Destination Earth Use Case For Air Quality

Together with the Institute of Energy and Climate Research (IEK-8), JSC is developing an interactive web application to run custom-tailored numerical and machine learning simulations to forecast air quality over Europe. In a contract with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), a demonstrator is under development that runs on a virtual machine on the JSC cloud and uses JURECA-DC resources to run simulations with the EURAD-IM regional chemistry transport model or the MLAir machine learning tool. The German Umweltbundesamt and North Rhine-Westphalia’s LANUV act as core users and have provided valuable feedback on the design and functionality of this application. We make use of JSC’s UNICORE software to establish secure and efficient connections between cloud and supercomputer. First trial runs of some system components on the EuroHPC system LUMI at CSC, Finland have also been performed. Ultimately, this application shall become part of the Destination Earth digital twin on extreme weather.

More information about this use case can be found on the Destination Earth website.

Contact: Sabine Schröder