An alliance to deal with future climate challenges. Météo-France and the CNRS are launching a new 8-year research program on Wednesday to improve knowledge and tools related to climate impacts and risks.
Over the past few decades, the scientific community has contributed robust knowledge about the magnitude of climate change and the role that greenhouse gases play in it. In his latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underlined the interest of developing decision support tools, particularly at the local level, in the implementation of climate actions.
“Climate science still needs to improve”
This is precisely one of the purposes of the TRACCS program, funded to the tune of 51 million over 8 years by France 2030. This program will aim in particular to accelerate the development of already existing climate models designed by France to preserve their relevance and performance while improving the representation of local phenomena and increasing the capacities of current models to offer more concrete solutions at the scale of each territory.
Ultimately, the main objective will be to “enable the development of climate services adapted to needs and based on the most solid scientific knowledge to anticipate the impacts of climate change and adapt effectively to its local, current and future manifestations, such as as the rising waters, drought and the increase in extreme phenomena”, indicates Météo-France in a press release.
“Even though much knowledge has been accumulated on the causes and severity of the situation, climate science still needs to improve, especially in terms of producing knowledge, data and information on local manifestations of climate change. climate”, underlines for its part the CNRS. The other aim of this research will be to optimize the energy consumption of climate simulations, currently carried out with very energy-intensive supercomputers.