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SUMMARY:Science and Technology Seminar: How the EC's DestinE programme tra
 nsforms environmental policy making - Discovering the Climate Digital Twin
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nDue to technical issues\, we have to postpone the seminar.
  We will update you on a new date. Please accept our apologies.\n\nHost\n\
 nIrina Sandu (ECMWF)\n\nSpeakers\n\nBjorn Stevens (Max Planck Institute fo
 r Meteorology)\n\nVincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)\n\nBackground\n\nThe Europea
 n Union (EU) plans to be climate neutral by 2050. For its green transition
 \, the EU plans to fund the development of digital twins of the Earth. For
  these twins to be more than big data atlases\, they must create a qualita
 tively new Earth system simulation and observation capability using a meth
 odological framework responsible for exceptional advances in numerical wea
 ther prediction.\n\nDeveloping next-generation models to produce high-reso
 lution digital twins of the Earth is an area of focus in ECMWF’s Strateg
 y 2021-30.\n\nSeminar description\n\nThis seminar is part of our Science a
 nd Technology Seminar Series. Within this series there will be a set of ta
 lks that will focus on the development of digital twins.\n\nPresentation a
 bstracts\n\nBjorn Stevens\n\nProgress in climate modelling is most evident
  through its incorporation of additional processes\, which allow the model
 s to be applied to a wider range of questions. Efforts to increase the phy
 sical fidelity of the simulations continues to be frustrated by an inabili
 ty of existing models to explicitly represent processes on the scales at w
 hich they are either understood or observed.  Whereas numerical weather p
 rediction has quietly increased its social utility through more accurate s
 hort- to medium-term forecasts of devastating extreme events such as flood
 s\, hurricanes\, droughts and wind-storms\, climate scientists have strugg
 led to similarly improve the regional fidelity of their projections\, even
  when using high-resolution downscaling techniques. A real breakthrough in
  our ability to predict how the climate will change at regional scales is 
 now in reach. This is largely possible due to the latest advances in super
 computing\, including the emergence of exascale computing\, and to the sub
 stantial efforts made in the last years in Europe to adapt our weather and
  climate modelling capabilities and their underlying infrastructures to no
 vel supercomputing architectures.\n\nVincent-Henri Peuch\n\nECMWF has been
  entrusted by the European Union to operate two of the six thematic core C
 opernicus Services: The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Co
 pernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Both Services are integral 
 components of the Copernicus Programme\; Copernicus is the European Union
 ’s Earth Observation Programme\, which monitors our planet and its envir
 onment for the ultimate benefit of the citizens of Europe. Within this Pro
 gramme\,  the mission of C3S is to support society by providing authorita
 tive information about the past\, present and future climate in Europe and
  the rest of the World\, while CAMS provides consistent and quality-contro
 lled information related to air pollution and health\, solar energy\, gree
 nhouse gases and climate forcing\, everywhere in the world.\n\nCopernicus 
 Services at ECMWF are combining observations from satellites (Copernicus S
 entinels and third part missions) and in-situ networks\, as well as numeri
 cal models to provide environmental services to their users.  They are th
 erefore heavily relying on the scientific excellence in Europe and worldwi
 de\, be it within academia\, modelling centres\, space\, environmental and
  meteorological agencies.\n\nThe seminar will describe the complementarity
  between Copernicus and Destination Earth (DestinE) and how Destination Ea
 rth\, which indeed ambitions to boost modelling and predictive capacities\
 , in particular with the envisaged digital twins\, can take advantage of t
 he Copernicus infrastructure while boosting the science underpinning the v
 arious components of Copernicus services.\n\nAttendance\n\nPre-registratio
 n is not required. Follow this link to join the seminar.\n\nhttps://events
 .ecmwf.int/event/254/
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