km-scale climate, 4th hackathon

Survey

nextGEMS 4th hackathon

Hackathon organization

1.1. Did the hackathon fulfil your expectations?*

Yes and beyond that!

Yes!

Most of my expectations were fulfilled

Some of my expectations were fulfilled

I didn't have any expectations at all

1.2. How did you like the hackathon format? Please choose an answer on a scale of 1 (too structured) to 4 (unstructured).*

1 - too structured

2

3

4 - unstructured / I was lost

Please comment and/or let us know what was missing.

1.3. Did you feel well informed about the hackathon before the hackathon (via email, Mattermost, Linkedin etc.)? Please answer on a scale of 1 (very well informed) to 4 (not informed at all).*

1 - very well informed

2

3

4 - not informed at all

If you chose 4 above, please let us know why you felt this way and/or what communication method was missing.

1.4. How was the support of the project coordination team during the hackathon? Please answer on a scale of 1 (awesome) to 4 (very bad).*

1 - awesome

2

3

4 - very bad

Is there any issue in particular you want to raise?

1.5. How many hackathons have you attended (including this one)?*

1

2

3

4

Venue

2.1. How did you find the venue?*

Excellent

Cosy

Too spread out

Very uncomfortable

Other

If you answered 'Other' above, please give us more details.

2.2. Was there enough space for group work?*

Yes

No

2.3. Have you encountered any issues regarding the available facilities?

2.4. Please let us know how we can improve in terms of venue.

Group work and Networking

3.1. Which group(s) did you join?*

Ocean

Land

Atmosphere

Storms & Society

Data support

Other

3.2. How was your group work?*

The group work was guided

We reached our set goal for the hackathon

I could follow my own interests

I learned something new

I mostly supported other people's work

There was little guidance on collective objectives

I was left to fend for myself

3.3. Please describe here the issues you encountered regarding group work, and let us know what needs to be improved.

3.4. If you took part in the World Cafe, please let us know your thoughts about such a networking format.

Data and processing

4.1. Did you like having the pre-hackathon data-handling session(s)?*

I did not attend the sessions

I did not attend the session, but i watched the recordings

Yes

I prefer another format

If you answered 'I prefer another format' above, please expand here.

4.2. Were there any issues that hindered you from starting to work with the data?*

Yes

No

If Yes, please comment below.

4.3. What did you like about the data access in the hackathon?*

4.4. Was the technical and data support helpful?*

Too overwhelming

About right

Not enough

If you answered 'Not enough' above, please tell us what was missing.

4.5. What can we improve for the next hackathon?*

4.6. How do you analyze the data during the hackathon? Do you start interactively or do you have a scheme you follow?*

4.7. Is your approach to analysis during the hackathon different from your ususal approach? Please give us some details.*

4.8. Which model output did you work with?*

ICON

ICON-HAMOCC

IFS-NEMO

IFS-FESOM

IFS-AMIP

4.9. On which spatial extent did you typically work?*

global

ocean basin scale / continental scale

country scale

even finer

lat-lon box

irregular region

4.10. On which temporal aggregation did you typically work?*

sub-hourly

(some) hourly

daily

monthly

4.11. On which temporal extent did you typically work?*

single timestep / single mean value

individual hours for some days

individual hours for some months

individual hours for some years

individual days for some months

individual days for some years

individual months for some years

other

If you answered 'Other' above, please specify here.

4.12. What data format did you work with?*

NetCDF

GRIB

other

I don't know

Please specify the dataset if appropriate.

4.13. Which grid were you mostly working with?*

Native grid

Regridded to lat-lon

Regridded to 1 deg x 1 deg

regridded to 0.25 deg x 0.25 deg

HEALpix

4.14. On which zoom level were you working on?*

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

N/A

4.15. Which tool did you use for data processing?*

R

CDOs

Python

MATLAB

Other

4.16. If you use CDOs, for which operations do you use them more often?

4.17. Did you encounter problems using CDOs?

Yes

No

If you answered 'Yes' above, is there anything that should be improved?

4.18. What output variables did you use?*

4.19. Were you missing any output variables?

4.20. Are you still using the outputs of the previous cycles' runs?*

Yes

No

If you answered 'Yes' above, please explain how you are using these outputs (e.g. for testing scripts, your research question, papers).

4.21. Are you planning on working with nextGEMS data beyond the hackathon/project?*

Yes

No

Not yet decided

4.22. Is there anything you didn't manage to do by the end of the hackathon and none of your colleagues could help you out?

General statistics

5.1. Your project*

nextGEMS

EERIE

WarmWorld

Destination Earth

Other

5.2. Your gender*

Female

Male

Diverse

Prefer not to answer

5.3. Your age*

20-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

>60

5.4. Your career stage*

Student

PhD candidate

Experienced researcher (< 6 years after PhD)

Senior researcher (> 6 years after PhD)

Professor

Technical staff

Other

General comments

6.1. If you attended more than one nextGEMS hackathon, please share your impression about the good/bad practices, issues you did not see addressed, improvements you noticed etc.?

6.2. Please share here your thoughts on the hackathon that were not covered above.

Thank you!

Your answers will be submitted anonymously.