2023-06-26 US-EU workshop on AI/DT for Earth Systems collaborations

Session 2a – Data access, usage and exchange (90 min)

Chair: Rob Redmon (NOAA)

Rapporteur: Stephan Siemen (EC)

Lightning Talks (5 min, 2-3 slides):

• Copernicus Programme (Michael Rixen, EC)
• Data Lake concept in Destination Earth (Lothar Wolf, EUMETSAT)
• AI-ready Data Standard Development (NOAA Stacie Koslovsky)
• NOAA Learning Journeys for Trustworthy AI Training (Chris Slocum)

Discussion Topics:

• Review of existing programs (Copernicus) and standard activity (e.g. OGC) 
• Data access policies & impact of (upcoming) AI regulations
• Data availability, and usability for AI/DT, AI/Analysis-ready data (e.g. Data Lake concept), Training needs

Session 2b – Compute resources for AI/DT
(90 min)

Chair: Charalampos (Babis) Tsitlakidis (EC)

Rapporteur: Douglas Rao (NOAA)

Lightning Talks (5 min, 2-3 slides):

• EuroHPC  (Javier CORDOVA MOREY, Policy Officer, HPC and Quantum Technology, DG CNECT, EC)
• Challenges for provisioning large compute resources for DTs (Kimmo Koski (Managing Director of CSC - the Finnish IT Center for Science)
• DT for Weather and Climate modeling: Computational strategies (V. “Ram” Ramaswamy, NOAA GFDL) 
• NAIRR (NOAA, Frank Indiviglio)

Discussion Topics:

• Challenges in provisioning of large compute resources (e.g. EuroHPC, cloud)
• Challenges and opportunities regarding the applications of AI for DT (e.g. leveraging large community benchmark models, data centric AI) large AI models/DT
• Leading practices to ensure equitable access to computing resources for AI/DT

Session 5a – Collaboration on AI/DT frameworks and software tools (75 min)

Chair: Douglas Rao (NOAA)

Rapporteur: Stephan Siemen (EC)

Lightning Talks (5 min, 3 max):

• AI in weather and climate modelling (Florian Pappenberger, Director of the Forecast Department at ECMWF)
• NOAA Interoperability Framework talk (Ryan Berkheimer, Physical Scientist for NOAA, Archive Architect for NCEI and NESDIS)

Discussion Topics:

• How to benefit from a very active community providing AI packages/software?
• Gap analysis on where more work is required and how in this area could be collaborated (e.g. DestinE DTE)
• Challenges in estimating and tracking Uncertainty Quantification?

Session 5b – Ensuring impact for the public good (75 min)

Chair: Tobias Wiesenthal (EC)

Rapporteur: Rob Redmon (NOAA)

Lightning Talks  (5 min, 3 max):

• Tech for good from the EU perspective (Olivier Bringer, EC)
• Use cases for DT development (Joern Hoffmann, ECMWF)
• NOAA One Health - Ensuring Environmental Data for Social Good (Juli Trtanj, NOAA One Health Lead & NIHHIS Director)

Discussion Topics:

• Use case co-design/development recommendations to ensure stakeholder integration?
• Building trust and allow for transparency in AI/DT communication of information quality
• Challenges to integrate results in existing mechanisms/processes?