funded WeatherGenerator project gathered for the first internal hackathon at ECMWF’s facility in Bonn, Germany. This event brought together around 40 researchers, developers, and application partners from across Europe to collaborate in person and lay the groundwork for one of the EU’s most ambitious AI-for-climate projects.