ESA Digital Twin Earth

I am the Science Lead for the ESA Digital Twin Earth Precursor: Climate Impact Explorer project.

Our innovative Climate Impact Explorer will be built on existing advanced Earth System Models (and their land/atmosphere/ocean components), processed using High Performance Computing infrastructure and assimilating state-of-the-art Earth Observation data to produce optimised model simulations and ultimately delivered via Machine Learning emulation to the end user through a cloud-based Interactive Data Portal.

It will enable decision makers without expert technical knowledge to generate and visualise, in real-time, decision relevant information relating to regionalised impacts of climate change.

Innovative combination of:

• Earth Observation Data
• Physical Process-Based Model
• Climate Change Scenarios
• Data Assimilation
• AI (Machine Learning) All with a strong focus on the real needs and requirements of our Stakeholder group.

The outputs of the demonstration system will be projected drought metrics over Africa and UK driven by CMIP6-based climate scenarios.