14 September 2026

Photo: ESMO

Last week, some of the Climate Modelling group travelled to Reading (UK) to attend the Third International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2S2D): Advancing climate predictions from weeks to decades to benefit society.

Plenaries:

• Johanna Baehr: Underestimated Extended Seasonal Hindcast Skill in Sparsely Observed Periods Revealed Through Hybrid Machine-Learning Initialization
• Marlene Klockmann: Local and large-scale atmospheric response to Gulf Stream SST variability with a locally refined, observation-informed ocean grid

Talks:

• Felix Meyer: Machine Learning for Decadal Ocean Prediction - Exploring the Feasibility of Capturing Climate Memory in the Upper Ocean
• Sebastian Brune: Exploring decadal predictability with the global coupled climate model ICON XPP

Posters:

• Meredith Avison: Improving Seasonal Prediction Skill of Heat Extremes in the Central United States through Ensemble Subsampling
• Anna Miesner: Improving Seasonal Predictions of North Sea Storm Surges
• Holger Pohlmann: Assimilation of SST observations in ICON XPP
• Sarah Henze: A seamless co-creative approach to decadal prediction: the Coming Decade Project