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Professor Frederic Dias from University College Dublin has been awarded a second European Research Council Advance Grant, for the project entitled "HIGHWAVE" (Breaking of highly energetic waves) to develop an innovative approach to include accurate wave breaking physics into coupled sea state and ocean weather forecasting models.

The Copernicus data-centric programme is supported by the European Space Agency and the European Commission, and will provide earth observation, modelling and in situ data about our environment on an operational basis into the future.

The Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) has today announced Ireland’s first Copernicus Hackathon, aimed at promoting the Earth Observation (EO) services sector across the country. The event will take place in NUI Galway from May 10th to May 12th 2019.

ICHEC is delighted to partner with PRACE (The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) in promoting the PRACEdays19, which is currently open for registration.

Two members of the ICHEC team have led an EPA report on climate downscaling published this month. The report describes the application of numerical weather prediction (NWP) simulations to develop high-quality, long-term, climate datasets of hydro-climate variables for Ireland, covering the period 1981–2016.