More precisely, the course will cover:

• Introduction to earth science fundamentals and modelling;
• Basic usage of an HPC environment: shell, compilers, libraries, file systems, queuing system and parallel computing;
• Build and configure targeted earth science applications with the NMMB/MONARCH chemical transport model and with the EC-EARTH climate model;
• Execute and monitor numerical experiments using a workflow manager;
• Analyse and visualise model outputs with a wide set of tools.

Type of methodology: Combination of lecture and hands-on

Participants receive the certificate of attendance: Yes

Paid training activity for participants: No, it's free of charge

Participants prerequisite knowledge: At least University degree in progress on Earth Sciences, Computer Sciences or related area.

Basic knowledge of UNIX

Knowledge of C, FORTRAN, MPI or openMP is recommended

Knowledge of Earth Sciences data formats is recommended (grib, netcdf, hdf,…)

Knowledge of R and python