EDITO-Model Lab

Underlying models for the European DIgital Twin Ocean - EDITO-Model Lab

Horizon Europe

Approval no 101093293

Start: 2023

End: 2025

EDITO-Model Lab will prepare the next generation of ocean models, complementary to Copernicus Marine Service to be integrated into the EU public infrastructure of the European Digital Twin Ocean [j1] (EDITO) that will ensure access to required input and validation data (from EMODnet, EuroGOOS, ECMWF, Copernicus Services and Sentinels satellite observations) and to high performance and distributed computing facilities (from EuroHPC for High Performance Computing and other cloud computing resources) and that will be consolidated under developments of Destination Earth (DestinE).

Objective

The objective is to make ocean knowledge available to citizens, entrepreneurs, policymakers, decision-makers and scientific experts alike, thus enabling them to become partners in knowledge generation, explore desirable futures and develop ocean management scenarios (and assemble their own twins), with the overarching goal of ensuring a safe, healthy and productive ocean.

Virtual Ocean Model Laboratory (VOML)

As an interactive and user driven initiative, EDITO-Model Lab will deliver a Virtual Ocean Model Lab including:

a core model suite including global high resolution models and coastal configurations,
downstream user toolkits,
a developer’s toolkit for a sustainable ocean.

Technological foundations and targeted applications

The Virtual Ocean Model Lab will be an interactive and co-development environment to operate models. The core model suite will be based on modelling and simulation software, artificial intelligence algorithms and specialised tools to form a new service capacity for accessing, manipulating, analysing and understanding marine information. Intermediate and downstream stakeholders will find digital tools, data and information for ‘focus applications’ that refer to the Mission Lighthouses and the sustainable Blue economy, including ‘what-if scenarios’ to find solutions to natural and man-induced hazards.

Realization of the EDITO-Model Lab

EDITO-Model Lab will be delivered in 36 months by a consortium of 14 authoritative partners, covering ocean knowledge, modelling and technological expertise.

[j1] The digital twin of the EU's oceans

Partners

Coordinator : MERCATOR OCEAN
INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI - FONDAZIONE CMCC
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE - CNRS
STICHTING DELTARES
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA - UNIBO
DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GMBH - HEREON
CINECA CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO - CINECA
BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION
SOCIB - CONSORCIO PARA EL DISENO, CONSTRUCCION, EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL SISTEMA DE OBSERVACION COSTERO DE LAS ILLES BALEARS - SOCIB
STIFTELSEN NANSEN SENTER FOR MILJOOG FJERNMALING - NERSC
ATLANTIC ASSOCIACAO PARA UM LABORATORIO COLABORATIVO DO ATLANTICO