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DT-GEO
Horizon Europe research project, coordinated by Geosciences Barcelona (CSIC), building twelve digital twin components for earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and human-induced seismicity, tested at thirteen sites, as a pre-operational prototype for Destination Earth.
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DT-GEO stands for Digital Twin for GEOphysical Extremes.1 Its simulation tools cover earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and earthquakes caused by human activity such as geothermal energy projects and mining.1,3 Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN, part of the Spanish National Research Council CSIC) coordinates it, and Arnau Folch is project leader.5 It brings together 26 research institutions, including ETH Zürich, Italy's INGV and the Icelandic Meteorological Office.2,5 Funding comes from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement 101058129.1
Each of the twelve "digital twin components" bundles simulation code, AI methods and live data feeds for one kind of question.4 Four deal with volcanoes: unrest, ash clouds and fallout, lava flows, and gases.3 One does probabilistic tsunami forecasting.3 Six cover earthquakes over long and short time scales, and one forecasts human-induced seismicity.3 The components are meant for early warning, hazard assessment and urgent computing (running simulations at short notice during an emergency) on EuroHPC, Europe's shared supercomputers.3,4 Outputs are checked against the FAIR data standards (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and work with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).1,3
The components are tested at thirteen site demonstrators:3,4
- Volcanoes: Etna in Italy, and Grímsvötn and Fagradalsfjall in Iceland.
- Tsunamis: the Mediterranean coast as a whole, eastern Sicily, the Chilean coast and the eastern Honshu coast of Japan. Most of this work re-runs past events such as the 2011 Tohoku tsunami.4
- Earthquakes: the wider Euro-Mediterranean region, the central Apennines and the Alto-Tiberina fault in Italy, the Bedretto underground laboratory in Switzerland, and the Alps.
- Induced seismicity: a geothermal site in Strasbourg, France, and the KGHM copper mine in Poland.3
The aim is a pre-operational prototype ready to be integrated into Destination Earth, the European effort to build a high-precision digital model of the Earth.1,2 Observations collected by DT-GEO partners are to be fed into the DestinE twin to make it more accurate.2 Published deliverables include first and second software releases and a sequence of reports, several marked as submitted.6
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