Projects
The climate system is changing rapidly and some regions have seen increases in extremes beyond what is expected from climate model simulations. To support targeted climate adaptation strategies, EXPECT will enable trustworthy assessments and predictions of regional climate change including extremes by developing a prototype operational capability for integrated attribution...
The ICEBERG project has a two-fold aim: to comprehensively assess sources, types, distributions and impacts of pollution in combination with chronic climate-induced stressors on ecosystems and communities in the European Arctic's land-ocean continuum using a One Health approach, and to develop strategies for enhancing community-led resilience, as well as pollution-control...
H2AERO is focused on the development and assessment of advanced scale-resolving simulation methodologies for the prediction of relevant phenomena in terms of flame dynamics, thermoacoustics and nitrogen oxides (NOx), for industrially relevant hydrogen injectors of aeronautical combustion chambers.
H2AERO proposes a multidisciplinary approach including...
The goal of HEAVY is to better understand and quantify the emission, transport and deposition of coarse and super coarse dust and their role on dust climate effects.
The overarching hypotheses are that 1) coarse and super coarse dust play a fundamental role in shaping the overall climate effect of desert dust, 2) a combination of uncertainties and...
The deposition of dust and other terrestrial aerosols represents an external supply of nutrients to the ocean surface. This supply helps sustain...
Plastics are one of the most widely used materials, with a wide variety of applications across all sectors of the economy. Its production is estimated to be around 360 million tonnes, and thus synthetic polymer is poorly biodegradable. Plastic life cycle is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change, plastic waste has been found in every...
After decades of development and a Nobel prize, Molecular Dynamics (MD) has reached maturity. It is no longer an exotic technique used by a small group of theoreticians but rather a method extensively used by a very large community of users. Millions of supercomputer hours are devoted to collecting trajectories, thus producing a deluge of simulation data that the community is...
Cold air outbreaks are typical of the mid-latitude climate during the cold season. Their relevance relies on the threat to life caused by the long-lasting periods with abnormally low temperatures, the potential of damage to crops, and the occurrence of high-impact weather events such as heavy snow and low visibility during blizzards.
Previous studies...
Understanding, predicting, and discovering the properties and performance of materials is key to delivering the technologies that power our economy and allow for the sustainable development of our society. For this reason, materials simulations have become one ofthe most intensive and fast growing domains for high-performance computing worldwide, with a recognized European...
ChEESE-2P is the second phase of a successful research project that was coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center until 2022. It aims to address the multiple challenges posed by geohazards and accurate predictions with the help of exascale computers. The project primarily addresses European institutions responsible for operational monitoring networks but also at hardware...