Collaborative hacking: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology hosts the largest hackathon for Earth system modeling

Hackathons as a creative working method are collaborative exploration, analysis and development activities - all different forms of "hacking". The participating scientists bring a wide variety of questions from their projects. They are looking forward to exploring the different components of the Earth system (atmosphere, land, ocean) this week using a range of the latest global coupled simulations at the kilometer scale. These are capable, for example, of resolving the dynamics of major atmospheric disturbances, from a shower of high-reaching cumulus clouds to a tropical storm, or eddies of a few kilometers in the ocean.

Bjorn Stevens, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and Head of the Climate Physics Department will welcome the participants and Daniela Jacob, Director of the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) will give a keynote on the EVE project as an introduction to the week. From there, the fingers will do the talking.