Digital Twins:
Innovative Research for a Sustainable Future

Bridging data and discovery with state-of-the-art digital twin technology
Bridging data and discovery with state-of-the-art digital twin technologyAdvancing climate knowledge through digital twinsHarnessing advanced simulations to adapt to and mitigate climate impacts
Bridging data and discovery with state-of-the-art digital twin technologyAdvancing climate knowledge through digital twinsHarnessing advanced simulations to adapt to and mitigate climate impacts
Understanding digital twins

A digital twin is a highly sophisticated virtual replica of a physical system, process, or object. It includes a tight integration between models, data and decisions with applications across multiple areas of science, technology, and society.

How the digital twin for climate change adaptation helps research and society?

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Understanding processes:
The digital twin produces simulations that allow researchers to understand the complex interactions of phenomena in the Earth-system that determine how our planet evolves.
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Simulating scenarios:
The digital twin allows researchers, policy makers and practitioners to develop and test different climate and impact scenarios that help understand what might happen under various conditions.
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Improving decision-making:
By providing clear and accurate insights on the past, present and future, the digital twin can support decision-makers, policy-makers and world leaders make better informed decisions to address climate-related risks effectively and sustainably
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Enhancing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinarity:
Virtual models support collaboration among users from different disciplines, impact sectors, and geographical locations, ensuring a holistic approach to studying and solving real climate challenges.
UNLOCKING CLIMATE POTENTIAL
High-quality information
from global to local scale
CLIMATE MODELS SIMULATIONS
Data streaming
Impact models
Applications in
different sectors
From data to impact

Integrating Climate and Impact Models

Digital twins offer a powerful capability: integrating the physical processes simulated in climate models with the modelling of aspects relevant for impact sectors.

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Energy
The climate adaptation digital twin in action: simulations to support decisions in the energy sector.
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Wildfires
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Urban Environments
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Water Management
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Agriculture
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Unlocking Future Possibilities
Harnessing Digital Twins for on-demand simulations.

Through interactive and configurable access to data, models and workflows, the digital twin represents an exciting opportunity to satisfy users’ curiosity.

What if ...
... the heatwave that affected Europe in 2018 occurred in a +2ºC warmer world ?
The digital twin allows not only to understand the conditions under which the 2018 heatwave had occurred, but also to simulate how much worse could this heatwave be if it occurs under a future warmer world.

Towards data streaming for efficient uptake by users.

Current practice is that data generated from lower-resolution climate models is stored to disk.

However, this approach is no longer suitable for the km-scale simulations produced by the digital twin, which call for users to be able to read and capture the information they need while the digital twin is running.

This challenge is solved by the streaming , which brings the climate models and impact models within the same workflow, significantly transforming the way climate research has been performed and adopting a user-centred setup. Data streaming allows the output of the digital twin to be handled on-the-fly as it is being produced, therefore lowering memory requirements significantly.