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NERSC Initiative for Scientific Exploration (NISE) 2011 Awards

Representing Convective Clouds in Global Circulation Models

David Romps, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Associated NERSC Project: Interactions of Clouds, Convection, and Climate (m1196)
Principal Investigator: William Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

NISE Award: 1,000,000 Hours
Award Date: March 2011

Convective clouds are very difficult to represent in GCMs in part because of their tendency to cluster together. This tendency -- called convective organization -- is influenced by the way in which clouds modify their local environment by changing the local radiation budget, surface fluxes, and atmospheric humidity. This last factor has not been quantified, and it is the goal of this project to do so.

This project will use the cloud-resolving model called Das Atmosphaerische Modell (DAM) to study the two-way interactions between small-scale clouds and the atmosphere's large-scale circulation and climate. DAM has been used extensively for the past three years on a variety of platforms, including Harvard's 10k-core Odyssey cluster and NASA's Columbia and Pleiades supercomputers.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. New potential energy surface for ozone molecule
  3. Hybrid OpenMP/MPI approach to R-matrix scattering
  4. Global Effects on the Dynamics of Plasmoids and Flux Ropes During Magnetic Reconnection
  5. MD Simulations of Liquid Water Films at the Boundary Between Gas Hydrate and Mineral Surfaces
  6. Systems Biology Knowledge Base
  7. Sparse Lanczos and GMRES Solvers in Co-Array Fortran (CAF)
  8. Numerical Study of Mode Conversion and Ion Heating in Laboratory-Relevant Plasmas
  9. Large Scale Numerical Study of Bootstrap Current in Edge Pedestal Plasma
  10. Ab initio simulation of mechanical properties of bulk metallic glass and Mo-bases alloys
  11. Improving Algorithms and Resolution for the Ocean-Atmosphere Reanalysis for Climate Applications OARCA (1850-2012)
  12. High resolution modeling to identify the location of the meltwater flood responsible for the Younger Dryas cold episode
  13. Numerical Investigations of Symmetry Breaking, Magnetism and the Pseudogap in the Three-Orbital Hubbard Model
  14. Breaking Magnetic Field Lines with Turbulence
  15. Development of CALPHAD type approach to thermal conductivity aided by first-principles phonon approach
  16. An Efficient Real-Space Approach to Calculating Auger Spectra
  17. Surface Instabilities and Subgrid Scale Models in Computational Fluid Dynamics
  18. Self-Healing of Polymer Films
  19. Computational Studies of Methanol Steam Reforming
  20. Laser Acceleration of Ions Using Few Times Critical Density Gas Targets
  21. An Integrative Strategy to Model Complex Biological Assemblies
  22. Unveiling Microbial Carbon Cycling Processes in Key U.S. Soils using "omics"
  23. Semiclassical Approaches for Clean Energy Resources
  24. Tall Tower Wind Energy Monitoring and Numerical Model Validation in Southern Nevada
  25. Threading EnergyPlus Using OpenMP
  26. First-Principles Calculation of Phonon-Assisted Optical Absorption in Indirect-Band-Gap Semiconductors.
  27. Deep Defect States and Valence Skipping in Narrow Band Gap Semiconductors
  28. Material Simulations in Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
  29. High Fidelity Study of Multiscale Multiphase Lubricant Flow in High-Speed Gear Systems
  30. Semiclassical Approaches for Clean Energy Resources
  31. First Principles Characterization of van der Waals Dispersion Interactions
  32. Simulating ETG Plasma Turbulence with Impurities
  33. Coupled Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Enzymes and Photocatalysts
  34. Proton-coupled electron transfer in photocatalysis and protein translocation in biosynthesis: Bridging lengthscales and timescales in molecular simulation
  35. Three Dimensional Models for Martensitic Phase Transformations
  36. Molecular Simulations of the Release of Phosphate and ADP from F1-ATPase to Aid in the Understanding of the Function of F1-ATPase
  37. Turbulence over Complex Terrain: A Wind Energy Perspective
  38. Performance Enhancements for Three-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms Library P3DFFT
  39. Accelerated Materials Design Towards the Materials Genome
  40. Triple Photoionization of the Li atom
  41. Implementation of C-MAD Parallel Code to Include New Physics and Capabilities for Future Particle Colliders
  42. Morphology of Young Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants from Multi-Physics Three-Dimensional Simulations
  43. Large High-Resolution Galaxy Simulation Program
  44. Towards High Performance Urban Canopy Flows
  45. Evaluating PGAS scientific graph analysis codes on the Gemini interconnect
  46. Representing Convective Clouds in Global Circulation Models
  47. Simulation of Inelastic Decoherence in Electronic Transport Through Nanoscale Structures
  48. Improving Scalability of an Eigensolver for the Kohn-Sham Electronic Structure Problem
  49. Phonon, thermodynamic and diffusion properties of lithium-ion batteries from first-principles calculations
  50. CACHE novel architecture research
  51. High performance simulation of reactive transport processes at the pore scale
  52. First-Principles Calculations of Multiferroic Oxides
  53. High resolution integration of CAM5 for extreme weather research
  54. Modeling and Simulation of High Dimensional Stochastic Multiscale PDE Systems at the Exascale
  55. Theoretical Investigation on the Properties of Energy Materials
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