DOE OSTI · 1184305
Final Project Report
Abstract
Most climate models are currently run with grid spacings of around 100km, which, with today’s computing power, allows for long (up to 1000 year) simulations, or ensembles of simulations to explore climate change and variability. However this grid spacing does not resolve important components of the weather/climate system such as atmospheric fronts and mesoscale systems, and ocean boundary currents and eddies. The overall aim of this project has been to look at the effect of these small-scale features on the weather/climate system using a suite of high and low resolution climate models, idealized models and observations. This project was only possible due to the highly scalable aspect of the CAM Spectral Element dynamical core, and the significant resources allocated at Yellowstone and NERSC for which we are grateful.
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Small, R. Justin, Bryan, Frank, Tribbia, Joseph, Park, Sungsu, Dennis, John, Saravanan, R., Schneider, Niklas, Kwon, Young-Oh. 2015-06-01. Final Project Report. https://doi.org/10.2172/1184305
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