2024 Climate Services Code Sprint

In response to the European Digital Transformation Act, the existing European digital infrastructures are being enhanced and optimised to be harnessed for sustainable development. In particular, climate action can be underpinned by applications that provide scientific processing methods for enabling information generation from raw data to useful information.

This is a hybrid event. The in-person portion will take place at The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Bonn, Germany. Online participation will take place over Slack. Participation is free for everyone. OGC Members and non-Members alike are encouraged to attend.

See the agenda below. Options for nearby hotels can be found below the agenda.

Registration for in-person attendance closes September 15.

• Enhancing Climate Resilience Application packages
  The EU H2020 CLINT Project, of which OGC was a partner, developed Climate Resilience Application Packages, as well as related applications around the birdhouse collection of OGC WPS focussing on Climate data processing services. Enhancement will be e.g. transition from OGC WPS to OGC API – Processes or options to include Common Workflow Language (CWL). Interoperability to Zoo-Project, the GEO-LDN toolbox and their applications on desertification and land slides risk projection could be explored. 
• Deployment into digital infrastructures
  The coding sprint will also focus on interoperability of the climate resilience application packages into the EU digital infrastructures like Climate Data Store of Copernicus Climate Change (C3S), Copernicus Land Monitoring (CLMS), Copernicus Emergency Management (CEMS) or WekEO, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), or individual Climate Service Information Systems. Interoperability to the UNCCD reporting portal PRAIS4 can be explored.
• Enhancing Documentation and training material
  Streamlining and fine tuning the existing material for easier access to open knowledge around the usage of the Climate Resilience Application Packages is going to be the third focus area to be enhanced and decided within the coding sprint. Beside online documentation, a good set of Jupyter Notebooks and DEMO portals as persistent demonstrators should be in place, ready to explore.

Preliminary Agenda

	Monday 07.Oct	Tuesday 08.Oct	Wednesday 09.Oct
Morning	Welcome and introduction  FAIR Climate Services Digital Infrastructures	CODING	CODING
	CLINT Application Packages Packages focussing on droughts, floods, cyclones, landslides, etc.	CODING	CODING
Lunch Break
Afternoon	Interoperability with Copernicus Climate and Atmosphere Data Store (CADS) / Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)  WekEO  European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Others	CODING	Demo of implemented packages
	OGC Standards  Web Processing Service (WPS) OGC API – Processes EO Application Packages Common Workflow Language (CWL) OGC API – Maps	CODING	Wrap up, steps forward
Dinner

Registration for in-person attendance closes September 15.

Hotel options

The following hotels in the center of Bonn are near the central railway station and walking distance from the main square. The ECMWF office can be reached by metro line 66 from the underground station, direction Ramersdorf. Exit at Robert-Schuman-Platz.

• Hotels Bonn Motel One | cheap budget design hotel Bonn (motel-one.com)
• IntercityHotel Bonn (online-reservations.com)
• Hotel Kurfürstenhof Bonn (kurfuerstenhof-bonn.de)

For visitors wishing to stay walking distance from the ECMWF office, the closest hotels are:

• Maritim Hotel Bonn (online-reservations.com)
• Das Hotel Gustav Stresemann Institut (gsi-bonn.de). Please note that only meeting rooms have air conditioning, not bedrooms. Therefore, please consider this detail before booking bedrooms in summer.

A luxury half-way alternative is the Bonn Marriott Hotel, which is located nearby the UN Campus and at walking distance from the well-served metro stop Heussallee/Museumsmeile:

• Bonn Marriott Hotel

Registration for in-person attendance closes September 15.