The NSF NCAR node of the global Digital Earths hackathon, held from Monday, May 12 to Friday, May 16, addressed challenges from an important new development in the field: kilometer-scale climate models.

The Digital Earths Hackathon was a global event organized by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), bringing together over 650 in-person participants across 10 sites worldwide. NSF NCAR hosted one node with about 50 participants at its Foothills Lab in Boulder, Colorado. The hackathon aimed to develop best practices for analyzing complex and vast datasets from kilometer-scale, or storm-resolving scale, climate models. 

Said NSF NCAR’s John Clyne, one of the event’s primary organizers: "At the end of the first half-day, every single group had produced a number of plots that were meaningful. I was really shocked that things worked as well as they did."

To learn more about the hackathon, read the full CISL news article.