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SUMMARY:Science and Technology Seminar: How the EC's DestinE programme tra
 nsforms environmental policy making: National and collaborative perspectiv
 es
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nHost\n\nPeter Bauer (ECMWF)\n\nSpeakers\n\nJørn Kristians
 en (MetNo)\n\nDr. Jørn Kristiansen holds a PhD in meteorology from the Un
 iversity in Oslo. Since 2005 he has worked at the Norwegian Meteorological
  Institute (MET Norway). First as a research scientist in numerical weathe
 r prediction (NWP). In 2010 he became the leader of Yr – the world’s f
 ifth biggest online weather service. Yr is a collaboration between MET Nor
 way and the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). Dr. Kristiansen was inte
 gral in establishing postprocessing of the NWP data for more localized\, a
 ccurate and user-centric weather forecasts. Between 2011 and 2015 he was h
 ead of the NWP division of the R&D department. He contributed to the notab
 le achievement of establishing the unique collaboration between Finland\, 
 Norway and Sweden on an operational high-resolution ensemble prediction sy
 stem for more reliable weather forecasts. As Director for the Development 
 Centre for Weather Forecasting\, he has since 2016 pushed NWP to Science f
 or Services\, organizing and leading the complete automated information ch
 ain for weather forecasting\, from observations to end-users and open data
 \, and from research to operations. Dr. Kristiansen has several national a
 nd international duties\, including member of the WMO Polar Prediction Pro
 ject steering group. A recent interest interdisciplinary research and end-
 user focused co-production that is crucial to significantly advance the pr
 ovision of forecasts and their uncertainties. \n\nFrancisco Doblas-Reyes 
 (BSC)\n\nFrancisco Javier Doblas-Reyes is an ICREA research professor and 
 Director of the Earth Sciences Department at Barcelona Supercomputing Cent
 er-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS). The Department hosts mo
 re than 100 engineers\, physicists\, mathematicians and social scientists 
 who use the latest advances in supercomputing and data analysis to develop
  the best information and services in climate and air quality. He is autho
 r of more than 190 peer-reviewed papers\, member of a number of panels of 
 the World Meteorological Organization\, lead author of the Fifth Assessmen
 t Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\, and coordinati
 ng lead author of the Sixth Assessment Report that will be published in a 
 few months.\n\nBackground\n\nThe European Union (EU) plans to be climate n
 eutral by 2050. For its green transition\, the EU plans to fund the develo
 pment of digital twins of the Earth. For these twins to be more than big d
 ata atlases\, they must create a qualitatively new Earth system simulation
  and observation capability using a methodological framework responsible f
 or exceptional advances in numerical weather prediction.\n\nSeminar descri
 ption\n\nThis seminar is part of our Science and Technology Seminar Series
 . Within this series there will be a set of talks that will focus on the d
 evelopment of digital twins in the context of the EU Destination Earth ini
 tiative. This third talk in that set focused on how such European actions 
 can support and enhance national activities.\n\nJørn Kristiansen from Met
  Norway spoke of the need for National Meteorological and Hydrological Ser
 vices to constantly identify new areas of investigation and new directions
  for interdisciplinary and joint research\, including mathematical tools a
 nd computing science\, making more of existing and emerging observations t
 hrough modelling and data assimilation among areas covered.\n\nFrancisco D
 oblas-Reyes from the Barcelona Computing Centre looked at the way a scient
 ific community can benefit from Destination Earth\, in areas such as the n
 eed for computationally-efficient models to run many hindcasts with large 
 ensembles\, and the challenges of managing such workflows and data.\n\nIn 
 the first talk\, Peter Bauer presented an overview of the Digital Twins wh
 ich are ECMWF's contribution to the Destination Earth initiative. \n\nThe
  second talk was given by representatives from EUMETSAT and ESA. Toni Tolk
 er-Nielsen and Lothar Wolf provided an overview of their components of Des
 tinE\; Core Platform and Data Lake.\n\nhttps://events.ecmwf.int/event/242/
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