Edito

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

General notes

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. As an interactive and user driven initiative, EDITO-Model Lab delivers a Virtual Ocean Model Lab (VOML) including:

1. a core model suite including global high-resolution models and coastal configurations,
2. downstream user toolkits and
3. a developer’s toolkit for a sustainable ocean. EDITO core model suite is targeted to be based on modelling and simulation software, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and specialised tools to form a new service capacity for accessing, manipulating, analysing and understanding marine information.

CINECA plays a big role in the project. In particular: (1) fostering the HPC developments/optimization and porting of the core model suite to accelerated architectures (like Leonardo), (2) co-designing the VOML and (3)  guarantee the Technical support for the EDITO-Model Lab workflows.