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🌍🌐 Collaboration is key for advancing Destination Earth. Just over six months into phase II of the #DestinE initiative, experts from all over Europe met in Hamburg for a project meeting and hackathon to discuss crucial next steps and accelerate progress of the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT). The Climate DT is implemented by a strong partnership led by CSC – IT Center for Science, in close collaboration with ECMWF. 💻 The four-day hackathon was a perfect opportunity for scientists to work collaboratively on the challenges identified in the project meeting. A major theme of the hackathon was the use of #AI and #MachineLearning and how they can be used to quantify uncertainties in the Climate DT outputs and enhance user interaction. 🇪🇺 The Destination Earth initiative shows how collaboration throughout Europe can drive innovation and progress for tackling the most pressing climate challenges, by bringing together diverse expertise from research, operational centres and industry. 🎥 Watch the video below to hear from scientists about the collaborative work on the Climate DT. Read more about the project meeting and hackathon ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eveYjtxf Thanks to our partners: CSC - IT Center for Science, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE - CNR, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum | DKRZ |, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), University of Helsinki, Politecnico di Torino, Hewlett Packard Enterprise France

Find out about our activities at #COP29, where three Directors participated remotely or in person: Director-General Florence Rabier; the Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), Laurence Rouil; and the Director for Destination Earth at ECMWF, Irina Sandu ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7PH4445 #COP29Azerbaijan

❗New job opportunities at ECMWF in support of ‘Space for Early Warning in Africa’❗ European Commission DG INTPA aims to stimulate partnerships to develop space-based services, applications and tools to strengthen #EarlyWarning Systems of hazardous weather and climate- related events. Subject to approval, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is anticipated to be one of the implementing partners. ECMWF has currently two exiting new positions in support of these activities: - Partnership Management and Training Specialist (A2): https://lnkd.in/ev6fTSE8   - Data and Cloud Support Specialist (A2): https://lnkd.in/e83sJP23 Activities will be implemented in close cooperation with EUMETSAT and African Union Commission and close partnerships will be established with the African RCCs and the European #NMHSs and other topic specialists on #earlywarning, as well as with World Meteorological Organization and its #EW4All initiative.

Today was the final day of the NWP SAF Workshop on Satellite Observations of the Earth System Interfaces 🛰️    Thanks to everyone who participated and contributed their perspectives. 

The need for robust, high-quality climate and atmospheric composition data has never been more pressing. We look back at our presence at #COP29 to share the importance of data from the #CopernicusClimate Change Service and the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service now and in the future. Read the full article, highlighting the most important discussions ECMWF Director-General Florence Rabier, C3S Director Carlo Buontempo and CAMS Director Laurence Rouil took part in. C3S: https://lnkd.in/dm_U-M3z CAMS: https://lnkd.in/dzNS2Fj5

On this special SC24 episode of In the Arena, we sat down with Peter Dueben of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to explore the future of weather modeling: https://hubs.ly/Q02Y_6Rr0 🌍 From AI-powered forecasts to HPC breakthroughs, this conversation explores how cutting-edge technology is transforming predictions and tackling global challenges like climate change. Don’t miss this insightful discussion on the innovations shaping the intersection of weather science and supercomputing! #ECMWF #SC24 #Supercomputing #HPC #AI #ClimateTech #WeatherModeling

Our Director-General Florence Rabier participated in The Alan Turing Institute and Met Office Business and Industry showcase event discussing the role of #AI in weather forecasting and emphasising the importance of working closely with meteorologists and users from our Member States. Read more ➡️ https://t.co/FwJh6d0xcG Watch the video ➡️ https://t.co/BF1uYv0i1i #MetOfficeXTuring

🌍🌐 Celebrating Destination Earth’s (#DestinE) awards. 🏆 Following the recent announcement that DestinE has won two HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, our ECMWF scientists Peter Dueben and Ioan Hadade received the awards together with Pekka Manninen from CSC - IT Center for Science at the SC Conference Series (#SC24) in Atlanta, USA. 🌟 DestinE won the category “Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences" for its Earth-system Digital Twins, which ECMWF is implementing together with many partners across Europe. 🌍 DestinE’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin, developed by a CSC-led partnership in close collaboration with ECMWF, has won in the category “Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement”. 💬 Irina Sandu, Director for Destination Earth at ECMWF, highlights the joint efforts behind this ambitious initiative: “Our efforts to exploit the state-of-the-art supercomputers provided by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) for the benefit of society, the outstanding work of all the partners ECMWF is working so closely with, under the leadership of the European Commission DG CNECT (EU Digital & Tech) have not gone unnoticed and that is very motivating for everyone involved.” Read more ➡️  https://lnkd.in/ei_jFacm 

Since early November high levels of air pollution have been affecting the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Our #CopernicusAtmosphere data shows how high concentrations of fine particulate matter PM2.5 have been accumulating from north-eastern Pakistan and across northern India to Bangladesh. Air pollution episodes like this are common in the region at this time of year, due to the particular orography, atmospheric circulation and crop residue fires. However, the current situation is exceptional and considered hazardous to health: During many periods between 10 and 20 November, CAMS data showed concentrations of PM2.5 exceeding 300 µg/m³ across large parts of the region. The World Health Organization recommends targets of 15 µg/m³ daily and 5 µg/m³ annual mean concentrations not to be exceeded. Read our latest article for all the details: https://lnkd.in/eXx99q_X

🌍🌐 It’s been an exciting week for Destination Earth (#DestinE). It was the second time since its launch that the DestinE initiative of the European Commission was featured at a COP panel. 💬 “The panel highlighted the value of digital twin information, like the one produced in DestinE Climate Change Digital Twin for sensitive regions such as the Arctic regarding climate change,” concludes Irina Sandu, Director for Destination Earth at ECMWF, about the COP29 Azerbaijan panel on global and regional approaches to cryosphere and related climate challenges. Irina Sandu also emphasised how the DestinE Climate Digital Twin (Climate DT) is a game-changer, offering a capability to perform multi-decadal climate projections both regularly (e.g. yearly) and on demand. The discussion highlighted using this data to address Arctic climate challenges, with contributions from experts like Avijâja Rosing-Olsen (Ministry of Agriculture, Self-Sufficiency, Energy and Environment of the Government of Greenland), and Sea Ice Scientist Till Soya Rasmussen (Danish Meteorological Institute DMI).  📽️ Watch the panel session and find more information ➡️  https://lnkd.in/ekst7yBW