Our world is warming, what are the implications ?

The Earth's globally averaged near-surface air temperature is already about 1.1 degrees warmer than during the pre-industrial era, and we are certain that the warming will continue. We are confident that a new class of computer simulations, which will only become possible with the next generation of supercomputers, will enable a step change in the ability of our simulations to simulate climate change down to regional scales.

Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, climate modelling groups and weather services have teamed up with high performance computing centres and partners from the IT industry to improve all aspects of the workflow of weather and climate modelling. By enabling global storm- and eddy resolving weather and climate simulations on the upcoming (pre-)Exascale supercomputers, we provide a technology for better and more detailed climate-related risk assessments on a local level.