Extending MESMER-X: a spatially resolved Earth system model emulator for fire weather and soil moisture

Quilcaille, Yann; Gudmundsson, Lukas; Seneviratne, Sonia I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1333-2023

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1333-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1333-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Research article

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21 Dec 2023

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2023

Extending MESMER-X: a spatially resolved Earth system model emulator for fire weather and soil moisture

Yann Quilcaille, Lukas Gudmundsson, and Sonia I. Seneviratne

Data sets

Fire weather index data under historical and SSP projections in CMIP6 from 1850 to 2100 Yann Quilcaille and Fulden Batibeniz https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000583391

Model code and software

Code for "Extending MESMER-X: A spatially resolved Earth system model emulator for fire weather and soil moisture" Yann Quilcaille https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10300296

Short summary

Climate models are powerful tools, but they have high computational costs, hindering their use in exploring future climate extremes. We demonstrate MESMER-X, the only existing emulator for spatial climate extremes (heatwaves, fires, droughts) that mimics all of their relevant properties. Thanks to its negligible computational cost, MESMER-X may greatly accelerate the exploration of future climate extremes or enable the integration of climate extremes in economic and financial models.