A service for the national ESM community
Global environmental change requires a step change in our capability to simulate, understand, and predict the Earth system and its impact on society. Earth system modelling (ESM) can benefit tremendously from access to exascale high-performance computing (HPC), expected to be available to the European and German communities in the mid-2020s.
Our vision is to create a world-leading, multiscale, seamless Earth system modelling system, usable in research, operational applications, training, and education. The modelling system considers German expertise, does not exclude international components but avoids dependencies and has a fit-for-purpose transparent governance structure.
To provide such a system, we need to…
- Share national resources and accelerate scientific and technological developments
- Establish a new level of sustainable institutional collaboration to develop this system
- Build a flexible infrastructure enabling configurations that allow resolution, length of simulation, complexity, and ensemble size to be tailored to a specific scientific question or application.
The natESM project receives fundings from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).