ECMWF, as the Entrusted Entity for the Destination Earth Programme (DestinE), issued a contract for the provision of the On-demand Extremes Digital Twin.

The objective of the Agreement is to deliver a pre-operational capability for a flexible, configurable, European monitoring and prediction framework providing decision-making support at continental, country, coastline, catchment and city scales in response to meteorological, hydrological and air quality extremes. This capability is to combine weather, hydrology and air-quality observation and simulation capabilities at a qualitatively new level of on-demand information discovery, also providing uncertainty quantification. The work will demonstrate theco-design with selected use-cases showing societal adaptation and mitigation options for dealing with the impacts of extreme events. The work will interface with ECMWF’s technological developments on the digital twin engine as required, to interface with the DestinE platform components such as the data lake and the core service platform.