The implementation of many policies on the environment, climate, public health, and other societal challeges often involves the analysis of different scenarios for interventions or possible events. Advances in simulation methods – physical and data-driven – as well as simulation tools offer significant potential for making investigations more realistic, more accessible, or more tractable. At the same time, high-performance computing infrastructures like the EuroHPC systems allow scaling such analyses to global scales at sufficiently high resolutions. This is, for example, a key driver underpinning the European Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative, that aims to create a “digital twin” of the Earth System supporting exactly those kinds of applications in a variety of sectors.
This session explores how developments of novel applications that exploit [CV1.1]information from large-scale Earth System Models can be exploited to develop practical applications supporting policy implementation at regional and local level. Contributions are invited in the domains of climate adaptation, disaster risk management, or environmental policies, that present practical applications of interactive simulations in climate and sustainability planning. A key emphasis will be on demonstrating and quantifying the added value of tailored and/or interactive simulations for policy implementation.