Bryan Lawrence

UK Lustre Users Group

2023-12-06T00:00:00-06:00

In this keynote talk I introduced the work we have been doing on active storage (also known as computational storage) as part of the ExcaliData projects within Excalibur (the UK exascale software readiness programme).

Using Deep Learning to find cyclones in model output

2023-07-09T00:00:00-05:00

Galea, D., Kunkel, J., & Lawrence, B. N. (2023). TCDetect: A New Method of Detecting the Presence of Tropical Cyclones Using Deep Learning. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, 2(3), e220045. https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-22-0045.1

NCAS@Reading Weekly Seminar

2023-06-23T00:00:00-05:00

In this seminar I laid out the background to the new ENES infrastructure strategy, including not only the computing context but a good part of the science motivation for a spectrum of climate modelling activities. Below I sketch out a summary of a few of the points I made.

Draft ENES Infrastructure Strategy Open for Comment

2023-06-20T00:00:00-05:00

One of the many reasons I have been so quiet of late is that I have been bevering away on a new ENES¹ infrastructure strategy for climate modelling. We now have a draft out for public feedback, so please do comment!

ENES is the European Network for Earth System modelling - main website is at https://portal.enes.org. (Footnote added, 21/06/23). ↩

Dual Tariffs for EVs Don’t Play Nicely with Heatpumps

2023-06-18T00:00:00-05:00

So we have an EV (a “2021 Vauxhall corsa e”, since you asked). We had to get one in a hurry as our 2008 Seat Ibiza ecomotive died very suddenly and unexpectedly. We had always planned to replace with an EV, but imagined that would be in a year or two. As we live in place with no public transport, and my wife and I both have o(20) mile commutes (in diffiferent directions), we had to buy a replacement in a hurry - without doing much due diligence, either around car or charging options.

UKNCSP Strategic Workshop on High Resolution Climate Modelling

2023-06-16T00:00:00-05:00

This was an inaugural meeting of the UK high resolution climate modelling community under the auspices of the new UK National Climate Science Partnership.

Baljifest

2023-05-15T00:00:00-05:00

Baljifest was a celebration of the contributions of Balaji to climate modelling at GFDL and Princeton. There was a day of presentations, followed by a panel on the future of climate modelling. Saravanan and I kicked off the panel with a presentation each.

UK Turbulence Consortium, 2023 Annual Meeting

2023-03-27T00:00:00-05:00

An invited talk to the UK turbulence consortium which aimed to describe some of the activities the climate science commmunity has undertaken, and is undertaking, to deal with the data deluge.

Two new preprints

2021-10-05T00:00:00-05:00

I’ve just added links to two preprints to my publications page. Quite different topics. (There are also a lot of recent talks online as well, I’ve had a busy month!)

ESiWACE2 2021 General Assembly

2021-09-27T00:00:00-05:00

An update on progress in the ESiWACE2 fourth work package, WP4, data (systems) at scale.