Title :
Putting Regional Climate Prediction in Reach
Author :
Wolf, Laura ; Collins, Jim
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;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2015.101
