Stephan Siemen

Head of Development Section

Forecast Department, Development Section

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Summary:

Stephan Siemen heads the Development Section at ECMWF. The section develops software and services to support core activities at ECMWF. The software enables researchers and analysts in and outside ECMWF to en/decode, process, access, archive and visualise observations and forecast data.

Stephan is directly involved in the development of the plotting package Magics and supports in general new developments on visualisations at ECMWF.

Professional interests:

Visualisation of meteorological data
Providing efficient access to large data sets
Software development methodologies and modern programming models & languages

Career background:

Head of Development Section, Forecast Department, ECMWF, 2013 - present
Head of Graphics / Meteorological Visualisation Section, Operations Department, ECMWF, 2007 - 2013
Analyst working on Magics, Graphics Section, Operations Department, ECMWF, 2003 - 2007
Senior Research Officer, Propagation Laboratory, Mathematics Department, University of Essex, 2001 - 2003

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

S. Siemen and A.R. Holt, A Modified VAD Technique for Analysing Wind Fields with Doppler radar, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, vol. 25, p. 1201-1204, 2000 (This paper was presented by me as a talk on the 1st European Conference on Radar Meteorology in Bologna, Italy, September 2000)
S. Siemen, A.R. Holt, P. Hardaker, Extracting Doppler Radar Wind Information in Weather Prediction, 30th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, AMS, p. 461-462, Munich, 2001
S. Siemen and A.R. Holt, Recovering wind field features from VAD signatures for use in numerical forecasting, URSI Commission F Open Symposium, 2002
Y.K Goh, S.Siemen and A.R. Holt, Progress in dual Doppler radar wind retrieval from operational radars, Poster, Royal Meteorological Society Conference, Sep. 2003
Chris G. Collier, Fay Davies, Karen E. Bozier, Anthony R. Holt, Doug R. Middleton, Guy N. Pearson, Stephan Siemen, Dave V. Willetts, Graham J.G. Upton and Rob I. Young, Dual-Doppler Lidar Measurements for Improving Dispersion Models, p.825-838, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 86, no 6, June 2005

Other publications

ECMWF Newsletter

Wagemann, J., S. Siemen, F. Venuti and E. Andersson (2017): Open data in the spotlight during week of events. ECMWF Newsletter 151 [web version]
Wagemann, J. and S. Siemen (2016): Web standards for easy access to big data, ECMWF Newsletter 148 [web version]
BUFR data in Metview - ECMWF Newsletter 132 (Summer 2012)
Support for OGC standards in Metview 4 – ECMWF Newsletter 127 (Spring 2011)
Metview 4 – ECMWF’s latest generation meteorological workstation – ECMWF Newsletter 126 (Winter 2010/2011)
Metview Macro – A powerful meteorological batch language – ECMWF Newsletter 125 (Autumn 2010)
Magics++ 2.8 – New developments – ECMWF Newsletter 122 (Winter 2009/2010)
Overview of Magics++ – ECMWF Newsletter 110 (Winter 2006/2007)

Articles published in German/UK edition of Linux magazine

S. Siemen, Virtuelle Welt, Linux Magazin (DE) 02/2003, S. 100-103
S. Siemen, Bewegte Objekte, Linux Magazin (DE) 03/2003 , S.98-101
S. Siemen, Coin 3D – Make the programming of 3D worlds easier than with OpenGL, Linux Magazine (UK), Issue 28, March 2003
S. Siemen, Räumliche Malerei, Linux Magazin (DE) 04/2003, S.98-102
S. Siemen, Moving Objects – Interactive 3D with Coin and Qt, Linux Magazine (UK), Issue 29, April 2003
S. Siemen, Drawing in 3D – Interactive 3D Worlds with Coin and Qt, Linux Magazine (UK), Issue 30, May 2003
S. Siemen, Software-Doping, Linux Magazin (DE) 06/2003, S.59-62
S. Siemen, Speed Compiler, Compiling C and C++ Programs with Intel’s Compiler, Linux Magazine (UK), Issue 32, July 2003
S. Siemen, Vier auf einen Streich, Code-Optimierung für SSE2-fähige Prozessoren, Linux Magazin (DE) 08/2003, S.101-105
S. Siemen, Go Faster, Optimizing Programs for SSE2-capable Processors, Linux Magazine (UK) Issue 34, September 2003
S. Siemen, Top Speed, Programme optimieren mit Profilern und Memory-Debuggern, Linux Magazin (DE) 10/2003, S.88-92
O. Frommel, S. Siemen, Glänzende Effekte, 3D-Grafiken verbessern durch Shader, Linux Magazin (DE) 02/2004
S. Siemen, Mit Vektoren zeichnen, Das Grafikformat SVG – Struktur und Praxis, Linux Magazin (DE) 11/2004, S.90-94
S. Siemen, Vektorgrafik in Bewegung, Vektorgrafiken im SVG-Format animieren, Linux Magazin Sonderheft Multitalent (DE) April – Juni 2006, S.78-80