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A digital twin of Earth for the green transition

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  • Peter Bauer

    (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)

  • Bjorn Stevens

    (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology)

  • Wilco Hazeleger

    (Utrecht University)

Abstract

For its green transition, the EU plans to fund the development of digital twins of Earth. For these twins to be more than big data atlases, they must create a qualitatively new Earth system simulation and observation capability using a methodological framework responsible for exceptional advances in numerical weather prediction.

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  • Peter Bauer & Bjorn Stevens & Wilco Hazeleger, 2021. "A digital twin of Earth for the green transition," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 11(2), pages 80-83, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:11:y:2021:i:2:d:10.1038_s41558-021-00986-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-00986-y
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