Climate Informatics 2025

Plenary Talk

The Pressing climate emergency and the imperative to advance climate modelling

Saulo Ribeiro de Freitas

on  Mo, 9:20 ! Livein  Auditoriumfor  60min

The increasing frequency of extreme meteorological and climatic events due to climate change has adversely impacted public health, the economy, and societal security. Predicting weather across various scales represents one of humanity’s most significant technical and scientific challenges. Several countries have undertaken efforts to tackle this challenge, demonstrating the importance of having real-time and reliable information about current and future atmospheric conditions.

This talk introduces the MONAN program (Model for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Prediction). MONAN is a Brazilian community program led by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) that proposes a new paradigm on focus and organization for modeling the Earth System to bring the country to the state-of-the-art in weather, climate, and environmental forecasting.

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