EarthNet2021: A novel large-scale dataset and challenge for forecasting localized climate impacts

Understand

Climate change is global, yet its concrete impacts can strongly vary between different locations in the same region.

• Seasonal weather forecasts currently operate at the mesoscale (> 1 km).
• For more targeted mitigation and adaptation, modelling impacts to < 100 m is needed.
• Yet, the relationship between driving variables and Earth's surface at such local scales remains unresolved by current physical models.