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Important notice regarding RDA ERA5 Reanalysis GRIB files

February 26, 2025

The Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of CISL is in the process of phasing out whole file download, subsetting, and campaign storage access to RDA ERA5 Reanalysis in GRIB format (d633000). If possible, we encourage users to transition to the NetCDF files produced by DECS for the RDA. For more details, including the NetCDF data inventory, please visit the ERA5 Reanalysis dataset websi...

Apply by March 31 for a one-week course in deep learning and AI at Berkeley Lab

February 21, 2025

Take a deep dive into deep learning! Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) will host a summer school, Deep Learning for Science School, from Monday, June 23 to Friday, June 27. The course is a five-day immersive program bringing together researchers and engineers to explore the latest advances in deep learning and generative AI. Apply for the event through Monday, March 31. Applicatio...

Register now for a deep learning training opportunity next week!

February 21, 2025

NERSC and NVIDIA will be offering a hybrid Deep Learning at Scale Training from Monday, March 3 to Tuesday, March 4. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a national lab with similar HPC hardware to NSF NCAR’s Derecho. This training will help users explore distributed training for deep learning models on high-performance computing systems (specifically Perlmutter)....

Apply by March 15 to the LEAP summer research programs for undergrads and grads

February 21, 2025

Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP) is an NSF Science Technology Center launched in 2021. Applications are now open for its two 10-week summer research programs for undergrads and grads, taking place from Tuesday, May 27 to Friday, August 1, with five research projects based in New York or Boulder. The application deadline for both is Saturday, March 15, 2025, a...

SEA Panel on Language Interoperability on February 26

February 20, 2025

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly will hold a panel of lightning talks followed by a discussion on language interoperability at 3 PM MT on Wednesday February 26, 2025. The discussion can include more traditional Fortran-C/C++ interoperability, but we're especially interested in interoperability of compiled codes with interpreted languages such as Python and Julia. For example, the Earth S...

Want to learn more about NSF NCAR? “101” manual now available

February 20, 2025

How well do you know NSF NCAR and UCAR? Are you fully aware of what all the different labs, programs, research, and opportunities have to offer? Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned expert, download this year’s updated “101” manual to learn more. This information-packed booklet briefly reviews the organization’s history, and describes the focus of each lab and program. To provide sugges...