[Colloquium] Just About To Begin! - Seminar Announcement: Climate Modeling as a Data Intensive Science

[Kristi Hamilton]

Computation Institute Presentation - Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)

Speaker: Robert Jacob,Computational Climate Scientist, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Tanu Malik 
Date: November 9, 2012
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue

Climate Modeling as a Data Intensive Science

ABSTRACT:
Climate models are among the most demanding applications in scientific high performance computing (HPC). The Earth's climate can not be simulated directly. Instead, we simulate years of global weather and then perform statistics on the output. While climate models have benefited from a great deal of effort to adapt them to high performance computing, the tools for analyzing the output have received little attention. The size of the output from models is now reaching the point where the analysis tools are no longer adequate. Fortunately, there are existing HPC libraries that can help fill that gap.

BIO:
Robert Jacob is a Computational Climate Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science division and a fellow in the Argonne-University of Chicago Computation Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Throughout his career, he has been strongly involved in the development and application of climate models. He is the lead developer of the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model, a fully coupled climate model, and a co-developer of the Model Coupling Toolkit and the coupler for the DOE/NSF Community Earth System Model.


Information: Please note the CI-DLS talk is scheduled from 2:00pm-3:00pm this week Refreshments will be served