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SUMMARY:The IPCC Assessment Report Six: modelling contributions from the C
 HPC
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francois Engelbrecht (Global Change Institute\, Univ
 ersity of the Witwatersrand)\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chang
 e (IPCC) Assessment Report Six (AR6) Working Group I (WGI) report\, releas
 ed in August 2021\, is widely regarded as the most influential and compreh
 ensive report on climate change composed to date. The report was described
  as a 'code red' for humanity by the United Nations Secretary General\, an
 d served as a direct input to the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) i
 n November 2021. African climate science is well represented in the report
 \, including several modelling papers on the projected climate change futu
 res of the African continent. The CHPC and most recently its Lengau cluste
 r played a critical role and in fact made feasible the completion of sever
 al computationally expensive simulations that underpinned several papers r
 eferenced by the IPCC AR6. This talk will review those papers\, and their 
 significance. Future directions in Earth System Modelling will also be dis
 cussed\, in the context of convection permitting models and exascale compu
 ting\, and the role of the CHPC in ensuring that South African climate mod
 elling remains internationally competitive will be emphasized.\n\nhttps://
 events.chpc.ac.za/event/98/contributions/1512/
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URL:https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/98/contributions/1512/
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