The Destination Earth digital twin for climate change adaptation

Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J.; Kontkanen, Jenni; Sandu, Irina; Acosta, Mario; Al Turjmam, Mohammed Hussam; Alsina-Ferrer, Ivan; Andrés-Martínez, Miguel; Anerdi, Costanza; Arriola, Leo; Axness, Marvin; Batlle Martín, Marc; Bauer, Peter; Becker, Tobias; Beltrán, Daniel; Beyer, Sebastian; Bockelmann, Hendryk; Bretonnière, Pierre-Antoine; Cabaniols, Sebastien; Caprioli, Silvia; Castrillo, Miguel; Chandrasekar, Aparna; Cheedela, Suvarchal; Correal, Victor; Danovaro, Emanuele; Davini, Paolo; Enkovaara, Jussi; Frauen, Claudia; Früh, Barbara; Gaya Àvila, Aina; Ghinassi, Paolo; Ghosh, Rohit; Ghosh, Supriyo; González, Iker; Grayson, Katherine; Griffith, Matthew; Hadade, Ioan; Haine, Christopher; Hartick, Carl; Haus, Utz-Uwe; Hearne, Shane; Järvinen, Heikki; Jiménez, Bernat; John, Amal; Juchem, Marlin; Jung, Thomas; Kegel, Jessica; Kelbling, Matthias; Keller, Kai; Kinoshita, Bruno; Kiszler, Theresa; Klocke, Daniel; Kluft, Lukas; Koldunov, Nikolay; Kölling, Tobias; Kolstela, Joonas; Kornblueh, Luis; Kosukhin, Sergey; Lacima-Nadolnik, Aleksander; Leal Rojas, Jeisson Javier; Lehtiranta, Jonni; Lunttila, Tuomas; Luoma, Anna; Manninen, Pekka; Medvedev, Alexey; Milinski, Sebastian; Mohammed, Ali; Müller, Sebastian; Naryanappa, Devaraju; Nazarova, Natalia; Niemelä, Sami; Niraula, Bimochan; Nortamo, Henrik; Nummelin, Aleksi; Nurisso, Matteo; Ortega, Pablo; Paronuzzi, Stella; Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, Xabier; Pelletier, Charles; Peña, Carlos; Polade, Suraj; Pradhan, Himansu Kesari; Quintanilla, Rommel; Quintino, Tiago; Rackow, Thomas; Räisänen, Jouni; Rajput, Maqsood Mubarak; Redler, René; Reuter, Balthasar; Rocha Monteiro, Nuno; Roura-Adserias, Francesc; Ruppert, Silva; Sayed, Susan; Schnur, Reiner; Sharma, Tanvi; Sidorenko, Dmitry; Sievi-Korte, Outi; Soret, Albert; Steger, Christian; Stevens, Bjorn; Streffing, Jan; Sunny, Jaleena; Tenorio, Luiggi; Thober, Stephan; Tigerstedt, Ulf; Tinto, Oriol; Tonttila, Juha; Tuomenvirta, Heikki; Tuppi, Lauri; Van Thielen, Ginka; Vitali, Emanuele; von Hardenberg, Jost; Wagner, Ingo; Wedi, Nils; Wehner, Jan; Willner, Sven; Yepes-Arbós, Xavier; Ziemen, Florian; Zimmermann, Janos

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The Destination Earth digital twin for climate change adaptation

Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Jenni Kontkanen, Irina Sandu, Mario Acosta, Mohammed Hussam Al Turjmam, Ivan Alsina-Ferrer, Miguel Andrés-Martínez, Costanza Anerdi, Leo Arriola, Marvin Axness, Marc Batlle Martín, Peter Bauer, Tobias Becker, Daniel Beltrán, Sebastian Beyer, Hendryk Bockelmann, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Sebastien Cabaniols, Silvia Caprioli, Miguel Castrillo, Aparna Chandrasekar, Suvarchal Cheedela, Victor Correal, Emanuele Danovaro, Paolo Davini, Jussi Enkovaara, Claudia Frauen, Barbara Früh, Aina Gaya Àvila, Paolo Ghinassi, Rohit Ghosh, Supriyo Ghosh, Iker González, Katherine Grayson, Matthew Griffith, Ioan Hadade, Christopher Haine, Carl Hartick, Utz-Uwe Haus, Shane Hearne, Heikki Järvinen, Bernat Jiménez, Amal John, Marlin Juchem, Thomas Jung, Jessica Kegel, Matthias Kelbling, Kai Keller, Bruno Kinoshita, Theresa Kiszler, Daniel Klocke, Lukas Kluft, Nikolay Koldunov, Tobias Kölling, Joonas Kolstela, Luis Kornblueh, Sergey Kosukhin, Aleksander Lacima-Nadolnik, Jeisson Javier Leal Rojas, Jonni Lehtiranta, Tuomas Lunttila, Anna Luoma, Pekka Manninen, Alexey Medvedev, Sebastian Milinski, Ali Mohammed, Sebastian Müller, Devaraju Naryanappa, Natalia Nazarova, Sami Niemelä, Bimochan Niraula, Henrik Nortamo, Aleksi Nummelin, Matteo Nurisso, Pablo Ortega, Stella Paronuzzi, Xabier Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, Charles Pelletier, Carlos Peña, Suraj Polade, Himansu Kesari Pradhan, Rommel Quintanilla, Tiago Quintino, Thomas Rackow, Jouni Räisänen, Maqsood Mubarak Rajput, René Redler, Balthasar Reuter, Nuno Rocha Monteiro, Francesc Roura-Adserias, Silva Ruppert, Susan Sayed, Reiner Schnur, Tanvi Sharma, Dmitry Sidorenko, Outi Sievi-Korte, Albert Soret, Christian Steger, Bjorn Stevens, Jan Streffing, Jaleena Sunny, Luiggi Tenorio, Stephan Thober, Ulf Tigerstedt, Oriol Tinto, Juha Tonttila, Heikki Tuomenvirta, Lauri Tuppi, Ginka Van Thielen, Emanuele Vitali, Jost von Hardenberg, Ingo Wagner, Nils Wedi, Jan Wehner, Sven Willner, Xavier Yepes-Arbós, Florian Ziemen, and Janos Zimmermann

Data sets

Destination Earth Climate DT dataset (Version 1) DestinE https://doi.org/10.21957/d3f982672e

Model code and software

ICON release 2025.04 ICON partnership (DWD; MPI-M; DKRZ; KIT; C2SM) https://doi.org/10.35089/wdcc/iconrelease2025.04

FESOM2.5 source code used in nextGEMS Cycle 3 simulations with IFS-FESOM Thomas Rackow et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10225420

Source code changes to the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) for nextGEMS simulations Thomas Rackow et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10223577

NEMO release-4.0 (release 4.0) NEMO System Team https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5566313

DestinE-Climate-DT/Workflow: v5.1.2 (v5.1.2) Leo Arriola et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15607598

AQUA-core: The core framework of the Application for QUality Assessment of the Destination Earth Climate DT Matteo Nurisso et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14906075

Observation operators for climate models (OBSALL) Lauri Tuppi et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15628903

DestinE-Climate-DT/one_pass: v0.8.0 (v0.8.0) Ivan Alsina-Ferrer and Katherine Grayson https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14591827

DestinE-Climate-DT/BA: v0.5.6 - GMD paper reference release (v0.5.6) Stephan Thober et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18755253

mhm-ufz/mHM: v5.13.1 (v5.13.1) Luis Samaniego et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8279545

DestinE-Climate-DT/energy_indicators: v2.0.2 (v2.0.2) Francesc Roura-Adserias https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15609171

spolade/FWI: ClimateDT Wildfire FWI: v2.2.5 (v2.2.5) Suraj Polade and Jaan Tollander de Balsch https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15610494

chandraa2306/DestinE_paper: v1.2 (v1.2) Matteo Nurisso et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15680547

DestinE paper images repository (Version v1.3) Matteo Nurisso et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15655269

AQUA-diagnostics: The diagnostics for model evaluation of the Application for QUality Assessment of the Destination Earth Climate DT Silvia Caprioli et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17776618

Autosubmit (v4.1.14) Beltrán Mora et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15590529

Editorial statement

Destination Earth is a breakthrough in the fidelity and scale of climate simulation. The simulation data this makes available, and the recurrent simulation approach to working with the vast quantity of data generated by very high resolution climate simulations, will change this field for ever. The result will be more accurate and fine-grained climate science far better able to inform policy and decision-making than has hitherto been possible.