Colab+Atlantic and DeltaTwin® Service

+Atlantic CoLAB is a collaborative laboratory for the Atlantic Ocean which conceives and provides products and services related to ocean sustainabilityn marine science, marine ecosystem’s health, climate change… The team provided simplified models like a temperature forecast in Lisbon to launch on DeltaTwin Service.

European cities are increasingly being exposed to severe heatwaves (HW), and climate change prospects point to its aggravation in the coming decades. In addition, its impacts may be emphasised by the growing trend of urban sprawl and an ageing population. Accordingly, there is a need to pinpoint the locations where people are relatively more exposed to the excess heat, which can lead to several health impacts such as dehydration, cerebrovascular accidents or thrombogenesis.

While the forecasts resolve the regional physical processes, the Machine Learning (ML) goal is to adjust its bias to the specificities of the urban locations, by accurately predicting the local urban heat island effect, as well as the potential for green infrastructure cooling, at the neighbourhood scale.

DeltaTwin® enables the deployment and management of their algorithm, providing the computational infrastructure and services needed to run these predictive models efficiently and at scale.

Example of generated artifact

In this case, the map depicts the annual mean of the monthly mean air temperature parameter (BIO01) over a sequence of alternative 20-year periods :