24.03.2023 Climate change and nutrient fluctuations disrupt networks in lakes An international team of researchers led by Eawag analysed a unique data set from ten Swisslakes. With the help of the…
22.11.2021 Climate scientists’ successfully simulate snow effects on polar ice Predicting how fast the polar ice layers in the Arctic and Antarctic will melt is as relevant as it is complex — partly…
06.08.2021 New, high-resolution models merge weather and climate Torrential rain and flooding have dominated the weather over the past few weeks. To forecast these weather events with…
05.05.2021 Strength of carbon sink in the Southern Ocean depends on salinity The Southern Ocean dominates the oceanic uptake of human-made carbon dioxide (CO2). How much CO2 it can store depends on…
23.02.2021 Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet A group of European scientists and experts are creating a digital twin of the Earth that is intended to support…
29.10.2020 Soot particles influence global warming more than previously assumed A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has for the first time used simulations on the CSCS supercomputer "Piz Daint" to…
12.10.2020 Is afforestation in any case climate-friendly? Because trees absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, some scientists see reforestation as a possible measure to…
28.09.2020 Increased heat waves in the oceans Heatwaves in the oceans have become more than 20 times more frequent. This is shown by the latest statistical analyses…
08.09.2020 Climate simulations reach the next level of precision Despite decades of research, current climate models still contain a degree of uncertainty that hampers accurate…
01.07.2020 HPC simulations could guide Swiss toward safer geothermal energy Researchers from the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) and ETH Zurich are working with the Swiss National Supercomputing…
03.03.2020 CO2 tracking in space CO2 concentrations in the air continue to rise rapidly, and a rapid reduction in man-made emissions is becoming…
06.11.2018 An ice age lasting 115,000 years in two minutes An international research team used a computer model to reconstruct the history of glaciation in the Alps, visualising…
15.08.2018 “We cannot definitively say which physical processes are dominant or relevant in an earthquake.” Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, simulates earthquake…
19.07.2017 Scientists use "Piz Daint" simulations to track heavy summer precipitation from the Mediterranean Low-pressure weather systems that move northwards in the summer from Italy to central Europe bring with them dreaded…
12.06.2017 Convection-resolving simulation over Europe When the hybrid supercomputer “Piz Daint” came online in 2014, one of the first science projects that it ran was a…
