Predicting, mitigating, and adapting to climate change and its effects on humans and natural systems is one of the biggest challenges in the 21st century. A new generation of efficient, optimised weather and climate models running on supercomputers is needed for reliable predictions of climate change and the weather and extreme weather events in a changing climate.
The Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe, ESiWACE, was created to provide HPC expertise and to serve the weather and climate modelling community with innovative technologies and tools to improve the computational model performance, support the adaption to new architectures as MarenostrumV or LUMI and provide enhanced support and training for the community.
Nowadays, the path towards exascale computing holds enormous challenges regarding portability, scalability and data management, which individual institutes can hardly face. In this direction, the third phase of the Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe, ESiWACE3, will therefore link, organise and enhance Europe’s excellence in weather and climate modelling to enable more detailed resolving weather and climate simulations on the upcoming exascale supercomputers and provide, in the future, the required technology for better and more detailed climate-related risk assessments on a local level.
