Projects

The project proposes a solution for making on-demand configurable digital twin engines for forecasting of environmental extremes at the sub-km scale. We name the solution Destination Earth On-Demand Extremes (DEODE). The core of our solution is to provide an on-demand workflow with co-design of high resolution predictions about extreme weather events combined with decision...

Our changing climate is already affecting millions of people across the world and will continue to do so in the coming decades. Successful adaptation strategies require the best available estimate of plausible future climate trajectories. Traditionally, this information has been mostly based on results from climate model projections that follow different future socio-economic...

With present computational capabilities and data volumes entering the Exascale Era, digital twins of the Earth system will be able to mimic the different system components (atmosphere, ocean, land, lithosphere) with unrivalled precision, providing analyses, forecasts, and what-if scenarios for natural hazards and resources from their genesis phases and across their temporal...

Extreme climatic events, environmental degradation and socio-economic inequalities exacerbate the risk of infectious disease epidemics. We lack the evidence-base to understand and predict the impacts of extreme events and landscape changes on disease risk, leaving communities in climate change hotspots vulnerable to increasing health threats. This is in part due to a lack of...

Seasonal Forecasts are critical tools for early-warning decision support systems, that can help reduce the related risk associated with hot or cold weather and other events that can strongly affect a multitude of socio-economic sectors. Recent advances in both statistical approaches and numerical modeling have improved the skill of Seasonal Forecasts. However, especially in...

ArcticXchange will apply a transdisciplinary framework for knowledge co-production with the long-term objective to develop a climate service addressed to reindeer herders. During the project, we will co-develop a case study for reindeer husbandry in Lapland, understood as a proof-of-concept of the added value of climate services for this community. Different steps for the...

The Atmospheric Composition group (AC) of the Earth Sciences department of the Barcelona SupercomputingCenter(BSC) aims  at better...

CAMS provides daily analysis and forecasts, as well asreanalysis products. CAMS has a global service, implemented by ECMWF, and a regional air qualityservice implemented by the CAMS2_40 consortium. The CAMS2_82 ITT is asking for a detailed aposteriori evaluation of the global service components and products for the period 2021-2025.The contract below is the response to this...

Pollution is one of the most significant environmental problems in modern cities, leading to disturbing odour episodes and low-air quality conditions that can be detrimental to public health. Its impact is increasing given the continuous city growth (79 % of the population worldwide live in urban areas) and the climate change effects. Nowadays, half the cities in high-income...

The goal of this project is to extend the temporal coverage of the CAMS-REG_ERF-COVID19 dataset developed under the CAMS_COP066 contract, from 01/08/2020 to 31/12/2020, and to include the effect of the second wave and the associated new round of lockdowns across the different European countries during the year 2020. The extension of the dataset will allow to estimate the...