Visualization and Analysis Tools for Ultrascale Climate Data

• Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
• Main Author: Williams, Dean N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU (American Geophysical Union) 2014
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/32944/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/32944/1/eost2014EO420002.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014EO420002

Increasingly large climate model simulations are enhancing our understanding of the processes and causes of anthropogenic climate change, thanks to very large public investments in high-performance computing at national and international institutions. Various climate models implement mathematical approximations of nature in different ways, which are often based on differing computational grids. These complex, parallelized coupled system codes combine numerous complex submodels (ocean, atmosphere, land, biosphere, sea ice, land ice, etc.) that represent components of the larger complex climate system.