ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
Project UPSCALE: Counting the Storms
Principal Investigator:
Pier Luigi Vidale
Affiliation:
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading U.K.
Local Project ID:
UPSCALE
HPC Platform used:
Hermit of HLRS
Date published:
Climate related high-impact events, such as tropical cyclones and high-latitude storms, and their associated risks, are a major concern for society. A team of climate scientists under Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale are using the supercomputing capabilities of GCS for compute-intensive high-resolution simulations in order to increase the fidelity of global climate simulations and provide quantitative information about the frequency of high-impact events and their risks. The research activity comprises a large series of experiments with each experiment dynamically simulating 27 years of both current and future climates. The gained insight will help improve the understanding of weather and climate risks, and enhance confidence in their changes with climate change.
Snapshot of a tropical cyclone making landfall in Louisiana and a „companion“ extra-tropical cyclone in the West Atlantic ocean, moving to the N-NW. Both storms were simulated by a Global Climate Model (HadGEM3-A) at a resolution of N512 (~25 km) and had originally developed in the tropical Atlantic ocean. Colours show humidity with winds shown as vectors, coloured by local temperature at 500 mb (top left), 200 mb (top right), 925 mb (bottom left) and 850 mb (bottom right). © University of Reading
Full article in inSiDE, Vol. 10 No. 1
This project was made possible through PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) granting computing time on HLRS HPC system Hermit.
Scientific Contact
Prof. Pier Luigi Vidale
Department of Meteorology - University of Reading
PO Box 243, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB (United Kingdom)
e-mail: p.l.vidale [@] reading.ac.uk
HLRS project ID: UPSCALE
September 2013