The Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin - delivering global high-quality climate information at scales that matter to society
The DestinE Digital Twin for Climate Change Adaptation (Climate DT) supports adaptation activities through the provision of innovative climate information on multi-decadal timescales, at scales at which the impacts of climate change are observed. This initiative presents the first ever attempt to operationalise the production of global multi-decadal climate projections at km-scale resolutions of 5 to 10km, leveraging the world- leading supercomputing facilities of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking along with some of the leading European climate models. It also enables performing bespoke simulations to assess the impacts of new scenarios or of extreme events in a rapidly warming world and inform adaptation activities.
The data portfolio on the DestinE Service Platform can be found here with the specific description of the Climate DT here.
The following 2 articles relating to the Climate DT are available:
- Wedi et al, Implementing Digital Twin technology of the Earth System in Destination Earth, accepted for publication in Journal of the European Meteorological Society, 2025.
- Doblas-Reyes et al, The Destination Earth digital twin for climate change adaptation, in review for Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), 2025.
Users are reminded of the specific data policy for Destination Earth data, in particular under Article 3 of the Terms & Conditions.
Simulations
An overview of available and planned simulations, as well as data access instructions can be found here.
Please note that the period indicated below is not continuous coverage, and is dependent on the simulation within the Climate DT dataset. Please see the overview page above for more details.