Epistemic Review
I’m new to the concept of digital twins. My confidence level is pretty beginner-level here!
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Summary
The two Digital Twins (DTs) of ECMWF’s Destination Earth are Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate Adaptation DT) and Weather-induced Extremes Digital Twin (Extremes DT)
The Digital Twin Engine is the software infrastructure that enables implementation and eventual operation
These DTs provide high-resolution and high-accuracy simulations of Earth’s climate. It integrates Earth systems with sectors most affected by climate change and extreme weather
Extremes DT
The continuous component of the Extremes DT will provide global kilometre-scale simulation capabilities to predict weather extremes in a span of a few days
The on-demand component of the Extremes DT provides configurations for an interactive European monitoring and prediction framework. This framework functions at a sub-km scale for meteorological, hydrological, and air quality extremes
Climate Adaptation DT
The Climate Adaptation DT will provide global kilometre-scale simulation for local to global and national climate scenarios. The simulations will cover weather information spanning multiple decades. Uncertainties are also accounted for
DT Engine
The Digital Twin Engine is the software infrastructure for powering the two DTs using extreme-scale computing for the simulations, data handling, data fusion, and ML EuroHPC supercomputers will be leveraged to run the DTs and allow for their on-demand trials for application-specific scenarios