February 2022

The supercomputer of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), MareNostrum 4, offers daily forecasts to the scientific committee of the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (PEVOLCA) on the movements that the emissions arising from the Cumbre Vieja volcano will have. These forecasts come from a collaboration between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and BSC, and are intended to help the authorities in making decisions aimed at limiting the damage caused by the eruption.

Read more on the BSC website.

A real exercise was conducted on December 10, 2021 to test a potential service on volcanic ash forecasts developed by the EU-funded project, ChEESE Center of Excellence (CoE). The exercise, organised in cooperation with the Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), was made possible thanks to the supercomputing resources provided by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which allowed the delivery of higher-resolution ensemble-based deterministic and probabilistic products under the strict time constraints imposed by this urgent computing problem.

Go to the BSC website to learn more.