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  • Welcome & About
    • About CIRA
      • Jobs
      • Letter from Christian Kummerow:
      • Map & Directions
      • Organizational Structure
      • Reports
      • Room Schedules
      • Staff Directory
      • Strategic Plan
      • Vision & Mission Statement
    • Themes
      • Climate and Weather Processes
      • Competitive Projects
      • Data Assimilation
      • Data Distributions
      • Education and Outreach
      • Modeling Systems Research
      • NOAA Projects
      • Satellite Algorithm Development, Training and Education
      • Societal and Economic Impact Studies
    • Collaborative Groups
      • Colorado Climate Center
      • National Park Service
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch
  • Teams
    • Colorado Teams:
      • NOAA/Earth System Research Lab (ESRL) – Boulder, CO
      • Air Quality – Fort Collins, CO
      • Atmospheric Science (ATS) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Carbon – Fort Collins, CO
      • CIRA Software Engineering Group (CSEG) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Assimilation (DA) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Data Processing Centers (DPC) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Independent – Fort Collins, CO
      • MetSat – Fort Collins, CO
      • Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) – Fort Collins, CO
      • Training – Fort Collins, CO
      • Tropical Cyclone – Fort Collins, CO
    • Other Location Teams:
      • National Hurricane Center – Miami, FL
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Ebert-Uphoff, Imme

Imme Ebert-Uphoff

Ebert-Uphoff, Imme

Job Title:
Machine Learning Lead
CIRA Teams:
  • CIRA Software Engineering Group (CSEG)
  • Independent

Email Address:
iebert@colostate.edu
Office Location:
ACRC 207
About Me:

I have three highly connected roles here at Colorado State University:

  1.  Machine learning lead at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA).
    I joined CIRA in July 2019 to support its use of machine learning (ML) techniques.
  2.  CSU lead for the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES).
    AI2ES is a 5-year $20M AI institute funded by the NSF, led by Amy McGovern at OU. It just got funded in Fall 2020.  CSU is one of the primary partners of the institute.
  3.  Research Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
    I joined ECE in 2011.

Since 2019 I spend most of my time working at CIRA.

Key activities include:

  • Working directly on CIRA projects,
  • Providing support for CIRA research scientists working with ML,
  • Teaching customized ML lessons (Ex.: CIRA Short Course on ML for Weather and Climate)
  • Coordinating ML working groups at CIRA (ML core) and at NOAA (LEAP-RT).

Key applications include:

  • Using ML to make the most out of satellite imagery, especially for applications related to tropical cyclones, and for identifying convection;
  • Generating synthetic imagery (e.g., MRMS or MW) from GOES imagery;
  • Using ML to speed up radiative transfer in numerical weather prediction models (Ryan Lagerquist‘s project).

The work related to the AI institute ties directly into many of these applications, with emphasis on tropical cyclones.

Key interests and to learn about our approaches:

  • Trustworthy AI for weather and climate – emphasis on Explainable AI and Physics-guided ML.
    Samples:

    • Evaluation, Tuning and Interpretation of Neural Networks for Working with Images in Meteorological Applications (2020)
    • ECMWF presentation (30min video) (2020)
    • Development and Interpretation of a Neural Network-Based Synthetic Radar Reflectivity Estimator Using GOES-R Satellite Observations (to be added soon)
    • Physically Interpretable Neural Networks for the Geosciences: Applications to Earth System Variability (2020)
    • Indicator Patterns of Forced Change Learned by an Artificial Neural Network (2020)
    • Thoughtfully Using Artificial Intelligence in Earth Science (2019)
    • Intelligent Systems for Geosciences: An Essential Research Agenda (2018)
    • Machine Learning for the Geosciences: Challenges and Opportunities (2018)
    • Three Steps to Successful Collaboration with Data Scientists (2017)
  • Causal discovery for weather and climate
    Samples:

    • A Causality-Based View of the Interaction between Synoptic- and Planetary-Scale Atmospheric Disturbances (2020)
    • Tropospheric and Stratospheric Causal Pathways Between the MJO and NAO (2019)
    • Causal discovery in the geosciences—Using synthetic data to learn how to interpret results (2017)
    • A new type of climate network based on probabilistic graphical models: Results of boreal winter versus summer (2012)
    • Causal Discovery for Climate Research Using Graphical Models (2012)
  • Education at the intersection of ML and weather/climate
    Samples:

    • Bridging sustainability science, earth science, and data science through interdisciplinary education (2020)
    • CIRA Short Course on Machine Learning for Weather and Climate.

Complete list of PUBLICATIONS.

How to reach me:

  • Send email to iebert@colostate.edu
  • My office (during non-COVID times) is at CSU’s Foothills campus: ACRC 207.

Past Work

Publications

List of publications:  http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~iebert/publications.html

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