{"id":11232,"date":"2025-04-03T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/?page_id=11232"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:20:25","slug":"webinar-contrails-in-the-climate-system-enhancing-nwp-through-cloud-observation-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/webinar-contrails-in-the-climate-system-enhancing-nwp-through-cloud-observation-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"[Webinar] CONTRAILS in the climate system"},"content":{"rendered":"
Together with partners including the German Weather Service (DWD), Thales cortAIx, and LATMOS, Reuniwatt has hosted two webinars exploring the outcomes of the CONTRAILS project. This series highlights how advanced observation systems and artificial intelligence are transforming the detection, analysis, and prediction of contrails and their impact on climate.
The first session focuses on enhancing numerical weather prediction (NWP) through improved cloud observation and AI-driven data assimilation. The second session broadens the perspective, presenting the overall scientific insights of the CONTRAILS project and its role within the wider European research landscape on aviation-induced cloudiness.<\/p>\n
Below, you can watch both webinars according to your area of interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
This webinar presents contrails observation using all-sky imagers by Reuniwatt, as well as AI tools that have been developed to detect contrails in camera and satellite images, enabling the identification of contrail clusters. These clusters can be used to evaluate the representation of ice-supersaturated regions in the NWP model. Our speakers are happy to present the remarkable progress the CONTRAILS project has achieved in the identification, representation, and data assimilation of contrails and high cirrus clouds.<\/p>\n
Moderator: Teodora Petrisor, <\/span>Senior Research Engineer AI <\/span>@Thales<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Speakers:
\n<\/span>Prof. Roland Potthast, Head of NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) @DWD<\/span>
\n<\/span>Stefanie Hollborn, Head of Observation Modelling and Verification NWP @DWD<\/span><\/span>
\nSarah Vadillo-Quesada, Business Developer @Reuniwatt<\/span>
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