To save the planet today, we need to be able to predict the future: what makes this possible is not a crystal ball but the power of supercomputers and simulation models.
Guest of the second episode of '10 alla 18', the podcast dedicated to exploring the impact of supercomputing, is Silvio Gualdi, leader of the Spoke 4 'Earth and Climate' of the ICSC - National Center for Research in High performance Computing Big Data and Quantum Computing and researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.
“The simulations of what could be possible future climates allow us to understand what the mitigation policies should be adopted in order to prevent the pressure of human activities on the climate from pushing it towards extreme scenarios”, explains Gualdi in the new episode of the podcast that tries to explain how computer processing has managed to develop an increasingly better ability to replicate, and therefore predict, the climate.
Created to make an innovative distributed supercomputing infrastructure available to researchers and companies, ICSC has a specific line, called Spoke 4, dedicated precisely to the study of the climate.
“The indications provided by climate models are already used successfully in many areas – explains Gualdi – both by political decision makers, in order to define national strategies for adaptation or reduction of emissions, and by decision makers in the financial sector and the productive world, with the goal of making business plans less vulnerable to the consequences of climate change”.
An example in this sense is the Hammon project led by Unipolsai, a company in the insurance sector, interested in assessing the risks associated with climate change.
Improving forecasting capabilities is in fact not just a scientific tool or a simple meteorological service but tools "that can be, for example, exploited by operators in the agricultural sector to quantify the quantity of wheat expected to be produced in the coming months, or further into the future, in the next few years or decades, in a certain area", concludes Gualdi.
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