Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet
ethz.ch- In the next ten years, scientists from the “Destination Earth” initiative will be building a highly accurate digital twin model of Earth.
- Apart from natural observation data, the model will also include a representation of human activity’s continued impact on Earth.
- The goal - enable policymakers and builders to make informed long-term decisions regarding development, water and food supplies, wind/solar plants, and more.
- Scientists state that computer science needs to merge with earth sciences to make this happen, and advanced computing technology and algorithms will be needed.
- They estimate that supercomputers based on GPUs would be best, and modelling Earth’s twin at 1km resolution would take 20,000 GPUs at around 20 Megawatts.

on February 26, 2021