Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin
The Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT) is the first ever attempt to produce multi-decadal climate projections operationally. The Climate DT is implemented by Finland’s CSC-IT Center for Science who leads a consortium of European excellence centres with partners in six countries.
Climate change adaptation scenarios
The Climate DT provides multi-decadal global climate simulations with local granularity, including information specific to the sectors most affected by climate change such as renewable energy, urban planning or hydrology. The objective is to produce updated simulations every year or less, compared to the current models, ran only every several years. This enables the inclusion of the latest developments in Earth system science and digital infrastructure. An important innovation of the Climate DT is the data streaming concept, reducing the need for storage of massive data volumes (several decades of km-scale Earth system simulations). Impact-sector applications will be able to run within the digital twin workflow allowing them to obtain the information they need while the simulations are running instead of cherry picking within the stored data.
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