From an old mill, in Finland, A super computer creates replicas of planet Earth. Complex phenomena that affect agriculture, forestry, renewable energy or water are simulated and predicted. The idea is to make decisions to adapt to an increasingly warmer world. In this way they provide information to the sectors most affected by climate change.
It will be possible to predict, for example, how a storm will affect electricity production or how local infrastructure in cities would have to adapt in a 2 ºC warming scenario.
In this way, it will allow predictions to be refined until 2040. The first two “twins” of the Earth offer a resolution of 9 square kilometers, which will improve to 4.4 kilometers or even more.
“It allows us to ‘zoom’ from outside to our planet,” says the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Digitalization, Margrethe Vestager. “He has extraordinary potential” and invites us to think that “the future is much bigger than the past.” Vestager calls for using this tool to fulfill the promise of keeping temperatures below 1.5ºC at the end of the century.
Better predict the socioeconomic impacts of the climate crisis
The system draws on community technology in supercomputing, data and artificial intelligence. This allows us to better predict the socioeconomic impacts of the climate crisis. And it also represents a European commitment to advanced computing. And thus, highly precise, interactive and dynamic simulations of the Earth system can be carried out. With the data obtained, the impacts of climate change, natural hazards, marine ecosystems or urban spaces can be anticipated.
This will allow “protect biodiversity, manage water, renewable energy or food resourcesand mitigate disaster risks in a changing world,” says the European Commission.
‘Destiny the Earth’
The project, called ‘Destiny the Earth’, is designed for researchers, scientists and policy makers. It will allow us to explore how the Earth system will evolve under different scenarios. “To know what would happen if… for several decades,” they say in the European Commission.
Everyone can use it, but at different levels. Certain applications are reserved for research centers and public entities because they involve enormous consumption of computing resources.
The project It has a budget of 210 million euros of community funds, to which another 168 million will be added within two years, so that it continues to grow and improve.
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