Milan Klöwer

Milan Klöwer

Climate scientist at MIT, PhD from Oxford, previously: GEOMAR Kiel, UNIS Svalbard, IUEM Brest.

Climate computing, information theory, predictability, climate change, aviation.

#JuliaLang open-source developer, vegan, low CO₂, bicycles and co-op living, no borders, free education.

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Scientific publications

Unfortunately, not all publications are open access. If you want to have a copy, please don’t pay for it, just drop me an email and I’ll send it to you personally. It’s completely legal, and I am very happy to do this.

2023Klöwer, M, PV Coveney, EA Paxton and TN Palmer. Periodic orbits in chaotic systems simulated at low precision, in review. Preprint: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2223046/v1
2023Klöwer, M, P Edouard, AM Niess, S Racinais, Y Pitsiladis, F Pappenberger and K Hollander. Forecasting feels-like temperatures to reduce heat illnesses during sport events, British Journal of Sports Medicine, 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106413.
2022Epp SM, H Jung, V Borghesani, M Klöwer, ME Hoeppli, M Misiura, E Thompson, NW Duncan, AE Urai, M Veldsman, S Sadaghiani and C Rae. How can we reduce the climate costs of OHBM? A vision for a more sustainable meeting, Aperture Neuro, accepted. Preprint: 10.31219/osf.io/6zys
2022Giordano M, M Klöwer and V Churavy. Productivity meets Performance: Julia on A64FX, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), IEEE, 10.1109/CLUSTER51413.2022.00072
2022Klöwer M, S Hatfield, M Croci, PD Düben and TN Palmer. Fluid simulations accelerated with 16 bits: Approaching 4x speedup on A64FX by squeezing ShallowWaters.jl into Float16, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, 10.1029/2021MS002684
2022Paxton EA, M Chantry, M Klöwer, L Saffin, TN Palmer. Climate Modelling in Low-Precision: Effects of both Deterministic & Stochastic Rounding, Journal of Climate, 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0343.1
2021Klöwer M, M Razinger, JJ Dominguez, PD Düben and TN Palmer. Compressing atmospheric data into its real information content, Nature Computational Science, 1, 713-724, 10.1038/s43588-021-00156-2
2021Klöwer M, MR Allen, DS Lee, SR Proud, L Gallagher and A Skowron. Quantifying aviation’s contribution to global warming, Environmental Research Letters, 16 (2021) 104027, 10.1088/1748-9326/ac286e
2021Hollander K, M Klöwer, A Richardson, L Navarro, S Racinais, V Scheer, A Murray, P Branco, T Timpka, A Junge and P Edouard. Apparent temperature and heat-related illnesses during international athletic championships: A prospective cohort study, Scandinavian Journal for Medicine and Science in Sports, 31 (11), 2092-2102, 10.1111/sms.14029
2020Klöwer M, PD Düben and TN Palmer. Number formats, error mitigation and scope for 16-bit arithmetics in weather and climate modelling analyzed with a shallow water model, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002246. 10.1029/2020MS002246
2020Klöwer M, D Hopkins, M Allen and J Higham. An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19, Nature, 583, 356-359, 10.1038/d41586-020-02057-2
2019Klöwer M, PD Düben and TN Palmer. Posits as an alternative to floats for weather and climate models, In Conference for Next Generation Arithmetic 2019 (CoNGA’19), ACM, 10.1145/3316279.3316281
2018Klöwer M, MF Jansen, M Claus, RJ Greatbatch and S Thomsen. Energy budget-based backscatter in a shallow water model of a double gyre basin, Ocean Modelling, 132, 10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.09.006
2014Klöwer M, M Latif, H Ding, RJ Greatbatch and W Park. Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the prediction of North Atlantic sea surface temperature, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 406, 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.001
2013Klöwer M, T Jung, G König-Langlo and T Semmler. Aspects of weather parameters at Neumayer station, Antarctica, and their representation in reanalysis and climate model data, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 22 (6), 10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0505

Theses

2021PhD thesis. Low-precision climate computing: Preserving information despite fewer bits (PhD thesis), University of Oxford, UK, 177p.
2017Master thesis. Energy budget-based backscatter in a non-linear shallow water model driven by double gyre wind forcing, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 92 pp.
2013Bachelor thesis. Perspectives for predicting North Atlantic decadal sea surface temperature variability, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 53 pp.

Reports

2020Klöwer, M. Towards weather and climate models in 16-bit arithmetic (Confirmation of status), University of Oxford. [pdf here]
2019Klöwer, M. Towards 16bit weather and climate models: Posit numbers as an alternative to floating-point numbers (Transfer of status), University of Oxford. [pdf here]
2016Klöwer, M and E Köhn. Solving the steady Navier-Stokes equations with Finite Element Methods. [pdf here]
2016C Sarchosidis and M Klöwer. The influence of low-level wind shear on the surface turbulence kinetic energy production in Adventdalen, Svalbard, (Final report for AGF-350/850), University Centre in Svalbard, 14pp. [pdf here]
2014Klöwer, M. Implementing level set methods into a 2D Boussinesq model. [pdf here]

Essays

2017Klöwer, M. Time and length scales of physical processes in the global oceans, PhD application essay. [pdf here]
2017Klöwer, M. Approximate computing in climate simulations, PhD application proposal. [pdf here]