DestinE is a European Union-funded initiative to develop a digital twin of our planet by 2030, to model, monitor, and simulate natural phenomena, hazards, and the related human activities. These features assist users in designing accurate and actionable adaptation strategies and mitigation measures.

Alice Sartori de Monteiro, Computing and Software Support Specialist at ECMWF, led the webinar and introduced the consortium to DestinE’s features, which she described as fundamental for DTWO: “Destination Earth data is vital for DTWO use cases,” she stated. “Understanding the data and its access framework is crucial for developing effective workflows and ensuring integration into the DTWO platform.”

The participants during the workshop.

DestinE is the result of a joint effort among ECMWF, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), together with over 100 partners throughout Europe and coordinated by DG CNECT.

ECMWF plays a central role in delivering the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate Adaptation DT) and the Weather-Induced Extremes Digital Twin (Extremes DT), the first two high-priority projects addressing climate change adaptation and weather-related extremes. These twins will simulate the behaviour of our planet with unprecedented quality, at high-resolution spatial scales, where the impacts of extreme weather and climate change are felt.

Subsequently, the workshop introduced Polytope, a web service designed to provide efficient access to hypercubes of DestinE Digital Twin data, while also federating resources distributed across different locations. Users can easily retrieve and explore this data through a dedicated Python client package.

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