Our world is warming, what are the implications ?

From observations we know that Earth's globally averaged near-surface air temperature is already about 1.1 degrees warmer than during the pre-industrial era, and we are certain that the warming will continue.

The big challenge today is quantifying the regional impacts and risks due to this warming, and assessing the effectiveness of potential measures to minimize climate change induced damages and deaths. This is by no means trivial. However, we are confident that a new class of computer simulations, which will only become possible with the next generation of supercomputers, will enable a step change in the ability of our simulations to simulate climate change down to regional scales.

Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, climate modeling groups and weather services have teamed up with high performance computing centers and partners from the IT industry to improve all aspects of the workflow of weather and climate modeling. By enabling global storm- and eddy resolving weather and climate simulations on the upcoming (pre-)Exascale supercomputers, we pave the way for providing policy makers with detailed climate-related risk assessments on a local level.