Projects

Projects and Leadership Experience

• Co-lead of the World Climate Research Programme’s Fresh Eyes on CMIP Data Analysis work group (2023 – present)
  I have been selected as a co-lead of a global team of early career researchers aiming to advance data analysis tools for the next phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Within this work group we have formulated multiple projects outlined below.

  • Project: Compiling existing CMIP/climate data analysis tools and tutorials
    • Description: The analysis of extensive CMIP datasets can be greatly facilitated by using a range of tools and tutorials created by the global climate community and gathered in a single, centralized collection. We therefore first strive to expand the list of Tools for using climate data including various data access platforms, programming languages and useful packages, command line operators, evaluation and benchmarking tools as well as other data analysis and visualization tools. We furthermore plan to create a collection of existing Tutorials on a wider range of climate science topics in various formats such as recorded workshops, video lectures, e-books. Please reach out if you have any suggestions for useful tools and tutorials that should be included in these repos!
    • Upcoming event: We are organizing a webinar about CMIP / climate data analysis tools to be held in summer or early autumn. The interactive workshop will consist of both theoretical introduction and practical session with hands-on examples on how to use various climate data analysis tools at a beginner, intermediate and advanced level. More information coming soon!
  • Project: Aggregating CMIP data analysis tools developed by Fresh Eyes on CMIP members in a common Github repository
    • Description: Analysis of CMIP datasets in the upcoming CMIP7 and subsequent CMIP phases can be made easier if useful data analysis codes that have recently been developed by scientists around the globe to analyze CMIP6/CMIP5 data are collected and organized in a common Github repository. The objective of this project is to build a structured, functional, tested and documented Github repository of CMIP data analysis code contributed by members of the Fresh Eyes on CMIP community. The repository is designed to promote code reusability and support efficient and transparent climate data analysis. The project actively welcomes contributions from the broader community, thus please reach out if you want to be involved.
  • Project: Developing guidelines and best practices for working with CMIP multi-model ensembles
    • Description: Earth system models (ESMs) are essential tools for studying climate change and are commonly combined into a multi-model ensemble (MME) to assess the robustness of projections and quantify uncertainties in future climate evolution. However, the increasing complexity of ESMs makes the analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of MME results challenging. In this project we provide a comprehensive literature review summarizing the latest research studies addressing various issues related to working with climate MMEs. Key topics include model selection, model evaluation, systematic model biases, model dependencies, weighting methods that account for model performance and interdependence, process-oriented assessment and diagnostics, sources and characterization of uncertainty, downscaling techniques to acquire regional climate change information. We also present an overview of available open-source software tools developed by a broader climate community that facilitate MME analysis, and discuss emergent approaches for analyzing MMEs such as machine learning. We thereby aim to provide guidance on how to best exploit climate MME in the upcoming 7th phase of CMIP and beyond.
    • Outcomes: Scientific publication, presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembley 2025, presentation at the European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2025.

• Co-lead of the “RESCCCUE – REminding Slovenian authorities Climate Change Crisis requires Urgent Effort” project team, awarded European Meteorological Society Outreach and Communication Award (2020)
  

  • Role: Together with Dr. Žiga Zaplotnik, Dr. Lina Boljka and Dr. Aljoša Slameršak I brought together over 100 leading Slovenian scientists from various disciplines comprising meteorologists, climatologists, oceanographers, physicists, biologists, chemists, geographers, and others, to advance climate literacy and science-based climate policy making in my home country Slovenia.