KlimaCampus Kolloquium: Perspectives on Digital Twin Earth
Digital twins are a hype in many scientific domains. A digital twin of the Earth is envisaged in leading programs, such as Europe’s Destination Earth. While some see this as a continuous development towards km-scale global non-hydrostatic modelling enabled by increasing computational capabilities, others regard this as paradigmatic leading to fundamental new workflows in weather and climate research and services. I will present a perspective on the latter and will discuss digital twins in the weather and climate domain related to emerging digital technologies and data sciences up to considerations from social sciences and humanities.
About Wilco Hazeleger:
Wilco Hazeleger is dean of the Faculty of Geosciences and professor of Climate System Science at Utrecht University. He is integrally responsible for research, education, and operations of the faculty. The faculty has a unique combination of expertise in natural and social sciences contributing to sustainability challenges.
Hazeleger studied meteorology at Wageningen University and Reading University (UK). He obtained his PhD in physical oceanography from Utrecht University in 1999. He then worked at Columbia University and at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). His research focuses on climate dynamics, climate scenarios, climate adaptation and digitization. He was also professor of Climate Dynamics at Wageningen University. From 2014 to 2019 he was director of the Netherlands eScience Center and focused on the application of digital technology and data science in all scientific domains. In 2019 he was appointed as dean of the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University.
Date
22.06.2023
Time
15:15 h
Place
- Bundesstr. 53, room 022/023
- Seminar Room 022/023, Ground Floor, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Hamburg