Digital Twins, Destination Earth, and the Future of Climate Modelling

 

Director & Professor Bjorn Stevens

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology 

(MPI-M), Germany

 

邀请人/报告会主持人 ：周天军 研究员

 

2023年4月11日（星期二）9:30

3号楼12层报告厅

 

报告摘要:

Climate change is crossing thresholds, but not the ones most of us think about.  Socially, evidence abounds that climate change is unfolding, and is bringing with it the need to inform decision making on local levels, globally, with the best possible science. Technologically, advances in high-performance computing are opening new frontiers in simulation science and machine learning.  km-scale Earth system models provide both a more physical representation of the climate system, and increased bandwidth with observations and with impact communities.  AI assisted workflows create the possibility to interact with these systems in ways that can scale across a growing user base. Together these are creating a new, and necessary, foundation for climate science to assist society in its efforts to adapt to and mitigate against climate change. The global nature of these problems, and the scale of the challenge, call for renewed national and international commitments to reconstitute climate science at the frontiers of technology at a time of incredible need.

 

报告人简介:

Bjorn Stevens is a renowned atmospheric scientist and the current managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the Earth’s climate system, particularly in the areas of cloud physics, atmospheric dynamics, and climate modelling. In addition to his role as managing director of the MPI-M, he also holds a professorship at the University of Hamburg and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, including the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Meteorological Society. He is jointly lead coordinator of the Grant Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity from the World Climate Research Programme.