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Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for weather forecasting and offers considerable potential for climate projections. Nicolas Gruber and Andreas Prein explain why traditional simulations using numerical models remain indispensable.   

As part of the Open Government Data (OGD) initiative, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is making meteorological and climatological data available to all interested parties free of charge from May 2025.

C2SM member Oliver Fuhrer has been appointed by the ETH board as Titular professor at D-​USYS. Oliver is currently a lecturer at ETH Zurich and head of the Department of Numerical Forecasting at the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss) and has collaborated with ETH in various roles over many years.

Sonia Seneviratne and David Bresch, both professors at the Departement for Environmental Systems Sciences, have contributed to a thought-provoking installation just by the entrance at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Together with Lorenzo Pierini, a postdoctoral researcher, they calculated what the air temperature would be in the future if we didn't have air conditioning mitigation.

The new web-based tool Zonda for generating external parameter data for the weather and climate model ICON is now officially available. Zonda simplifies a previously complex process and opens the door for more researchers to work with ICON.