Solving the two-language problem, Julia blurs the line between users and developers. Julia software in Earth and climate science often spans multiple aspects including models and their development, preparing and running simulations, data post-processing, analysis and visualisation. Users can easily extend packages, increasing the number of contributors, while developers enhance the user interface and experience within a unified language framework. At the same time, developers start to support other software packages and tools directly given the single language framework, further growing the ecosystem.
Traditionally, Earth and climate science relied on Fortran for performance-critical software and, more recently, on Python for data analysis and visualisation. Unfortunately, this puts a divide between developers and users, at least partially counteracting the gained productivity through Python. Julia as an emerging language framework has allowed this community to rethink how to build software with and for users, of which we want to highlight efforts from both the developer but especially the user perspective. Overall we want to accelerate research on Earth and climate science, which not just depends on high-performance computing but particularly on the user interface being accessible, intuitive, interactive and extensible.
We invite both developers and users, as well as individuals who bridge these roles, to discuss software projects and their impact on user empowerment. We also welcome talks by developer-user pairs highlighting the co-benefits from a combined perspective. For this minisymposium, we accept abstracts on every field in and adjacent to Earth and climate sciences, including but not limited to
Atmospheric sciences, including atmospheric dynamics, physics, chemistry and climatology
Oceanography including sea ice and ocean biogeochemistry
Earth science including land surface processes, hydrology and glaciology
Land vegetation and interactions of ecosystems with the climate
Geodynamics, seismology, geodesy and geochemistry
Human and physical geography
Climate policy and economics including integrated assessment models
Talks can focus on software that solves equations, analyses or visualises data, processes measurements and especially software with any combination of the above. Talks on planetary sciences are equally welcome especially when they parallel the issues and opportunities to the fields mentioned.
Chairs
Skylar Gering (Caltech)
Francesco Martinuzzi (Leipzig)
Milan Klöwer (MIT)
