Putting Regional Climate Prediction in Reach

Author

Wolf, Laura ; Collins, Jim

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2015

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Developing the capability to project how climate change will affect a particular region--any region--on Earth is a high-performance computing problem with enormous economic and health impacts. Techniques to resolve regional-scale features in global climate models are being developed and validated on leadership computing systems. In time, these regional-scale-resolving global climate models will arm local and state decision makers with the information needed to prepare for both short- and long-term impacts of climate change.

Keywords

climatology; decision making; environmental science computing; geophysics computing; parallel processing; Earth; climate change; health impacts; high-performance computing problem; leadership computing systems; local decision makers; regional climate prediction; regional-scale features; regional-scale-resolving global climate models; state decision makers; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Data models; Meteorology; Numerical models; Predictive models; Spatial resolution; HPC; climate models; high-performance computing; leadership; scientific computing; supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2015.101

Filename

7208759