The DestinE Digital Twin for Climate Change Adaptation (Climate DT) supports adaptation activities by providing innovative climate information on multi-decadal timescales, globally, at scales at which many impacts of climate change are observed. It combines cutting-edge global Earth-system models, impact-sector applications and observations into a unified framework to provide global climate projections and impact-sector information on multi-decadal timescales (1990 to ~2050), at very high spatial resolutions (5 to 10 km).
The Climate DT represents the first ever attempt to operationalise the production of global multi-decadal climate projections, leveraging the world-leading supercomputing facilities of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking along with some of the leading European climate models. A concise overview of what the Climate DT aims to achieve, and of the different concepts essential for an understanding of the Digital Twin’s characteristics, is included in the [Climate DT factsheet](https://destine.ecmwf.int/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024.06.07_Climate…)
## Future Projection
To project how climate will change on a global and local scale in the future, forcing changes according to the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 3-7.0 scenario from ScenarioMIP. The SSP3-7.0 scenario explores a future with a continuous increase in CO2 emissions with no strong mitigation efforts. All DestinE projections carried out so far follow this scenario. In the future, alternative future scenarios will be explored. The projections carried out so far are initialised in 2020 from reanalysis followed by a 5-year ocean spin-up. For the upcoming simulations carried out in phase 2 of DestinE, scenario simulations will extend the historical simulations.
## Models
The Climate DT exploits and further evolves a new generation of global storm-resolving and eddy-rich models built through a cooperative model development approach. For more information on models please click [here](https://destine.ecmwf.int/climate-change-adaptation-digital-twin-climat…)
## Simulations
The Climate DT team carries out several types of digital twin simulations on the EuroHPC supercomputers. Multi-decadal simulations are produced to cover the recent past (from 1990) and possible future evolutions of the climate up to 2050. See [here](https://destine.ecmwf.int/climate-change-adaptation-digital-twin-climat…) for more information on Simulations
## Parameters
Below we see the list of parameters extracted from the 'DestinE Climate DT data portfolio', for more information please refer to the page [Climate DT Parameters](https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/DDCZ/Climate+DT+Phase+1+data+catal…)