Spain’s Predictia to build a climate emulator for DestinE
NOTE: this is based on an article that was originally published 9 May 2023 on the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’s website.
The Spanish data management expert Predictia will build Destination Earth’s (DestinE) climate emulator. The company was awarded the contract funded from the DestinE initative of the European Commission and issued by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Predictia will be leading a team of subcontractors that will create a machine-learning based emulator. The creation of this emulator is part of the activities led by ECMWF in the second phase of DestinE. The end goal is to exploit recent breakthroughs in the use of artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques for weather and climate to improve the capabilities of DestinE Digital Twins.
The climate emulator will be trained in the high-quality data output produced by the climate digital twin. This will enable it to reproduce some key physical properties and outputs of the physics-based simulations of the digital twin, but at dramatically reduced computational costs.
Predictia and its partners plan to develop the emulator building on ECMWF’s AI-based weather forecasting model. The team will work in close cooperation with the consortium in charge of developing the Climate DT, led by CSC-IT Center for Science and ECMWF.
Read more about the work Predictia will be doing on ECMWF’s website
