The Destination Earth (DestinE) info trailer offers a glimpse into the key elements of the ambitious European Union’s initiative to build highly accurate digital twins of our planet. Watch it now below.
The European Union’s DestinE initiative aims to enhance Europe’s capabilities and support Members States to respond and adapt to the environmental challenges posed by extreme events and climate change. DestinE is implemented by ECMWF, ESA, EUMETSAT, and over 100 institutions across Europe, under the leadership of the European Commission’s DG CNECT, and in a strategic partnership with the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU).
The DestinE info trailer introduces key elements of DestinE that ECMWF is delivering together with its 90 partners across Europe: The Digital Twin Engine and the first two high-priority digital twins. DestinE’s digital twins, focusing on Climate Change Adaptation and Weather-Induced Extremes, leverage the power of EuroHPC’s pre-exascale supercomputers to deliver a novel capability performing bespoke cutting-edge Earth system simulations, that complements existing national and European services. DestinE’s digital twins allow to test plausible scenarios and adaptation measures, and test specific ‘what-if’ questions related to weather and climate extremes.
Find out more about the Climate Change Adaptation and Weather-induced Extremes digital twins, their key features, and how to access their data through the DestinE platform.
Destination Earth is a European Union funded initiative launched in 2022, with the aim to build a digital replica of the Earth system by 2030. The initiative is being jointly implemented by three entrusted entities: the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) responsible for the creation of the first two ‘digital twins’ and the ‘Digital Twin Engine’, the European Space Agency (ESA) responsible for building the ‘Core Service Platform’, and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), responsible for the creation of the ‘Data Lake’.
We acknowledge the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking for awarding this project strategic access to the EuroHPC supercomputers LUMI, hosted by CSC (Finland) and the LUMI consortium, Marenostrum5, hosted by BSC (Spain) Leonardo, hosted by Cineca (Italy) and MeluXina, hosted by LuxProvide (Luxembourg) through a EuroHPC Special Access call.
More information about Destination Earth is on the Destination Earth website and the EU Commission website.
For more information about ECMWF’s role visit ecmwf.int/DestinE
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