IN31F:
Supercomputing for Geoscience: Success Stories from Yellowstone and Other Petascale Systems I

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Session ID#: 17079

Session Description:
Geoscience has advanced dramatically in the past 50 years by exploiting supercomputers. For example, the Yellowstone supercomputer has been exclusively dedicated to the geosciences, and has contributed two billion core hours to help scientists answer questions about the solar dynamo and photosphere, learn about climate predictability and make predictions of future climate, understand turbulence, and study space and global weather. Yellowstone is operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research with funding from the National Science Foundation, and has served a global community of 2,500 space physicists, climate dynamics researchers, mesoscale meteorologists, and geologists. This session illustrates the value of high performance computing resources dedicated to geoscience, showcasing computational advances in understanding anthropogenic climate change and associated impacts, in modeling the Sun and predicting coronal mass ejections, in improving severe weather forecasts, and in finding new sources of energy, and looks at how future supercomputers might inform scientific discovery.
Primary Convener:  James W Hurrell, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  James L Kinter, George Mason University Fairfax, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States, Douglas W Nychka, Colorado School of Mines, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Golden, United States and Marijke Unger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  James W Hurrell, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Marijke Unger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and James L Kinter, George Mason University Fairfax, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marijke Unger, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0560 Numerical solutions [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
1952 Modeling [INFORMATICS]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7513 Coronal mass ejections [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The CESM Large Ensemble Project: Inspiring New Ideas and Understanding (Invited) (122437)
Jennifer E Kay, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States and CESM Large Ensemble Planners listed in Kay et al. 2015
NCAR’s Experimental Real-time Convection-allowing Ensemble Prediction System (129055)
Craig S Schwartz1, Glen S Romine2, Ryan Sobash1 and Kathryn Fossell3, (1)NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
High resolution CESM/WACCM simulations of gravity waves enabled by NWSC Yellowstone (136463)
Hanli Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Using Yellowstone to provide end-to-end capability in support of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) (178363)
J F Lamarque, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Large-Scale Numerical Simulations of Ocean and Tidal Channel Boundary Layers (181786)
Peter Hamlington, Univ of Colorado, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Katherine Smith, Univ of Colorado, Mechanical Egnineering, Boulder, CO, United States, Luke P Van Roekel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Brown University, Providence, United States and Peter P Sullivan, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Sampling Variability and the Changing ENSO-Monsoon Relationship (183167)
Benjamin Cash, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Insights into Tornadoes and Hurricanes from High-Resolution Numerical Simulations (184408)
George H Bryan1, Joseph Cione2, Nathan Dahl3, Evan Kalina4, Julie K Lundquist5, David S Nolan3, Richard Rotunno6, Daniel P Stern7 and Rochelle Worsnop8, (1)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (4)Previously with NOAA, OAR/GSL, CIRES and Developmental Testbed Center (DTC), Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (8)CIRES, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
High Performance Computing for Modeling Wind Farms and Their Impact (Invited) (194528)
Jonathan W Naughton, Dimitri Mavriplis and Michael K Stoellinger, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States

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