Explainer | 2025

Storyboard: Carlo Palazzari
Animation: Carlo Palazzari
Backgrounds: Friedrich Schäper
Client: design & data

In this new episode, Rosa delves deeper into the cutting-edge world of Digital Twins, focusing on the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT). After experiencing a heatwave firsthand, she becomes curious about how technology can help societies better adapt and prepare to extreme weather events and consequences of climate change. Her journey takes her to urban planners and water managers, professionals on the frontlines of climate adaptation, who share their challenges in protecting cities from rising temperatures and increasing flood risks. The episode explores how the Climate DT can support these efforts by harnessing high-resolution climate models, next-generation supercomputers, innovative digital technologies and flexible workflows. It helps understand how the Climate DT can be applied in real-world scenarios, from helping cities mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect to preparing for extreme flooding. With the ability to simulate future climate conditions and “what-if” scenarios at an unprecedented scale, it offers a powerful tool for building resilience and safeguarding communities.

In the third episode, Rosa continues her exploration of some of DestinE’s key elements. After uncovering the role of Artificial Intelligence and the Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin in previous episodes, she now turns to the Digital Twin Engine. When Rosa meets a solar energy manager in search of precise, tailored data, she discovers how the DT Engine serves as a central component of DestinE, operating at multiple levels within this complex system. From orchestrating a unified simulation workflow across various EuroHPC supercomputers to enabling efficient AI training, the Digital Twin Engine proves essential to DestinE’s operations. Rosa also learns how it helps users extract exactly the data they need from the vast outputs generated by digital twins.