The IT Center for Science (CSC, Finland, https://www.csc.fi) provides opportunities for initiating and expanding collaboration between Finnish and international universities/ organizations in research and educational projects employing CSC’s computing infrastructure, computing resources, storage facilities, etc.  Such opportunity is realised in a form of High-Performance-Computing (HPC) projects.

In particular, activities on the PEEX Modelling Platform (PEEX-MP) research and development are realised through HPC projects in a field of the Earth Sciences and Environment. Three of such research projects with employing of the Enviro-HIRLAM (Environment-HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model; https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multi-scale-modelling/enviro-hirlam) seamless/online integrated multi-scales and -processes modelling system allow to strengthen, expand and improve international collaboration among the PEEX Partners.

New CSC’s HPC research projects started  in recent months are the following: (4) “Integrated Systems and Analysis of URBan mobility for climate-neutral and sustainable cities in Europe” (in collaboration with Dr. Maher Sahyoun, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark); (5) “Assessment of the current state of Atmospheric Air in the Atyrau region (Republic of Kazakhstan) in the Sustainable Development Context” (in collaboration with young researcher Gulnur Musralinova, PhD student at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, the Republic of Kazakhstan); and (6) “Seamless Modelling of AtmospheRic state and composition under influence of Helsinki and other cities in the BalTic Sea region” (in collaboration with Dr.  Georgii Nerobelov at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany).

More details about these research are at https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/index.php/portfolio-items/mp-at-csc, where proposals’ short summaries can be found.

Text by: Alexander Mahura, Univ Helsinki – INAR