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17 articles · Latest April 22, 2025

Bart Schilperoort·Apr 22, 2025

Keeping your scientific data files small

Keeping your scientific data files small An RSE’s guide to NetCDF compression If you’ve ever watched a crawling progress bar while transferring research data, or received a dreaded...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 10, 2024

Amsterdam as seen by a weather model

Visualizing local climate zones in 3D with the Cityblocks package What sets a weather model apart from a video game? While video games prioritize stunning visuals over strict reali...

Peter Kalverla·Jun 21, 2024

Henry, the City Tweaker

Imagining the future of urban planning 5 > This blogpost is our (winning 🎉) submission to Destination Earth’s challenge to envision the future use of their platform. The story is...

Peter Kalverla·Nov 21, 2023

Cracking the (moisture) tracking code

An exclusive interview with our project partners This post is part of a series on our 2021 Small Scale Initiative Call in Software Performance Optimization. This week’s highlight:...

Peter Kalverla·Oct 5, 2023

Analysis-ready climate data with ESMValCore

The “Easy IPCC” blog done differently Co-authored by Bouwe Andela In a recent blog post, Tom Nicholas presented a nice walkthrough of reproducing a famous IPCC figure with xarray-d...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 11, 2023

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science This story was coauthored by Peter Kalverla and Bouwe Andela Like an artisan chef can improvise a delicious meal, so too can a scienti...

Peter Kalverla·Aug 21, 2023

Lilio — a calendar package for machine learning with time series data

Designed with the S2S community, available for everyone These are just some of the questions that scientists in the field of sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weather and climate pred...

Stef Smeets·Jun 20, 2023

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time 53 Written by Stef Smeets and Sander van Rijn. Photo by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden on UnsplashAsk any environmentalist...

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Gijs van den Oord·Dec 14, 2021

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

In PRIMAVERA, a Horizon 2020 project, we focused upon the I/O machinery in a big European climate model EC-Earth. In particular, we were asked to come up with a solution to make th...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 21, 2021

Pandemic-proof: shaping the future of scientific exchange

The 2021 (virtual) meeting of the European Meteorological Society started off with the collaborative Future Science Cafe. Inspired by the rapid developments in remote collaboration...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 20, 2021

Plotting gridded data on a web map: Python and/or Javascript?

But what if you want to plot your own data? While there are many resources on how to use existing tile or web-map services, I struggled to find out how to make my own. Eventually,...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 17, 2021

Visual Storytelling for data science

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 7, 2021 When conducting research, the data collected can in itself be exciting and meaningful, but when it is presented as spreadsheets or bullet points...

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Peter Kalverla·Mar 25, 2020

6 months of eScience: 6 lessons worth sharing

On the road towards FAIR and reproducible science. Ever find yourself hesitating to send that important email, cursor hovering over the send button? For me, it’s grown into a curio...

Ronald van Haren·Feb 5, 2019

fairifying ewatercycle

Towards reproducible science and better flooding forecasts Growing populations, economies, industries and urbanization are increasing the demand for water, while extreme weather sp...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 11, 2018

the end of theory for earth sciences

“The end of theory.” This is the title of an article in Wired Magazine 10 years ago. No theory needed, the data deluge allows us to extract any knowledge by exploring data. This ne...

Ronald van Haren·Aug 23, 2017

predicting temperatures in your street

The next big thing in weather forecasting Example of a high resolution weather forecast at 500m (right) and 100m (left) resolution eScience Research Engineers at the Netherlands eS...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 21, 2017

what is the impact of visualization on science

Scientific visualization impacts all research disciplines. Understanding our past, dealing with the challenges of climate change, discovering dark matter, and analyzing human behav...