Digital twins have been generating excitement and are proving their value in many fields with the ability to interact with a system (or system of systems) to visualize, analyze and monitor what is happening now (nowcasting), what next (forecasting), and what if (scenario exploration). For example, digital twins can be used for space weather to explore current impact on communications, forecasted satellite drag at given altitudes, or for comparing current situations to historically observed maximums. This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to discuss digital twin applications and value to atmospheric modeling as well as a hands-on lab to run their own digital twin simulations. The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the concept of digital twins and to provide hands-on experience using an atmospheric digital twin on elastic cloud resources. The use of cloud high performance computing (HPC) is steadily growing within the weather enterprise; hands-on usage of cloud resources is a valuable context for weather practitioners. The scripts and code used in this workshop will remain open and available to the community so it can be used as a template for future work. Participants will have streamlined access to personal cloud clusters via Parallel Works ACTIVATE.

105th AMS Annual Meeting
New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
January 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Central Time (Hybrid)

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Course Description:

This course addresses the new concept of digital twins and how it is different from traditional forecasting. Furthermore, this course will also work to improve community awareness of cloud computing concepts, costs, and benefits. Participants will explore these knowledge gaps via hands-on experience running digital twin experiments on cloud resources.

Participants will:

• Be introduced to a wide range of skills through this workshop including distinguishing between the capabilities of digital twins and traditional forecast models; cloud computing; deploying complex software; and running intermediate scale simulations in a cloud environment.
  
  

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  If you have questions regarding the course, please contact Stefan Gary.

  Instructors:

  

  Stefan Gary

  Parallel Works Inc.

  

  Jeff Steward

  Orion Space Solutions