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Session: |
Renewable Energy and Earth Systems I |
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Earth System and Related Modeling at GFDL |
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Chair: |
Steven W. Hammond (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) |
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Tuesday, November 18, 10:30AM - 11:15AM |
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Rm #: |
16-18 |
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Speaker(s)/Author(s): |
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Ants Leetmaa (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) |
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Description: |
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The challenges of building increasingly interdisciplinary Earth system models, exploring high resolution simulations of the atmosphere and ocean to reduce climate uncertainties, and the need to maximize the performance of the models on a variety of computer architectures (especially those utilizing upwards of thousands of processors) necessitates a new and highly advanced program structure. This structure allows the physical, chemical and biological scientists to focus on implementing their specific model components. Software engineers then design and implement the associated infrastructure and superstructure allowing for a seamless linkage of the various scientific components. The GFDL version of this programming structure is the Flexible Modeling System. Models utilizing FMS are used for GFDL’s climate projection studies. Additional FMS models include a very high-resolution global atmospheric model for hurricane research and process studies. Examples will be shown of both the Earth System model, as well as, high resolution ocean (1/6 degree) and atmosphere (10Km to 12Km non-hydrostatic with explicit convection).
GFDL has also entered into a new working relationship with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the university community, NASA and the NOAA Weather Service to develop the next generation community-wide version of FMS. This new software system is called the Earth System Modeling Framework and is being developed in collaboration with scientists and engineers throughout Europe, who are working toward similar goals. |
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