This page collects all publicly available outputs of the AI Weather Quest, excluding social media posts. It provides an overview of the official website, webpages, ECMWF publications, newsletters, webinars, external news, and events where the Quest has been highlighted.

Website & Webpages

• AI Weather Quest official website

• AI Weather Quest Confluence space

• AI Weather Quest forum

• AI/ML sub-seasonal forecasts portal

• AI Weather Quest Python library

• AI Weather Quest Python Package on GitHub

Publications

ECMWF articles

• IOP Science (Machine Learning: Earth): The AI Weather Quest: an international competition for sub-seasonal forecasting with AI
• ECMWF Science Blog: AI Weather Quest: uniting international expertise to advance sub-seasonal forecasting

• ECMWF Website News:

  • Take part in the AI Weather Quest to advance sub-seasonal forecasting

  • The AI Weather Quest Testing Period is live

• DestinE Webpage: AI Weather Quest page

External articles

• NOAA AI initiative: noaa.gov/ai

• CESOC News: Feature

• European AI Alliance Blog: ECMWF AI Weather Quest – Global competition

• Hugging Face: Discussion thread

• Wildlabs.net: Article

• ESIWACE: Pre-competition webinar mention

• CMA (China Meteorological Administration): News article

• India Today: Could AI solve the weather prediction dilemma?

• Nvidia Developer Blog: Forecasting the weather beyond two weeks using Earth-2

External newsletters

• ECMWF Newsletter: AI Weather Quest: Advancing sub-seasonal forecasting with AI/ML

• WIPPS Newsletter (WMO):

  • February 2025 feature

  • July 2025 feature

• WWRP Newsletter:

  • February 2025 feature

  • May 2025 feature

• Climate Change AI Newsletter: April 2025 issue

• M²LInES Newsletter: March 2025 issue

• LEAP (Columbia University) Newsletter: Newsletter feature

• Climate AI Nordics Newsletter: April 2025 issue

Webinars (recordings available)

Recordings are available on the AI Weather Quest YouTube playlist.

• Quest Launch Webinar – March 2025

  • Attendance: ~200 participants

  • Morning session

  • Afternoon session

• Testing Period Launch Webinar – May 2025

  • Attendance: ~90 participants

  • Main session

  • Step-by-step guide to using the Python package

• Pre-Competition Period Launch Webinar – August 2025

  • Attendance: ~70 participants

  • Morning session

  • Afternoon session

Events where the AI Weather Quest was spotlighted

The Quest has been featured at a wide range of scientific conferences, workshops, and meetings. The list below highlights the main events, noting that it has also been presented at a number of other occasions.

2024

• AI for Weather and Climate: How Machine Learning Boosts Forecasts – 13 Nov 2024, Vienna
  Event link
  Featured in presentation.

• AGU 2024 – 9–13 Dec 2024, Washington D.C.
  Event link
  Featured in presentation.

2025

• AMS 2025 (American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting) – 12–16 Jan 2025, New Orleans
  Event link
  Featured in presentation.

• ECMWF Annual Seminar 2025 – 7–11 Apr 2025, Bonn
  Event link
  Poster presentation.

• EGU 2025 – 27 Apr–2 May 2025, Vienna
  Event link
  Featured in presentation.

• CESOC ML Working Group – 9 May 2025, Cologne
  Event link
  Poster presentation.

• Living Planet Symposium (LPS 2025) – 23–27 Jun 2025, Vienna
  Poster presentation & presence at ECMWF booth.

• CESOC Workshop on Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling – 25–27 Aug 2025, Cologne
  Event link
  Featured in presentation and poster.

• WMO AI Conference: AI for Weather Prediction, Advances, Challenges & Future Outlook – 9–11 Sep 2025, Geneva
  Event link
  Featured in presentation.

• Using ECMWF’s Forecasts (UEF 2025) – 15–18 Sep 2025, Bologna
  Event link
  Featured in presentation and poster.